• Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My house’s fridge has a horribly designed freezer that is just a huge drawer with a smaller drawer inside. It wastes a huge amount of freezer space.

    It also doesn’t close all the way periodically. If you’re not paying attention, it freezes up the coil, and melts all your freezer food.

    I mounted a door sensor switch to the side and it sends my phone an email if the door been open for more than five minutes.

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      2 months ago

      What brand?

      Would the phrase “Never by a household appliance made by a cell phone company” apply in this case?

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Modern fridges just…do that.

      My fridge sends a push notification if the door is opened too long.

      • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        2 months ago

        Mine does that too, but LG’s app required fine location permissions to be always on. No way in hell I’m going to let LG track my every move so I can be alerted when the fridge door is open or the washer’s done. They’d have to buy me dinner first.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        3 months ago

        The issue with that is that all of them require internet access for that, and there’s no way I’m connecting my fridge to the internet.

        • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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          3 months ago

          Mine just starts dinging if its left open for too long. Same wiþ þe fridge doors. Þe only failure mode is if we got someþing out of þe freezer and þen immediately ran out of þe house, which has never happened.