[coldtea]

I too really have no idea how to reply to this without sounding like an ass so apologies in advance.

Well, our parents, and for the younger, our grandparents too, and us, have managed to do fine for like 60+ years of using fridges without an fridge door alarm.

Fun fact: for an alarm for when you are away for days, and you want to know if the fridge power went off and back on in between, you can freeze a jar of water in your freezer, put a coin on top, and leave it there.

If you find the coin in the bottom of the jar at some point, the fridge power/temperature has been off for a while.

[darreninthenet]

They did fine for many years without mobile phones, cars, aircraft and computers... your point is irrelevant. It's just a handy extra to have I really don't see why people find my phone pinging me if the door is left open so offensive :-D

[coldtea]

>They did fine for many years without mobile phones, cars, aircraft and computers... your point is irrelevant.

Nah, rather it's the comparison that is off.

Without cars, for example, transportation was slow and constrainted, affecting commerce, work, and lots of other things. Whether good or bad (since there are negatives too) the introduction of the car was a huge change.

Network connected fridges? The incovenience they solve is so rare and small that most people don't give a damn about, not to mention the incovenience from their assorted crappy controls, the privacy issues, and other such factors, can be even higher and more constant.

Might as well compare the invention of fire with the Shake Weight.

[scrollaway]

And without open door alarms, food would sometimes get spoiled and cause waste.

Why are you fighting the guy over this feature? Everybody here is in agreement that network-connected fridges are not particularly useful but you're trying to make a point about open door alarms.

[coldtea]

>Why are you fighting the guy over this feature?

I'm not fighting anybody. I'm stating my opinion, which happens to be different than his. Isn't this the purpose of a forum?

>Everybody here is in agreement that network-connected fridges are not particularly useful but you're trying to make a point about open door alarms.

The context here is the fridge sending you online messages about the open door.

[TeMPOraL]

Base open door alarm is just an annoying beeper that goes on some 30-45 seconds into the door being opened.

[TeMPOraL]

Today, we call such tricks "life hacks". For when the defaults don't work well enough, even if they probably should. This is indeed a cool life hack. But it kind of feels like something that should've been built into the goddamn fridge.