Has anyone experience how bad the proriatary software is on such machines? For Kenwood there is an app (Kenwood World App) which apparently guides you through the cooking-process. Does anyone have a idea for how long this app or other apps from similar machines will be maintained? Does anyone have experience of using such a device without an internet connection?

I am sure that there wont ever be a simple foss app which can connect to such a device, but how bad is it? I am worried that the new Kenwoods wont be as durable as the old one I had (had it handed down, was around 30yo), because the software will be discontinued.

Looking for people with experiences with such machines and their software-side.

  • @delirious_owl
    5•4 months ago

    Hopefully one day we’ll have FOSS hardware that comes with FOSS software so we won’t have to buy this shit hardware and have to backdoor it to work with FOSS software.

    Last month we got a FOSS blender (both hardware and software). Hopefully well get a FOSS hardware stand mixer sometime in the next few years. Maybe a good hobby project to contribute-to ;)

    https://www.openfunk.co/blogs/news/open-funk-goes-open-source