Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator
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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.
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.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
To be honest, I’d judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
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I avoid “smart” products — especially those with screens — for this reason.
I wonder how are you posting that comment…
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I wonder how are you posting that comment…
You got me. I’m posting from my refrigerator.
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My understanding is Samsung, at least as an appliance company, had tanked on quality over the last decade or so. I had all Samsung appliances until every one started failing slowly.
Not sure how they hope to survive with shit products AND a poor user experience.
They will cry into all their ad-money.
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Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.
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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.
An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you’re looking inside, or…
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Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
So you can see the inside of your fridge while never seeing the inside of your fridge. /s
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No,
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Why do gas pumps have screens?
Only in banana republic would customer be less valuable than ad revenue
Normal ones, yes, even 3rd world countries:
have counters only (minimalism).
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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.
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.
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No, I won’t because I’m not stupid enough to buy an Internet connected ad machine refrigerator.
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.
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No,
not giving them money is only answer that anyone should ever considerPi-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.
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Family calendar is the big one. I also watch YouTube and sports while cooking.
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
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All the useful idiots wasting their money on this crap are getting exactly what they deserve.
I’ve been hearing about how shitty Samsung appliances are since 2018.
Who is buying these?
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Why do gas pumps have screens?
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.
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Everyone should know this. Share it.
Never worked for me. Push that button. Pushed the button below/above. Held the button.
Pushed all the buttons.
None of it worked.
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To be honest, I’d judge people who have fridges with a screen. Completely unnecessary. This problem is easily solved.
People that need to buy the newest, biggest, most expensive shit out of vanity always get judged. Just not the way they’d like.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
