Remember, friends don’t let friends but Samsung or LG appliances!
(Also, long lasting appliances still exist, you just have to be ready to pay the price, otherwise get something from the Maytag family)
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
x4740N@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Anything from BSH group is good from what I’ve heard online from other netisens
Which is
- Bosch
- Siemens
- Neff
- Gaggernau
Miel are also good especially for vacuum cleaners
All of this information I remember from reddits buy it for life subreddit which really should have a lemmy version
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
*Miele ;)
And yeah, mid level is very good too!
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I second this motion.
iheartneopets@lemm.ee 4 months ago
But it for life is on lemmy! Idk how to link it, but search for it and it should pop up
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
For people interested an extensive report by French appliance store after sale service. It gives the reliability of each brand. There is a note for the reliability, ease and cost of repair.
It’s only in French unfortunately : https://www.darty.com/achat/services/barometre-sav/barometre.html
Xirup@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Honestly I don’t get why Rossman cry so much about “he expected that his $2000> TV would not track him or at least have the option turned off by default.”
Why shouldn’t they? Why would anyone expect in the first place that by buying a more expensive product they are going to care about your data? Obviously it benefits them to sell everyone’s data, from Rossman’s point of view it sounds like people who buy cheap products deserve to have their data sold because the company is making a loss by selling them the product.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Yeah he’s really upset about LG, but it seems like everything tracks you these days. Seems a bit shortsighted to just shit on LG and no one else.
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
from Rossman’s point of view it sounds like people who buy cheap products deserve to have their data sold
I watched him and it is obvious he is against “You bought from X? Lol, screw you!” mentality.
DampCanary@lemmy.world 4 months ago
citing Rossmann?
cogman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s some appliance breakdown vids (idk if Rossman is one of them) but the gist is Samsung and LG like to put cheap plastic parts in high wear locations which inevitably fail.
Fridges are dead simple appliances. A compressor and evaporator coils with a temperature sensor. There’s absolutely no reason they shouldn’t outlast you and everyone you love.
It’s insane these “premium” brands are built to fall like they do.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’ve got no idea who that is so no, I wasn’t knowingly quoting them
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 months ago
I like our used Samsung dryer. For basic drying. It has all those other bells and whistles that I don't care about, but it's done well for years. That damn finished drying tune though...with the option to turn it off or...not turn it off. omg
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I like the washer and not the dryer. Had the set for 4 years. No issues with the washer but the dryer literally leaks lint. The trap doesn’t catch it and it gums up my vents in 2 months.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 4 months ago
7 years ago I bought a brand new Samsung washer and dryer. After I hooked up everything for the washer (correctly), when I set it to hot water, cold would come out, and vice versa. Had it taken aware and Lowe’s replaced it with another brand new one. This time, the two guys who dollied in the firstly one, I had them hook everything up. Exact same thing happened. Hot for cold, cold for hot. These two guys were flabbergasted. They couldn’t believe two brand new washers were having the same defect. Same two guys brought another one the next day. Finally, the third one worked correctly.
I haven’t had any problems since. But still, ridiculous it took three tries to get a functioning washer.
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wish I had friends. It would’ve prevented me from buying the shitty dishwasher that last less than 3 years.
timewarp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Moreso, the fridge will stop working in two years cause that is when their subscription cloud service to access your fridge will be updated with firmware that is no longer compatible.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
My fridge doesn’t have a TPM chip and won’t upgrade to FridgeOS 11.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Also the required app will no longer be supported
Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Sure it will work forever, but it also never really worked right in the first place. Those are definitely the fridges where one section freezes and other areas are almost room temp
hobowillie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
People also have survivorship bias with these things. Sure your refrigerator might have lasted forever but quite a few others did not. There is a reason why appliance repair places existed and were much more common than today.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While that is true, items are purposely made unrepairable now. You don’t have right to repair movements because John Deere and Apple devices are so much more complex to repair for common failure points. You have those movements emerging because companies make it extremely difficult in the name of profit or style with equally skilled and capable repair personnel not being able to even partake in the process.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’ve also gotten more complex over time, increasing difficulty of repair.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
yeah thats because they are made intentionally uneconomical and difficult to repair now
pyre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
people underestimate how useful and frequently necessary icepicks used to be.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 months ago
I bet there is a Technology Connections video on this.
Xey@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
If I remember correctly there is.
uis@lemm.ee 4 months ago
There is no problem in sticking second compressor wirhout greatly reducing fridge lifespan.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 months ago
RazzleDazzle@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Survivorship bias
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, but can you survive a hydrogen bomb blast in a 1980s fridge? No, you need a 1950s fridge for that.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Thnx Indiana
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We called the dog Indiana.
dankm@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s the lead lining.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Remember in Australia, if you’re persistent enough, you could get this replaced under Australian Consumer Law, if something breaks in an unreasonable amount of time (outside of warranty, even). Considering fridges can easily last for 10 years, anything well within that should be fairly easy (but require many, many emails and threatening to taken them to your local small claims) to get replaced.
