cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37646129
Source: Reddit post— Private front-end.
Samsung Statement to Android Authority:
Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.
As a part of this pilot program, Family Hub refrigerators in the U.S. will receive an over-the-network (OTN) software update with Terms of Service (T&C) and Privacy Notice (PN). Advertising will appear on certain Family Hub refrigerator Cover Screens. The Cover Screen appears when a Family Hub screen is idle. Ad design format may change depending on Family Hub personalization options for the Cover Screen, and advertising will not appear when Cover Screen displays Art Mode or picture albums.
Advertisements can be dismissed on the Cover Screens where ads are shown, meaning that specific ads will not appear again during the campaign period.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
When I was at Home Depot, I absolutely refused to sell Samsung appliances. They’re garbage. They’re expensive garbage, to be more precise.
The average failure rate for a Samsung refrigerator is that around three years. The condensers are garbage. Washer in the dryer? Average around five years before they break. I know, because I keep people coming back in to buy replacement appliances for their Samsung garbage.
roundup5381@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
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Septimaeus@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Guessing you meant compressors. If their condenser tubing is faulty, it’s a potential fire hazard.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
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allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I know this is anecdotal but I bought a Samsung washer and dryer in 2013 and the dryer lasted 9yrs and the washer lasted 10. I did have to replace the heating element in the dryer around the 7yr mark but other than that they both were fine.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
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floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
Congratulations. You didn’t get fucked. Like, I’m glad to hear it.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I am not going to say people should buy a Samsung appliance especially with this nonsense.
But you’re falling for, and propagating, a pretty common fallacy. it isn’t that Samsung appliances are significantly worse (Consumer Reports puts them in the bottom half of the ranking but they are very much “fine”). It is that people buy them a lot.
You see this with all kinds of brands. “Never buy Shark. Everyone who buys a Shark comes back and return it or buy a new vacuum in a few years”. It isn’t that Sharks are failing more than others (they are actually #1 or #2 according to CR, depending on the metrics). It is that they are what sell the most.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It also has to do with design/repairability. Samsung seems to go out of its way to design their products to be cost-prohibitive to repair and difficult/impossible to disassemble without damaging them. Lots of glue and brittle one-time-use clips. Lots of breakable switches and dials mounted on a custom mainboard.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The most crashed make and model of airplane in history is the Cessna 172.
The most popular make and model of airplane in history is the Cessna 172, in production since the 1950’s and some guy in Kansas is slapping one together as I speak.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
I am communicating my experience. Nothing more.
I haven’t seen fans of Apple act this irrationally…
Badabinski@kbin.earth 6 months ago
I made the mistake of buying a Samsung washer/dryer set in 2017. The washer actually still works and the seal has held up well, but the dryer drum jumped its tracks within the first year, and both have been plagued with gremlins.
Fuck Samsung appliances and honestly most things Samsung sells.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
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floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
Hey, if you managed to keep that front gasket, clean with all of its weird folds, that is an accomplishment in end of itself
SeeFerns@programming.dev 6 months ago
Meanwhile, my parents have some old random branded washer and dryer from the 90s that still works today. A few years ago they replaced a part, something to do with draining. Cost them all of 40 bucks and a couple hours.
They truly, and intentionally, don’t make em like they used to.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
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protist@mander.xyz 6 months ago
I have my great aunt’s Sunbeam waffle iron from the 50s and it still works great. Appliances used to be made to be repairable, and there were appliance repair shops all over the place
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s just survivorship bias. You can absolutely still get reliable appliances that are cheap to repair. I’ve had to replace a few parts on my Maytag dryer (because my wife abuses it), and I only paid like $30 for a coil assembly and replacement sensors. My washer is still going strong after 10 years.
They’re often expensive, but so were reliable appliances in the good ol days. The main problem is that people want relatively cheap stuff, and that cheap stuff is made with cheap parts that don’t last as long.
Appliances used to be major purchases, and the modern consumer wants a cheap new appliance now instead of saving up for months.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Planned obsolescence is very real and one of the reasons we can’t have nice things.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Whenever appliances get brought up I always warn people to stay away from Samsung.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
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brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Stay away from Samsung. Period.
They’ve been on my boycott list for a long time.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
Stay 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.