I have a Christmas tree with built-in LED lights where I can change their colors and make patterns and animations. Every year I get it out I have to do a firmware update on my Christmas tree before I can use it 😂
"Le Firmware? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"
Yet more reasons that charcoal/firewood is superior.
I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don't have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.
Okay, I'm not a huge griller, but wouldn't it be better just to build in a thermostat? Let it maintain its own temperature?
Commercial grills do exactly that. There's just a thermostat built into the gas valve which uses a sensing bulb to modulate the gas flow based on actual temp and set temp. They don't even need electricity let alone wifi.
I'm an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don't recognise I'd shoot it.
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.
Hold on, my dental implants are glitching.
semi related
Hacking My Smart Grill - Intercepting SSL to AWS Services via Firmware Modification ~> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tH6VU6chEc
There was a silly little movie in the 80's called "Maximum Overdrive", written and directed by Stephen King.
In it Aliens somehow cause machines to 'turn' on human beings and attack us.
They could remake that movie now but instead of Aliens causing the machines to attack people, it could be malicious 'hackers' that do it, and it would be more believable that the original film.
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