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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Alarm is going to have to be pretty loud for me to hear it many miles away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The notification on your phone or whatever also isn't super useful if you're many miles away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure it is. I have family friends and neighbors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

K, but if you're expecting someone to be at your home to immediately inspect your malfunctioning refrigerator, then we're back to an audible alarm being just as good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're making up a hypothetical situation where it might not work. I've literally done this and my brother saved hundreds of dollars of food from spoiling while I was on vacation by moving it to his fridge/freezer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad it worked out for you in that one instance, but I'm not worried enough about my fridge breaking down to where I need to constantly monitor it remotely. Refrigerators are an incredibly old, well developed, reliable technology. The added hassle of an Internet connection isn't worth it to me. If it is to you then fine, but your single anecdote is worth about as much as my hypotheticals, unless we're talking about some novel, untested refrigeration technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My anecdote at least happened. Your hypothetical by definition never did. The internet connection I haven't thought about since I installed the fridge. Not sure where the hassle is.

Also I don't understand why you think refrigerators are incredibly reliable. Compressor pumps and start capacitors are damn near consumables now days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've never experienced any critical part of a refrigerator break in my >30 years on this earth. Sorry you can't say the same.

The hassle isn't just in connecting it to the Wi-Fi, it's in securing and monitoring it to ensure it stays secure, so that I'm not giving people a foothold into my home network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In my 40 years on earth it's happened to me 3 times. 2 times the food was lost. The most recent time I saved the food because I knew about it and could ask someone for help. Progress.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, honestly I don't want to have to stress about something that can't be fixed and might otherwise ruin a day out or vacation.

If my dog dies don't tell me till I'm back from vacation kinda thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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