What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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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!"
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DRM Ribs. The Salmonella will not die until you pay for Traeger's $19 a month subscription
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...The sort of grill I will never buy.
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semi related
Hacking My Smart Grill - Intercepting SSL to AWS Services via Firmware Modification ~> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tH6VU6chEc
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You can also just get a normal smoker and a wireless thermometer that works with RF, which has a range of like 700-1000ft, and while it has some theoretical security flaws it results in a situation that is infinitely more secure than a WiFi/app situation. Even if someone bothered to sniff the rf traffic what are they going to do, see the temperature of your brisket? Oh no
Additionally this way the smoker is basically invincible because it’s not digital and as long as you don’t let it rust out it will last forever. If you somehow break the thermometer it’s like $30 to replace but I guarantee you can find models that are somewhat repairable and have user replaceable batteries, which guarantee this thing doesn’t
wrote last edited by [email protected]You make some good points.
I live a mile and a half from the ocean and run my smoker for long periods. It's really nice to monitor and change the temp while I'm drinking the beer you refer to from the sand. I make a few quick runs back up the hill to tend to things, but mostly I'm free to be elsewhere for the 12-ish hours the smoker is running. It's really nice, not a hard requirement, but really convenient.
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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.
!ping
Fish in the area!ping
Fish on hook
Tap REEL to begin reeling!ping
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