Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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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.

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ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lmao that’s what you get for buying a smart fridge. This was inevitable.

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- dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “Thats what you get” comments aren’t helpful or productive. Don’t demonize the customer, demonize Samsung in this case. It’s not the customers fault… I highly doubt it said “Advertisements coming soon” om the box when they bought it.
  
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  - mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I argue it IS customer’s fault. To let Samsung be able to enshittify this much and still stand on the market.
    
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  - ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Smart fridges arent helpful either. Its gimmicky bs from tech giants. The same tech giants that inject ads into everything they can for past 20 years. Genuinely, what did you people expect??
    
    Im not trying to be helpful or productive. Obviously. Im making fun of people for buying dumb shit.
    
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insomniac199@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Another reason to never buy their crap. Not like id buy anything from them ever lol

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cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I see a bright future for “low tech” tech companies soon.

“Here’s our new fridge.

- What does it does?

- It cools your food.

- And?

- That’s it.”

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- Sheldan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Similar to the only white packaging and black text marketing from the xkcd xkcd.com/993/
  
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- Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wonderful! I’ll take two.
  
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- Beebabe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The low-tech appliances in my cheap apartment work pretty great. Just modern enough not to waste a ton of water, but still have knobs and rattle the floors.
  
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  - PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    As it should be
    
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acchariya@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Will they come and collect it for a refund if you don’t agree with the new TOS?

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- ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Probably just break the smart features remotely
  
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  - Patches@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If only. Would not be surprised to break core functionality.
    
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stoly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think that people who would buy a fridge like that deserve to watch ads.

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- some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They probably enjoy it too, sick fucks
  
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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
OBLIGATORY !! Hey TOASTER ! “I’ll PUT YOU ON ICE” OUFFFFF

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Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Good. If your fridge is connected to the internet you deserve to be served ads.

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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a fucking box that makes things cold. Humanity is cooked if we can’t bring ourselves to look away from a screen for all the time it takes to get a slice of cheese out of the fridge

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- Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  “we’ve discovered we can fill 80% of the customers field of view with ads before inducing seizures”
  
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xvertigox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why the fuck would you buy a smart fridge.

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- pezhore@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I just bought a fridge after my 15 year old one shit out. Let me tell you, trying to find a decently sized, dumb fridge with an ice and water dispenser is like finding the holy grail.
  
  Samsung has evidently partnered with some timelords to get over 30 cu ft of fridge space in a 70"tall frame - including their door sized tablet.
  
  Bosch has the next biggest but locks stuff behind an smart app. Hell, even LG has smart features to help you with your ice maker that will probably either be DOA or will break in a year.
  
  I finally found a Whirlpool that isn’t smart and has a decent sized fridge, but it was a struggle.
  
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- prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  When the idea of them first came in to play the thought were items put in would have rfid tags or another identifier and your fridge could help you keep inventory and track when things might be going bad, suggest recipes and whatnot.
  
  We shoulda known it’d be ads tho
  
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  - ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Even so, most expiration dates are a scam. Why would smart expiration dates be any bettet
    
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- interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It should display what is inside the fridge, without the energy loss of a window.
  It should have a bar code scanner and a complete food inventory system.
  It should be the “kitchen’s tablet” able to show recipes, watch cooking instruction videos, have a high quality curated knowledge compedium in a convenient and easy to access way.
  It should be able to stream outside cameras and answer door bells.
  It should be able to take video calls from Mom on XMPP.
  It should have high precision control and diagnostic systems.
  It should run ENTIRELY on open source software, not damn blob drivers, the display panel should connect internally with an HDMI cable.
  Run Proxmox and all my menagerie of LXC containers, don’t cheap out LG!! I want 64 GB RAM and 2tb ssd and a slot to add an HDD.
  It should auto-doomscroll for me while I peel potatoes.
  It should be able to run a smart voice assistance running Mistral 8x70B medium, locally and OFFLINE but networked and answer my agentic commands with a posh british accent.
  
  ok, good enough, send it
  
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  - jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I would buy and work and invest for whatever company you create.
    
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  - cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You got a bit trigger happy for the last few points, but seriously, why isn’t the first 3 standards now. It can’t be that expensive to put that in a fridge, and with an open platform manufacturer could even get away by providing the barest software offering and let us do the job for them.
    
