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• Toasters could do that in the fifties. Crispiness is directly related to surface temperature and you can detect that with nothing fancier than a bimetal strip and some clever engineering. If you want to use modern technology you could use an IR sensor and a two cent microcontroller.

  Using AI for the task suggests that they stuck a camera in there and use image processing to badly simulate an IR sensor. Less reliable than two metal strips welded together but also way more expensive.

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20h ago

• Mind you, even relatively simple fridges can technically have firmware because these days the cheapest way to implement something like a defrost timer is with a microcontroller. Of course that firmware is so simple that it doesn’t need updates and definitely doesn’t need to be connected to the internet.

  Other than that I don’t really see what a smart fridge can do that you can’t cover by sticking a cheap tablet on the fridge door. Sure, maybe a smart fridge can order butter from Amazon when it thinks that yours runs out but you can do the same with your phone and “buy it again” in seconds. Assuming that you even want to buy your groceries from an e-retailer.

  It’s definitely a pointless price inflation device that makes the fridge less reliable to boot.

  on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21h ago

• Yes. That’s how art works.

  Most musicians, including many bands that fill stadiums and go on world tours, pay the bills with regular full-time jobs and do all of their band stuff in their spare time. It’s similar for artists, authors, etc.

  A really good game takes years of hard work. It can take surprisingly little money; a small team driven by passion can be very efficient. But it does take effort. And sure, not everyone can be Tynan Sylvester or ConcernedApe or Pixel or Team Cherry; most tiny indie games aren’t genre-shaping mega hits.

  But they don’t have to. There’s plenty of small games out there that are just good and that’s good enough. The idea of even just a hundred people playing one’s game and being entertained is enticing enough for thousands of developers to sink hours and hours of their spare time into.

  Will there be a bazillion lame asset flips in the future? Yes, just like there have always been lame derivative bands, shitty overhyped artists, terrible indie movies, and drivel-slinging hack authors.

  Just like there have always been shitty AA and AAA games, for that matter. 90% of everything is crap. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of gems hiding in between all the chaff.

  (And while I’m at it: While making a game does requires a lot of knowledge, that knowledge can be acquired along the way. The original Cave Story was a one-man project and Pixel certainly didn’t start out as a professional programmer/artist/composer/screenplay author. Learning how to do all that is part of the fun for some people.)

  on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Absolutely.

  Continuity is extremely important in trade relations. If I plan to tie my economy to yours I want to be certain that the rules of those ties won’t suddenly change. That’s not the case with the USA anymore; that’s one side of the coin.

  The other side is that the USA are a big market that has, until recently, been fairly reliable. There’s a lot of money to be made by dealing with them and there are a lot of established relations that would be expensive to change. In some cases companies can’t even pivot to other markets as their business is too specific.

  So trade will continue but the States are no longer guaranteed to be the preferred partner. Especially when making new trade deals the USA no longer get the benefit of goodwill. Previously they could argue that signing a deal with them meant decades of reliable access to a large, stable, and prosperous market and that a few unfavorable tradeoffs are worth it. Now they can’t even guarantee that the deal won’t be unilaterally canceled within months or that their market has much purchasing capacity. As a result everyone else is much more inclined to seek alternate trade deals and play hardball when the USA come to negotiate.

  on ‘Hostile act’: Trump threatens EU with tariffs over Canada associate-membership proposal in c/europe@feddit.org · 17 Sep 2026

• Try working on a codebase that’s all event-driven hexagonal CQRS with hand-crafted SQL for persistence. Add additional buzzwordy methodologies to taste.

  Adding a single property to your product means you now have to update an aggregate class, several DTOs, and several event classes and handlers before you can even think about touching the UI.

  And that’s in your main solution. There’s also at least one facade service you’ll need to make compatible and you also need to update the event simulator used for testing. The latter night involve having to touch every single line in a 2000 lines long SQL script.

  Having to go though three separate 600-2000 LOC PRs for one PBI isn’t that exotic.

  on Peer reviewing is torture now in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• He can choke to death on fully synthetic breakfast syrup. That matches his level of sophistication.

  on The whole world is watching as Canada stands up to Trump in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026

• I have watched it and just seeing the meme has gotten Lain’s theme stuck in my head.

  on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 20 Aug 2026

• I liked the first season because the protagonist actually used his brain, made observations, and came up with sensible plans. That was pretty refreshing; usually even “smart” protagonists will come up with bullshit plans out of nowhere.

  Then in season two he became an idiot and the show itself became amazingly stupid.

  on [Review] Aldnoah.Zero: a disappointing Mecha that's worst than you remember in c/anime@ani.social · 15 Aug 2026

• If you want a bunch of stuff that’s not in core or extra and you don’t want to intensely babysit the AUR, you could try Chaotic-AUR. It hosts prebuilt packages for a bunch of AUR packages which are actively maintained by the Chaotic team.

  I consider it to be more secure than the AUR proper since they actually care for their packages and review nontrivial changes. For instance, the recent takeover attacks didn’t hit Chaotic-AUR builds since the changed packages didn’t make it past the review.

  It’s still an unofficial third-party repository and closer to the AUR than to extra but I consider it a major step up.

  on Avoid this very common mistake in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026

• Technically we already had XCOM 3. Apocalypse wasn’t half bad, despite the weird realtime/turn-based combat system.

  on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• Small? When I was a kid the local bakery had these in tennis ball size. Not enough rum to get you tipsy, though.

  on Lightweight in c/animemes@ani.social · 9 Aug 2026