Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator

Gross, my fridge got hit with ransomware again and now all the food inside is encrypted. Time to see if my canned backups are any good.

…Where did I put those backups?

I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.

I would love a monitor on my fridge (it’d be better than most of the dusty old shit on mine right now. ) But I would want to have complete control of the hardware attached to that screen

I hope a DIY mod community springs up to help people take back the machines they own.

I’m not against my refrigerator having a screen that I can control

But, can it play Doom?

Honestly, it doesn’t cost much more than fridge without a screen. I was trying to buy an LG with the window that you can knock on to see inside (not screen) but it was out of stock… and ended up with one of these fridges. The software is stupid though, I use it to play music sometimes when I’m cooking. It has some menu options for controlling the fridge too. I would love to load up custom ROM though… What annoys me the most is lack of RTC battery, because the time resets whenever there’s a power outage.

Well, with ads it will likely become cheaper than dumb fridges, which will lock in more and more customers until the sudden subscription service hits and everyone have to agree and pay up or buy a new fridge altogether. This isn’t the first, second nor third time this has happened.

To keep track of groceries? Just I don’t know, LOOK inside the fridge. Oh the cabinets and drawers don’t have screens, just slap a few of them on there to keep track of that shit too! Why stop at the fridge?

First world problems

But why have a screen at all?

unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money

Do you really feel like inconveniencing us is unlikely?

A few years ago before I moved away, PNC bank had a few branches with new ATMs that made me tap through ads for loans and special checking accounts.

I would love to load up custom ROM though… What annoys me the most is lack of RTC battery, because the time resets whenever there’s a power outage.

They made an Internet-connected fridge and didn’t put an NTP client on it?

When I used to work at Home Depot, selling appliances, I would absolutely refuse to sell anyone anything from Samsung.

They make absolutely terrible and extremely expensive overpriced appliances which are guaranteed to break within three years.

Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.

People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.

Enshittification, in my kitchen?!

You have to be pretty naive to not have seen this one coming from a mile off. But hey, at least people can see what’s in their fridge without having to open the door, what a luxury.

You carry a phone that supports these features in your pocket. Fridges don’t need screens imho

But then you need to use cloud services to sync with your family/roommates/etc. Not everyone lives alone.

I’m not a huge fan of my Samsun monitor either actually. There’s a lot of stuff in there that I don’t want or use, and most of what is in there feels pretty half-assed. Will definitely be trying another brand when it comes to replace it.

Sammobile apparently has 1660 “partners”, the fuck?

Someone hacked my fridge and gave it a virus. I ate the food and got gastroenteritis.

The food encryption was unnecessary, I already got DDOS’d when my wife and kids got there first and ate all the cake Before I got home from work.