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- glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How else are you going to look at Facebook while you drink milk out of the carton if you forgot your phone in the living room?
  
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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just duct tape an iPad to the refrigerator door. It’s cheaper and it works better.

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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Even cheaper to tape up a piece of paper that says “GO BUY SOME USELESS BULLSHIT”.
  
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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t connect your devices to the Internet if they worked before without the Internet.

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- cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m now at the point where I actively seek out variants of devices that don’t have wifi capabilities. Did that for a ceiling fan and an AC unit. They were a bit cheaper, too, so win-win.
  
  I wonder how long it will take for the “dumb” versions to become more expensive.
  
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  - peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I bought a nice smart TV. Let the wifi connect once to update it. Made it forget my wifi and changed my wifi password. No problems from then on.
    
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- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  but then how will I watch tiktoks on it!
  
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  - ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Presumably on the Smart Clock?
    
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- Chip_Rat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And pay attention if you are buying one that you don’t need to connect it! Let the company know you’ll buy a “dumb” fridge to avoid their bullshit.
  
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tabular@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“Innovation” used to mean better prices and/or better products. Adding adverts to a product you already own isn’t innovation.

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- tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It is innovation.
  
  Just for the company, not for you.
  
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buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d be for this if it resulted in a high quality fridge

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qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ads are one thing, but how the fuck hasn’t Bixby been killed and buried yet???

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- Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It captures them a shitton of data that they very likely sell or use to get advertisers on board.
  
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laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone who bought one of these ridiculous monstrosities and didn’t expect ads is an idiot.

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captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Anyone who fell into the trap of buying a fridge with a screen in it kind of deserves this.

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah but imagine how cool stuff could be if companies didn’t 100% of the time ruin their inventions
  
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  - Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don’t disagree but what’s also true is that some products are already as good as they can get and no longer need innovation. I know this is a bold claim but I’d argue that my dumb fridge without screen or internet connection keeps my food just as cool as the latest smart fridge.
    
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  - starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I literally can’t imagine a box that makes things cold being made cooler by having a screen on it
    
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- kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I hear what you are saying. But our society is pretty fucked up if you “deserve” something bad because you bought a product without imaging how the manufacturer can make it worse in the future.
  
  The owners should be able to return the product if something like this happens, no matter how long ago they bought it.
  
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  - cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    without imaging how the manufacturer can make it worse in the future.
    
    We reached the point where companies do shitty things with all their digital services years ago. As long as it’s not open source, you’ll get shit “features”. And even if it is open source, it can be reverted on a whim (hello bambulab).
    
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  - skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes, some people think that naiveté is worse than malice or cruelty for sone reason…
    
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  - lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Help! My spy machine is spying on me!
    
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PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It was bad enough getting ads at the gas pump

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- lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  - ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Fast charging stations tend to have the brightest, most gigantic ad video screens. So big that you’re subjected to them merely passing by and not even using the charger. I suspect they’re brighter than the sun because they get cheap subsidized energy to run the ad screens since it’s “for charging green cars” and they’re using a loophole.
    
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Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just cut out the middleman and order the Mountain Dew Code Red for me already

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phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers.

Awesome, you’re going to make my life…

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.

Worse.

Fuck Samsung

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phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And we call it “smart forward”

Fuck Samsung

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madjo@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Should be a free fridge then.

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DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But can I remotely control it with my phone? You know, because when I’m at work, I might want to remotely open the door.

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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  my wifi toilet lets me shit remotely.
  
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  - dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My normal toilet lets me shit remotely. Who the hell has a toilet that only lets them shit at home?
    
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- JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They don’t do that, but they do send you a push when the fridge door is left open. Which has literally saved my bacon many times.
  
  But that doesn’t need a screen. Why you’d want a screen on your fridge, I don’t understand. It’ll clearly be slow and obsolete long before the rest of the fridge is.
  
  It’s the same thing in car infotainment systems. They’re the first thing to feel dated, and they are increasingly difficult to replace. But at least they give a ton of value from the screen.
  
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  - BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Our fridge dings when the door has been left open. I’m not sure why you would need anything more than an audible ding for the door being left open.
    