That is if you can do without a fridge in the meantime 😅
This is not legal advice.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 4 months ago
While consumer laws in the US generally suck, there are a few stores that have amazing return policies and go out of their way to please customers, Costco being one of them.
I know a guy who brought back his 10-year-old broken plasma flatscreen TV without a receipt. They replaced it with a new model, no questions asked.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Costco no longer has those return policies on electronics specifically because people abused them.
droans@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My TV came with a five year warranty - two year manufacturer, two years Costco, and one year from my Costco credit card.
My washer and dryer got seven. Same deal, but Costco was offering an extra extended warranty plan for free.
The best part is that they design their warranties to run consecutively instead of concurrently. Unfortunately, Citi got rid of the extended warranty with the Costco credit cards about a year and a half ago.
volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 4 months ago
For real, we bought a fridge in November and it is already breaking
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Back when my dad bought a new whirlpool fridge, it didn’t take long for the LEDs inside to start failing.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
In 2016 my parents bought a new microwave oven and gave their old one to me. That new microwave is broken now and the one I got is still operating the same as it did in the 90s.
thefrankring@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You probably forgot to pay the monthly subscription of your refrigerator.
jaschen@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Samsung fridge had the ice maker stop working 5 times in a span of 2 years. The tray mechanism inside would break so often. I actually started buying replacements from AliExpress and treated it as a consumable product.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Samsung appliances are garbage
marx2k@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just replaced a Samsung fridge after about 6 years when I bought it new.
Never again will I but Samsung appliances.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 months ago
This is what they expected you to do
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Shout out to our 30 year old Miele washing machine
Quique@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That will cost you a shit load of energy does it?
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
not energy, but def water. modern wash machines are extremely water efficient. That may result in energy savings if you’re using hot water. Modern detergent doesn’t really need hot water though.
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I wouldn’t say it uses an unreasonable amount of power to run. I may be wrong, but a water heater and some pumps can’t be more efficient other than insulation so it wouldn’t waste power to heat the surrounding air.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Today’s products are built to just barely cross some finish line and not a day longer. It’s bad for you, and bad for the environment.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 4 months ago
Don't buy the overly fancy fridges: Buy a basic one from a decent company and it will probably last for years.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Decent company = not Samsung or LG
Maytag and its subbrands can actually be fixed and parts are available long term
CptEnder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s two sides of the spectrum really. Buy cheap but durable or really fork out and buy commercial-grade. Both will require maintenance and yes one costs more to maintain and requires a contractor to install but if done correctly it’ll last 20+ years and be consistent. Same applies to other kitchen hardware.
Brands: Sub-Zero, Wolf, Viking, Coldline
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I bought a fridge only 20 years ago and it’s still chugging along. 🤜🌳 Made in Canada even.
Baguette@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No freezer? Do you have a separate reach in freezer? Can’t imagine life without a freezer
ccunning@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“…I am also the size of a dorm fridge”
duderium2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Enshittification, also known as the overall tendency of profit to decline.
Resol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My refrigerator fridge machine that fridges and refrigerates is from the early 2000s. Still works like a charm.
It even has a square on it that says “OK”.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I still have my $120 fridge from like 2010-2011ish back when Sears was a thing and it’s still going without any issues. Zero maintenance ever needed thus far.
No ice maker in it, and the freezer part is on top like in the pic. Apparently if the freezer is on the side instead of on top, those break down way more often.
Resol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have a freezer on the top too. It did collect some ants for whatever reason (my house is a literal ant colony at this point) but it still works OK, just like the bottom part (where it says OK).
hswolf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
damn, can’t argue with that, OK it is
dukatos@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Zero kelvin? That sensor is broken…
Resol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not really a temperature sensor, it always says that regardless of how cold you set the fridge (and no, absolute zero is not possible, sorry for ruining the fun).
But, depending on how cold the fridge is, it turns blue, but the bit that says OK stays white.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I used to rent this tiny little house from an elderly couple a little over a decade ago. It was there first house when they got married in the late 40s and they’d been renting since they moved to a bigger house in the 50s. In all that time the refrigerator has been replaced ONCE in like 1968 and that fridge still worked perfectly when I moved out lol
sirico@feddit.uk 4 months ago
I’ll rip you a new ozone hole
johsny@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But is it AI?
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A fridge is a fridge, the basic mechanical working principle of it didn’t change over the past 40 years. But people have a lot more expectations put into what a fridge should be able to do nowadays, and electronics or complex mechanism such as the ice maker is generally the first to break on a modern fridge.
The moral of the story is, don’t buy a fridge with an icemaker or have a tablet attached to it, and you should be fine.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just bought a brand new shitty fridge, can’t wait for it to die next year
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I had one that lasted 15 years. In that time it had to be repaired twice, and the rail for the drawers broke out so I had no crispers. It was remarkably expensive.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Last one I got was free so I can’t really complain lol but I also have no idea how old it was
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, growing up we had a harvest gold Frigidaire from the 1970s. It didn’t leave us, we left it.
