Technology needs to downgrade some things that went in the wrong direction

Its a load of nonsense. if you need access to a recipe i'm pretty sure most households these days have some form of tablet or laptop thus making the screen on the fridge immediately redundant.

Its gimmicky BS thats probably an interesting novelty for a few days and then its forgotten.

What happens if it breaks? Or refuses to update or develops any number of potential software / hardware issues … Could you really be arsed with that additional complexity built into your fridge? …

And now are at the point of talking fridges. Talking fridges....…

Congratulations, thats what advancing so far that technology becomes a parody of what it should be.

There was a "demand" to scroll through screens to turn up or down heated seats.That kind of sh1te is being phased out now,I think most people are happy about that.

We spend enough time on screens.

Ai uses an incredible amount of power and water so that it can cool the data centers every phone and windows PC laptop will have ai built In do we really need large to touch screens in cars. Students are using ai to write essays and programers use it to write programs

They are building new data centers in states with low water supplys this is not going to work out well

Whilst some tech/items can go further, should it is a question that must be asked.

Some items/tech can also just not be improved or advanced anymore. A fridge is a box that keeps things cold, how much better can we make it? Pencils and pens can hardly become more advanced now can they? Freezers too.

This and Facebook are the only social media I have, Social media seems to have been an outlet for those with mental health issues. I was looking at a recipe online recently, and one of the comments was that they hoped the guy doing the cooking was taken out and murdered. The issue seemed to be that the guy doing the cooking is rich, a creepy comment on a local forum, and the person saying it's their depression. I dont know if there is any way to fix that or any way to keep people with issues away from social media.

Depression or mental health issues do not make anyone do anything on social media it's an excuse.

I have to admit, even though I love new technology, everything being smart these days does drive me nuts. Apparently the washing machine and dryer I bought a few years ago are smart. I put stuff in them, turn a dial and that's as far as I've gotten.

The over reliance on apps is another big one. One of my hobbies has always been vintage tech..can't really see that as a thing of the future when you've loads of older items relying on apps that don't exist anymore. In fact I've some Belkin smart plugs from 6 or 7 years ago now that won't work with any of the apps.

The Windows 11 upgrade issues are also wreaking my head in work. Loads of the laptops we have can't be upgraded. Turns out they're all well within spec to run it, they are just missing a TPM security chip. So it can't be installed.

I'd say piles of functional computers are going to E waste in October when Microsoft no longer support windows 10 because of this. Such an absolute waste.

I'm not a fan of wireless earbuds, but mainly because they're intended to be thrown out when the battery life shortens and are not designed to be repaired easily. USB-C to 3.5mm jack adaptors are also an imperfect solution due to how flimsy the USB-C port is. I'm fine not going back to cables you screw in but something a little more secure would be nice.

You'd be surprised how many older machines are still floating around in Public Service departments. The one I was messing about with today was a Dell Inspiron 5000 series. From 2016 I believe.

Ran a clean install of Windows 10 and it runs really well. Thought there might be some TPM option hiding away in the bios but no luck unfortunately!

Aren't smart fridge screens for doing things like monitoring the inside of the fridge, warnings and alerts, lists etc?

The ideal of someone connecting Bluetooth headphones to their fridge to watch YouTube is absolutely bizarre.

is it similar to having a tv in the kitchen maybe? So you can keep an eye on the score or whatever while prepping food.

Possibly but we're a bit old fashioned in having only 1 TV in the whole house and that's in the sitting room.

The kitchen is for prepping dinner, sitting around the island drinking coffee or eating at the dining table. All very 20th century things 🤣

If it was for the purpose of making a meal/following a recipe, why would the screen have to be on the fridge? You could just as easily (or more easily) just have it on your phone, without having to look over at the fridge. And if it was just for your headphones, the phone does that. And if it's because the fridge screen is bigger than your phone, there's more than likely going to be a telly in the kitchen that you could cast the video to.