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chisel@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And Samsung just got rid of ads in their apps, like Samsung Health, a few years ago. One step forward, two sprints back.

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_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
call me old-fashioned, but you don't need a fridge with a fucking screen in it.

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- anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  More than this we don’t need smart TVs I wanna dump high quality image tv
  
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  - onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You can sometimes disable a lot of the smart TV bullshit if you put it in gaming mode. For some models it disables a lot of the smart features to improve performance.
    
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Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Useless display in refrigerators finally revealed as corporate ploy to install billboard in consumer’s kitchens.

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uzay@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers.

Is it opposite day already?

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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This would already be illegal if we didn’t live in corporate dictatorships.

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Best I can offer in the US is a spiraling rapid descent into fascism.
  
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  - WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “All of the alternatives are corporate dictatorship”
    
    Guess I’ll die
    
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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tfw u set up Pihole so ur fridge stops spamming you with ads.

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- jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Used to be I would spam my pie hole with junk from the fridge.
  
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- napkin2020@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or just block internet access completely.
  
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  - RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is the way. Although, when I did this to my Samsung television, it eventually began to display dialog boxes complaining that it was having trouble accessing the Internet. So I had to completely delete all network settings in the TV and give up the ability to control it through Home assistant. Annoying.
    
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  - PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How can I watch Roblox let’s plays in my kitchen then hmmmm
    
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- wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wonder how much longer that will work. DNS over HTTPS is now a thing and totally defeats the mechanism of a pihole.
  
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  - Godnroc@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m speculating, but it wouldn’t change a thing. You would still need to request domain addresses from a server somewhere, but traffic between your device and server would be encrypted in transit. The DNS server would also be verifiable to prevent imitators.
    
    So, the request would go to the PiHole and if it was not being filtered the PiHole would make the request of whatever upstream server is configured same as before.
    
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  - MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Maybe block the DoH endpoint and in theory the device might fall back to normal DNS, dunno if that would work.
    
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  - PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    VPN running on a WRT router? I know very little about this stuff I just know the buzzwords for street cred.
    
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expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
when you buy an over-engineered appliance, if i feel like spending extra $$$ for a fridge, i’d rather go for quality steel panels and compressor, not an screen with wifi

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- Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Make me a nuclear blastproof fridge. Wtf do I need a screen for? What does the wifi do for me? Does it tell me if I am out of eggs? I fucking thought not.
  
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  - CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Back in the 50s and 60s fridges got cold. The racks were made out of metal so they lasted forever. We could build fridges like this, but we choose not to.
    
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Or just the average sense of impending doom?
    
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  - RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Pretty sure it can, but idk how good it is.
    
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BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My parents bought a fancy Samsung fridge with a screen 5 years ago. We bought LG. In the first year they had theirs serviced 6 times before replacing it with the same LG fridge we have. Earlier this year right before the extended warranty ran out the compressor on my fridge died. They’ve not had a single problem with theirs yet.

My brother bought a Samsung TV that was supposed to be better than my LG OLED. In the first year the anti glare coating wore off enough that there are bright spots you can’t not see. My LG TV is fine.

Typed on my Samsung phone.

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- madjo@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Remarkable that there were no typos in that post, despite being typed on a Smasnug phone
  
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  - BallShapedMan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    🤣🤣🤣
    
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- cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I couldn’t even list all the horror stories I’ve heard firsthand about Samsung appliances, including massive damage to people’s houses caused by leaks.
  
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  - ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    We bought our gas oven from Samsung and the front right burner wouldn’t light after a few weeks. We got a full refund, but the front right burner started working again a few months later, and we still use the stove, though the oven light epileptically glitches every time we open the oven.
    
    So, sure, you could pay for things that actually work. But it’s like that tagline at the end of Samsung advertisements:
    
    Samsung: Buy Samsung, Then Get All Your Money Back, And Possibly Also Receive A Mostly Working Appliance For Free.
    
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  - rem26_art@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    When my parents were shopping for a washing machine a couple of years ago, they asked their friend who works at Home Depot what seemed to be reliable and he basically said "anything but Samsung". They had way more Samsung returns than anything else.
    
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