What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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ok but why aren't you outside with a beer..pretty sure that's a part of the meat smokers law
Not for a brisket though. I’m too old to stay up that long.
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ok but why aren't you outside with a beer..pretty sure that's a part of the meat smokers law
Some people also think the point of fishing is to catch fish and not to chill out by the bay with some light beers.
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I will never own a grill that has to connect to wifi. In fact, I actively avoid any appliance that adds unnecessary IOT functionality.
That was me until HomeAssistant and ESPHome
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I mean that's what I do when it's something small, but when it's something that takes 10+ hours, that's a lot of beer and standing.
Though right now I just have an alarm to check it every half hour. Considering wiring up something with an arduino and appifying my meat without any proprietary tech.
I have a non digital charcoal kettle, and I found good options for blowers and temp control in China.
It's a simple fitting that I only use doing very long cooks. Saves all the mucking around with the official stuff
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I wonder how long it takes for the firmware update to take place. A few minutes? An hour?
I recognize the community I’m in rn. Just curious about how long it actually takes. I doubt it takes very long, or happens very often.
In a similar vein was the location of the charging port on the Apple mouse. Sure it seems asinine, but you only charge it like once a month, so it really isn’t an actual issue. It was just an excuse to hate on Apple products.
wrote last edited by [email protected]They could have made it possible for the user to choose when to update, for example after using it. Apple could have just stuck the port in front and let people charge while using the mouse. Both have no downsides
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OK, that seems smart. But why would it need updates? Been in IT 30-years, I get updates, but something that simple should have been hammered out before it left the factory.
For that and fear the company getting bored and pulling the plug on servers, leaving me with a paperweight, is why I didn't get much into the IoT stuff.
One time I bought some under armor shoes with bluetooth. They would connect to my phone and an app would take measurements on my stride and angle of my foot in my runs. At some point they decided to make the app a subscription. They wanted a whole $15/mo! I decided to just run like a caveman instead.
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What are the chances they shipped it on Thanksgiving vs Thanksgiving being the first time in a while the user turned it on?
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Not to defend this practice but my guess is that the firmware was released before Thanksgiving, but the owner didn't turn on the grill until Thanksgiving, which is when the grill picked up the firmware.
Guy is still an idiot for buying a device that REQUIRES Internet access.
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Ah hell yes. Fire 2.0 finally dropped.
Funny, they actually call the wireless features WiFire.
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Because I live in Texas and being outside in the summer for extended periods is dangerous.
Seems like we shouldn't encourage people to live in locations where being outside for 6 months of the year is hazardous
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Seems like we shouldn't encourage people to live in locations where being outside for 6 months of the year is hazardous
That's pretty much everywhere
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Some people also think the point of fishing is to catch fish and not to chill out by the bay with some light beers.
It can be both, but at least if i don't catch any fish I'll catch a good buzz
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Imagine a grill without the latest firewall
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That was me until HomeAssistant and ESPHome
At least with ESPHome and other local-only devices they only update when you actually tell them to update.
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For that and fear the company getting bored and pulling the plug on servers, leaving me with a paperweight, is why I didn't get much into the IoT stuff.
One time I bought some under armor shoes with bluetooth. They would connect to my phone and an app would take measurements on my stride and angle of my foot in my runs. At some point they decided to make the app a subscription. They wanted a whole $15/mo! I decided to just run like a caveman instead.
I see it this way: If there are enough dumbasses willing to pay, go for it. I choose not to participate. OTOH, idiots paying subscriptions can hurt us all through enshittification.
On Nextdoor.com I brought it up that Trump's admin was trashing NOAA and the NWS, which we literally live and die by in Florida. One woman was quite proud to pay $15 for her Accuweather app. "And where do you think they get their data?"
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That was me until HomeAssistant and ESPHome
Oh shit, I didn't know about ESPhome. There goes my free time!
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What are the chances they shipped it on Thanksgiving vs Thanksgiving being the first time in a while the user turned it on?
This, but why does it need a firmware update and why couldn't it be setup to update on shutdown rather then power on?
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It can be both, but at least if i don't catch any fish I'll catch a good buzz
Fair enough
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I see it this way: If there are enough dumbasses willing to pay, go for it. I choose not to participate. OTOH, idiots paying subscriptions can hurt us all through enshittification.
On Nextdoor.com I brought it up that Trump's admin was trashing NOAA and the NWS, which we literally live and die by in Florida. One woman was quite proud to pay $15 for her Accuweather app. "And where do you think they get their data?"
One woman was quite proud to pay $15 for her Accuweather app
Damn these smart capitalists figured out how to get a weather satellite into space for that cheap? No wonder socialism failed/s
For real tho it reminds me of that joke about libertarians being like cats. Also $15/mo feels way to high for weather updates
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I will never own a grill that has to connect to wifi. In fact, I actively avoid any appliance that adds unnecessary IOT functionality.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know, right? Why send my BBQ data to the cloud when I can just cook with a handful of GPUs, locally? To start the grill you just ask the animated waifu to dance and sing a random, AI-generated song that matches your taste in music. Then the fans spin up and send scrumptious GPU heat into the grill, cooking up a delicious hallucination where your animated waifu sings, "That looks yummy! Yummy yummy yummy! Hai hai hai!"
