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I got it, too. Not surprising but this was definitely one of the deciding factors keeping me with ChatGPT. Much more willing to change providers now.

Seems like an easy thing to point an LLM at. Just throw it photos of physical receipts and route your email receipts and account statements it's way.

If it miscategorizes some things, it's not a big deal.

And cardboard. And daydream.

> lower costs for disaster mitigation/insurance

Say more about that

Cruel and unusual.

Of course they are.

One more datapoint to reference in the future when evaluating Google's long term promises and commitments. "No, we mean it this time."

> Why not use a central system, like a task/reminder app?

I do. I have OCD. Redundant systems and being able to confirm things are key for me.

> I would understand a child leaving the door open but a teenager doing it that often is kind of wild?

Teens can be absent minded. You might be shocked by how common it is for families with teens to replace a set of forks that just disappeared one by one.

> wouldn't a reminder beep that starts when the door has been open for 5 minutes be better? Must everything be on your phone? It's not even actionable if you're not in the house, where you'd hear a local beep.

It does beep when opened too long.

Remote notifications are the point. They are actionable: when I get the remote notification, I shoot off a text "close the fridge".

I've had a wifi-connected[0] Samsung fridge for 6 years. A few connected features that I like but aren't life-changing:

- Reminders to change the ice/water filter get sent to my phone. There's an indicator light, but the phone notification is nice, too. The app also records when the filter was changed—useful to confirm that I'm "tasting" that the filter needs changed early.

- When we had a teenager living with us, getting remote notifications that the refrigerator door was left open probably saved us a few fridge-fulls of food.

Other than that, it's just a fridge that works reasonably well. My one complaint has nothing to do with smart features: about once per year I have to spend 5 mins to defrost the ice maker with a hairdryer. Just infrequent enough for me not to investigate the source of the problem.

[0] I don't say "smart" here because nothing's really smart/automated and it doesn't have a screen, speaker, microphone or camera. RF28R7201SR/AA if you're curious.