Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator
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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.
Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.
TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
Whoever bought a smart fridge deserves watching those ads
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The only smart feature a fridge needs is a beeper for when the door has been left open or water filter needs changing. It sure as heck doesn’t need WiFi.
But how else will you know you need to make an unnecessary purchase?!
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It’s like none of you ever have seen a small TV on the counter
.Jesus christ the elitist nerd schick is high in here. So many angry nerds about wanting to and a calendar in the kitchen.
You’re so smart, I hope you enjoy your ads.
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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.
100% agree; the whole Touch Screen Everything UI like those found in Teslas are the absolute worst.
Having to take your eyes off the road to do literally anything to do with the climate system should be made illegal. Bring back tactile switches, FFS!
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No ads here!
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An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you’re looking inside, or…
I guess appliance engineers are just stupid and bad at their jobs.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
Just in this thread to say Fuck Samsung
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I guess appliance engineers are just stupid and bad at their jobs.
The people spending money on parts definitely are.
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Whoever bought a smart fridge deserves watching those ads
I mean, nobody REALLY deserves it. Driving consumerism seems misanthropic. Marketing and Sales people feel like a drain on society. Anyone is welcome to change my opinion. Sell me this pen.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
I do not understand people. Why did you need a fridge with a display in the first place?
I’m finally sure my fridge predates the internet it came with the house and cost £50 I have zero interest in replacing it what does having a display give me?
Frankly if you’re buying these fridges you’re part of the problem, of course they’re going to put advertisements on it, what else are they going to put on it. You all damn well know you don’t use the display anyway.
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What it actually needs is a little motor to close itself. If it knows I left it open it should be capable to close itself instead of crying like a useless piece of junk.
Is that existed it would either close after 10 seconds and try and cut you in half, what would leave the door open for 5 minutes before doing anything.
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I do not understand people. Why did you need a fridge with a display in the first place?
I’m finally sure my fridge predates the internet it came with the house and cost £50 I have zero interest in replacing it what does having a display give me?
Frankly if you’re buying these fridges you’re part of the problem, of course they’re going to put advertisements on it, what else are they going to put on it. You all damn well know you don’t use the display anyway.
It will break much fast which is great for the economy
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So you can see the inside of your fridge while never seeing the inside of your fridge. /s
Well I suppose that would be sort of a useful feature especially if you could access the camera remotely while shopping but if you think about it that camera angle is impossible.
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Are there even any dumb TVs anymore? The current lineup from CES 2025 is LG (OLED), Samsung (OLED), and TCL (MiniLED) which have great image quality options, but I’m fairly sure all are using a “smart” platform.
TCL doesn’t bother with software and uses Google TV. Samsung uses Tizen which is linux with another junk UI, though less painful than Google. LG uses webOS which I’ve heard UI side is better, but its still a junk UI on linux.
I remember reading that hotel TVs are an option. They also have an ad platform, but one intended for the hotel owner to send ads from, not some 3rd party. Not exactly dumb but also not as bad as regular TVs.
And of course a beamer or PC screen connected to some cheap small form factor PC is always an option, with Kodi or similar on it, i haven’t owned a TV in like 10 years, just using a small linux pc with beamer, and a tv tuner card in the past (nowadays my ISP offers all public channels on IPTV)
