Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator

No,
not giving them money is only answer that anyone should ever consider

Only in banana republic would customer be less valuable than ad revenue

Normal ones, yes, even 3rd world countries:

have counters only (minimalism).

Yeah a small screen showing time, day, weather, moon phase, sunrise/set, moonrise/set and daily/weekly schedule would be awesome. I have friends who keep a weekly meal/social schedule on their fridge and when I was staying with them mid move it was really convenient to have what’s going on so prominently displayed

I haven’t been able to get home assistant working but I imagine it has something for home displays like that with a fair amount of customizability

Ads and the news are two things I absolutely don’t want on my refrigerator. This is a large eye level object in the room that days begin in. They’re putting ads there because they know its a really convenient place to display useful information.

I wonder if it’ll be like TVs, which are cheap as fuck for a really nice TV, but equipped with garbage like Alexa and Amazon fire.

Right now, you can buy a $200 “smart” TV, or a $1800 “dumb” TV. I wonder if fridges and other appliances will go in that direction.

Pi-hole is useful for a lot of other things too.

I bought a child cam system and noticed it pinging home for updates, and shut that off real quick thanks to Pi-hole.

Yeah at a reasonable price I think a fridge is a decent place to put a display surface. It’s an early point of failure but with some consumer and longevity focused thinking that’s resolvable. I don’t need it enough for the costs but if done well with a focus on the consumer’s needs and wants it could be quite nice. Mind you that condition means fat chance but still, a display telling me what I’m doing today and if I need a jacket would be really convenient in the kitchen. Give it a bus tracker and I think people would really love that.

Honestly I hate how much of tech these days ignores asking if it’s solving a problem

I’ve been hearing about how shitty Samsung appliances are since 2018.

Who is buying these?

This is actually why I got a Costco membership. 90% of gas stations in my city have a TV screen now and fuck that noise.

Never worked for me. Push that button. Pushed the button below/above. Held the button.

Pushed all the buttons.

None of it worked.

People that need to buy the newest, biggest, most expensive shit out of vanity always get judged. Just not the way they’d like.

I mean if it doesn’t make sound I’ll get the cheap “smart” fridge and just cover up the screen, if it’s a high quality fridge besides the screen, no problem.

Mine is so “smart” that it doesn’t properly detect that it’s open with a cm or so gap. At least it beeped furiously when it detected that the freezer section had a dangerously high temperature half a day later.

Even the $3000 Samsung TVs have ads if you connect them to the Internet. Noone is safe

Got my MILs ancient range/washer/dryer,all obviously from the 80s. Never gonna sell them; never gonna toss them. Parts are cheap and a YouTube video can show you how to install them. They’re old enough that all the anti right-to-repair garbage hadn’t really reached it’s peak yet.

Gotcha. Yeah, my longest lasting Washing Machine was a Maytag or GE that ran from the mid-80s all the way to about 2005. It only died because the wash tub bearings (or whatever they are called) started to fail and leak the wash water everywhere. The wash motor was also extremely loud just before that happened, so it was either already struggling against failing parts, or, it too was failing. It survived a house move as well. Electronically, there was no computer. It was just a dial controlled machine with various cycles tied to certain positions in the dial.

After that I had a Kenmore, which died after about a decade. It, too, developed a leak in the wash tub that couldn’t be fixed effectively without effectively buying a new machine.

The LG still works today, over 10 years later.

Funny you mention the suspension going bad. The manufacturer price for suspension rods for my washing machine was $230. I was able to source the part online for about $30. All I had to do was toss in some new grease on the joints after taking the top of the machine off, and replacing each rod. The Sump Pump Motor was about $120 from the manufacturer. I sourced the same part from the upstream supplier (which, as it turns out, is used in non-LG washers as well) and that was $60.

All the terrible touch features they’re adding to cars these days makes me think a brand new car today would go obsolete before a 10 year old used car with 100k miles. New cars are unrepairable because of how complicated they are.

Missing the point.

But it misses the point

Until they’re impossible to find without a screen, like dumb TVs are near impossible to find today.

I’m still holding out for when they finally put out a Linux fridge