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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

But supposed they invented a whole new kind of meat and your grill wasn't ready to deal with it? How would you feel then? Pretty darn silly, that's how!

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

With cooking normal beats all.

Gas, coal > electric shit

[–] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 36 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

Pay me? Fuck yes, I'll rip that crap out and replace it with a couple of relays or maybe get fancy and arduino -> home assistant.

I'm betting that someone pay a LOT extra to get that garbage though.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don't have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

My dad's smoker is also able to set key frames so you can have it ramp up or down in temp at various points while cooking. And it can either be set to change temp at a time or when one of the probes reaches a certain temp. Plus he really likes being able to monitor it from his iPad, especially in the winter or if he has to run up to the store real quick.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My grill is a disposable item I buy one every four or five years.

None of my go to devices are internet connected. Not my TV screens. Not my toothbrush. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.

[–] mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Just out of curiosity... What are you doing to your grill that you need a new one every few years? Mine is prob. 10 years old and still no reason in sight to replace it.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

They shoot at it when the food is subpar.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 53 minutes ago (2 children)

As someone in the PNW, there is not much you can do if you don’t bring the dang thing indoors that won’t leave the thing a pile of rust in 5 years.

I am trying with a specific form of stainless to see if it makes a difference.

[–] mndckr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 32 minutes ago

I see, yes i also have a stainless steel one, which is outdoors all year. Good luck, i suspect you might have just solved your "grill consumption" :)

Nah, just give it the rattle can and paint it every now and then. "Once dor dust, twice for rust."

[–] seejur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Actually the smoker is probably the only one thing I want software on and wifi (but yeah we could do without the updates unless there is some sort of bugs that turn it into a killing machine)

[–] tankfox@midwest.social 3 points 2 hours ago

I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It's a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.

No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I've had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.

[–] setnof@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Yesterday my WIFI air purifier crashed after changing the speed with the app and turned itself off and even caused the Ethernet switch to crash and hang.

[–] atthecoast@feddit.nl 3 points 1 hour ago

Forwarded this to someone at Traeger. Will let you know if I hear back 🙂

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Realistically they probably didn't use the traeger until the 4th, so they were about a year behind on "updates"

Unless you're my dad, then he finds any excuses he can to use his traeger. The thing can smoke a damn good brisket, software updates be damned!

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 12 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

You could hack a futuristic firmware upgradable power knife, but how do you hack it to hack off fingers?

Aliens had the supernatural power to be the machines

A self driving tesla trapping people in a gas station is 100% more believable than the semi.

Something is there...

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago

You can't really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn't have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.

In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King's cocaine fever dreams iirc.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

*Brought to you by Samsung.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

What happens if the grill resets anyway? You get back to the default wallpaper?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I wouldn’t use it, but if you want one with software then there’s nothing wrong with it updating.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Can we go back to dumb tech?

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

To not connect it to the Internet would probably help and turn it into a normal grill.

[–] AniZaeger@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm a casino slot tech. Don't even get me started on the electronic table games that still use a dealer! Like Scotty said, "The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.".

[–] ChiefPulaski@startrek.website 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

when you buy a wifi-grill you kind of missed the point of grilling.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

It's great for smoking though. I've done it the old fashioned way of staying up all night to feed wood into the smoker and I'll gladly take a wifi-enabled pellet smoker with a temperature probe over it.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you need wifi? You turn a knob and fill it with pellets every couple hours.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

To get the temperature probe data on your phone so that you don't have to repeatedly get up to check it. It's particularly useful for turkey, where the difference between moist and horribly dry white meat is only 5-10 degrees.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've got a Bluetooth temp probe set. They work a treat. And I totally forgot to even use them when I got smoked a salmon and chicken wings for Canada Day.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've got a bluetooth temp probe set too. I use it in my smoker. I'm not trusting that expensive piece of meat to the whims of the gods. I need to know what the temperature of the meat is and when it hit's the target temps.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

TBF, I absolutely should have used them, but I was cooking for 25 people, and honestly totally forgot about them. I was rushing about with the BBQ, into the kitchen switching out cooked pizza for uncooked and trying to catch a sip of beer in between all that.... As a result the salmon came out amazing, slow smoked at 60° for 3 hours because I totally forgot about it until the wife would occasionally say: the smoker's not smoking!

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Probably not. But it would be rad if it could run Doom.

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