(Don’t miss the gallons of ice water in the freezer that had to be defrosted every few months.)
frunch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I guess one could make the claim that an automatic defrost system is a luxury, lol
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I moved into a dated house that came with dated kitchen appliances 70/80s. I’ve updated the floors under, the water line and gas line to them. Mostly everything around them. I’ve still kept the appliances. Still work great.
I’ll keep my money and the fridge that still does what new fridge does, keeps shit cold. And the stove that does what a new stove dies, make shit hot.
cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Its not fully the fault of tech companies, yeah there is some planned obselecence. But there won’t be anymore “I will outlive you” appliances cause the more mechanical it gets the more cheaper and easier it is to repair and they also tends to have less individual components.
I don’t think any of those new smartish watches even from the best of Swizz makers could last like it did 100years ago.
marx2k@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Allero@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Real answer is planned obsolescence.
All of those systems can be maintained and serve for long. Electronics is not the culprit - it can serve for decades easily. Also, most people don’t need their fridge or whatever to be extra fancy.
But the producer really wants for their product to die - this forces you to buy another unit, which increases their revenue.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Not only do they want the product to die, they also make it really hard to repair. Not offering spare parts, except through official repair centers which charge so much you might as well buy a new unit. Not providing any kind of documentation or schematics. Using chips with custom firmware you can’t download anywhere, so even if you were to replace the hardware, without the software it’s useless. Locking off communication/programming ports behind passwords and custom programming software.
This is why right to repair is so important. It isn’t just phones, it’s all consumer electronics. With proper care, maintenance and repair, a lot of devices could easily double their lifespan. This reduces e-waste and saves consumers money, it’s like a win for everyone except for the people trying to sell you new shit.
LouNeko@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is only partially true. Yes we do engineer things to fail at a certain point, but that’s only because back in the day we naively assumed that we could engineer things not to fail at all.
Yes a stator of an electric engine will probably not fail for 100 years, but the seals will - yes the statically stressed metal part will hold until it crumbles to rust, but the dynamically stressed plastic part won’t - yes the silicon in an IC-Chip is protected from corrosion, but the connector pins aren’t.
The point I’m trying to make is that there’s always a part that will fail before another, there’s no way to economicaly engineer around that, today we simply have the data to statistically define a failure point.
A fridge usually has a 10 year warranty. This isn’t even the end of life point. After 10 years it’s most likely that 80-90% of devices will still work. This means that if your device survived 10 years it will most likely work for another 5-10 years.
x4740N@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Those things have worser energy efficency and probably contain worser refrigerants
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
But why? Like what is failing so often in new fridges?
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Shitty solder in wiring. Plastic for things that used to be aluminium, aluminium for things that used to be steel.
Just cost cutting by value engineers. I remember reading that the 3rd year of a cars model was probably the best, as they’d worked out the kinks in the design and hadn’t watered everything down much… I couldn’t back that up if you wanted a source, however
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Source: I work in/with electronics manufacturers
Tl; dr - a mix of value engineering and consumer preference. You wanna buy a $3k TV, or a $700vTV? How rock solid does your automatic sprinkler really need to be, compared to a satellite radio in the Sahel?
Per IPC industry standards, there’s three classes of electronic workmanship/quality control used:
- Class 1: It works, just about. Shoddy soldering is okay as long as connectivity is maintained. Passing a QA test may be as simple as “it runs when powered”. This is where most consumer grade stuff lives: calculators, watches, flashlights, etc.
- Class 2: Better built with generally more QA. Testing usually involves actually checking for function and different modes. Generally used only on commercial/civil government stuff like traffic lights, power controllers, heavy machinery - anywhere where reliability and longevity is worth paying more for.
- Class 3: Complete process control and 100% coverage function (and almost always) burn-in/stress test cycles. Top quality and cost, typically only used for military, aerospace, or medical - where stuff failing means people die.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 months ago
We bought our current car used years ago with a similar philosophy - it was the first year of a new change, and they hadn't changed or recalled anything in the few following years. Combine that with a one car owner locally, and it obviously was a good buy at 17 years old running strong.
But I will say even the best car makes, models, and years have their lemons. You have to look hard at each car's history and evidence to really win. We got pretty lucky.
SternburgExport@feddit.de 4 months ago
And it will use as much energy as everything else in the house combined.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wonder how true that is. Does it come down to effective insulation? I also thought the old refrigerants were more efficient but really bad for the environment. The only other factor is motor/pump.
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Compressors are variable and much more efficient. More efficient and variable speed fan motors along with more efficient blade design. Insulation now is drastically better than glass wool of the past. Electronics are able to be integrated in order to provide more fine grain control and overall design has been improved just due to efficiency standards being placed on a bright yellow sticker. In the past design and component choices never really considered efficiency, while efficiency doesn’t always win out in design choices it’s a weighted factor and influences the overall engineering and design in ways that just didn’t happen before efficiency regulations came about.
Aux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
appliance-standards.org/…/how-your-refrigerator-h…
Here’s a good article. From 1970-s to 2014 power use of refrigerators decreased by 4 times. My modern European fridge only uses 270Wh per year, which is even further decrease.
You really do not want to still use a fridge from 1970-s.