Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges
floo@retrolemmy.com 5 hours agoStay the fuck away from Samsung appliances. They’re very pretty, very expensive, and a pile of shit.
Do you want something like this sort of thing Samsung makes? Get an LG. They’re excellent. The refrigerators used to have a bunch of problems, but they fixed all that. And they make great laundry appliances, too.
I’m going to say all LG laundry stuff must not be created equal. We have two washing machines at work and they both break every month . The only tech I can think of that’s worse are HP printers.
I fix ours (not my job, but it’s a good mental break from regular work), I start a new job next month and my boss asked what he should do about them.
Wait until they break and get something else, they’re not worth fixing. It’ll be cheaper and less downtime to buy something good.
Meanwhile I have a pair of Kenmore 80 series washer and dryer. They’re more reliable than my own heart and lungs, and I can get parts for them when a knob or a lid switch goes bad once every decade or two.
Yeah, that was also my experience when I was selling them. About 95% of them were great. And it was always this, like, 5% that just were not.
I heard those linear compressors could be the best in the industry but they tended to fail. Did they finally fix that?
The LG ones? Yeah, they did about 2 years ago. They’re also backwards compatible with all of their previous refrigerator, models, so if you have to get a replacement, it will actually work.
I once had an LG washing machine that broke after less than five years. Not impressed.
LG is positively vicious on clothes. Also, fun fact, it’ll run a gentle cycle with the water turned off. It only seems to notice water level on runs that do load sensing.
Miele, Bosch, or gtfo for cleaning appliances.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 36 minutes ago
LG is getting greedy though. They removed the Permanent Press button so that you have to connect it to Wi-Fi and use the app to set that cycle. Same with “just rinse and spin”. The app is so unbearably slow that I was motivated to figure out how to set up a Home Assistant server and make my own custom dashboard to use in order to avoid interacting with that damn app.
The actual wash/dry performance is excellent, though.