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I've gotta rewatch that Guy Pearce Time Machine movie now

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 90 points 4 days ago (18 children)

I remember buying a Meater thermometer. I thought it was so cool to be able to monitor your cooking temperature from my phone.

But then I learned two things:

  • your phone needs to be within Bluetooth range of the thermometer
  • your phone must send the data to their cloud, only then for you to go to their app to read the data

There is no way for you to read the data locally.

I sold it and replaced it with a fully local thermometer that works without Bluetooth. Sure it can't show it on my phone but damn if I am going to let a company chain me to their data center just so I can read a fucking thermometer.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 21 points 4 days ago (4 children)

If you have to be in Bluetooth range, why the fuck does it need to talk to a cloud service?

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

To snitch on you and spy on you.

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