Fridge with ads should be 1/3 the price with free repairs
Refrigerator ads are finally here!
Submitted 4 months ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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dil@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
Sorry, the best I could do is increase the price by 20% and bombard you with 24/7 ads.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Also ad free refrigerators will be rapidly phased out
Tymothy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Free with free repairs.
subgenius@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“Feed me!”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 months ago
by the way the fridge cost 1800$
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The dystopia is already here ffs…
banause@feddit.org 4 months ago
That’s the whole point of this sub lol
Osan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait why the fuck would a fridge be connected to the internet?
Aeri@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m not defending this practice because it’s remarkably awful but I will note that I have a router that lets me monitor the traffic that individual devices use and most smart devices like this actually use incredibly small amounts of bandwidth. Our smart water tank uses ~10 MB a month which is smaller than most images.
And yes I do think a smart water tank is valid because it can do shit like tell me when it thinks it’s about to explode or leak or whatever and it can also like, be remote controlled, and it has a heat pump which is nice.
Osan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m also not against automation or making machines “smart” it’s just that what companies are marketing nowadays is just mostly overpriced shit.
And by consuming bandwidth I didn’t mean for the indented usage I was mostly talking about the ads which will probably be filled with unnecessary metadata, trackers, unnecessarily large CSS files (if it was web based) and maybe high quality images. All of these things I find completely unnecessary.
Also coming from a computer engineering background if I was living in a “smart households” I would probably want to set up my own firewall. And like I said while I like the idea of home automation I don’t want a corporation to be able to control or access my appliances too.
UltraMagnus@startrek.website 4 months ago
I suppose I’d want to know if my fridge was about to explode… /s
In seriousness, though, you’re right - the problem isn’t with the technology, it’s how the technology is used
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Recently I read an article about smart devices uploading and downloading over 1GB per day. I tried to find the article again but all I can find is stores selling smart fridges etc. Search engines are broken. I asked chatgpt, which was able to find articles. How fucked is this. Boring dystopia. Anyway, here are some sources.
tomshardware.com/…/your-washing-machine-could-be-…
www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/s/F5ETernz6f
www.reddit.com/r/SmartThings/s/HY2E0uOBiH
In the following article they talk about devices sending up to 19MB per week, but only text (so again insane amounts of data considering it’s only text).
consumerreports.org/…/smart-appliances-and-privac…
The following is about researchers finding lots of thirst party domains when analyzing IoT traffic from Smart devices.
The following is an academic paper on how even encrypted data isn’t safe from Smart devices. Bit off topic, but still interesting.
Osan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I tried to find the article again but all I can find is stores selling smart fridges etc. Search engines are broken.
I was able to find some links using duckduckgo including the same article from “Tomshardware” so at least that still works.
Again I don’t know why a washing machine would need an internet connection it’s not like you can remotely load it.
I mean I do understand the appeal and usefulness of smart homes and some IoT devices but companies are pushing AI and internet connectivity like it’s some kind of magic that makes any product better. I mean it would be nice to have a centralised panel to view your usage patterns and consumption but even then you don’t need all this overpowered tech stuff.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
The whole selling points was to track fridge contents via cameras so that not only could you ‚see’ inside without having to open the door - theoretically saving electricity, using AI it was supposed to be able to track expiry dates, and suggest shopping lists in order to have full recipes.
Additionally it had all the usual „smart home” integrations on top of that.
But let’s be honest, the whole point was just to put in yet another screen that vendors could sell advertisements on, as well as track/sell personal information.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
For no good reason whatsoever
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
waiting for the zero day fridge vulns… shouldn’t be long now
Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 months ago
I have seen a video about this shit also being implemented in cars. You can drive down the highway, with your GPS on and a pop up ad appears out of the blue, blocking the screen, not really allowing you to get rid of it before you remove your attention from the road to the screen, trying to figure out what button to push to get rid of the ad.
And the fact that people pay extra for cars and fridges to show them ads is just so friggin stupid. If people buy these products after knowing that they pay extra to be bombarded with ads, its 100% on them.
But in the case of the car, I do feel that shit should be illegal. It’s so fucking dangerous and irresponsible from the manufacturer to implement a “feature” that can cost lives.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Don’t worry, the fridge ones’ll have ads for kids soon, with a candy-coated Buy Now button. Go-o-o *society!*🥳
Atwood’s a gawdamn fortune teller
Nangijala@feddit.dk 4 months ago
Only if people buy those things. I doubt the majority of people wants to pay extra for fridges with screens in them.
I think this shit is a fad that will go away in the same way 3D and VR did despite everyone promising this was the future. It’s too expensive, too impractical and won’t hold up once the novelty wears off.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
bootstrapping problem if you need to drink your Mountain Dew™ verification can before you can open the door.
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Gotta keep some warm ones outside the fridge just for this situation. It only takes a couple of warm Mountain Dew’s to get people back in line.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You bought a fridge with a tv. You knew it was going to happen
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I hate this mentality.
“You did a thing, you knew what was going to happen” is victim-blaming. It’s increasingly hard NOT to buy a device that has some bullshit tech pushed into it, or AI pushed into it. And I’d bet there was nothing on the sales floor about eventual ads.
gergolippai@lemmy.world 4 months ago
i partially agree, but: buying a fridge without a screen is fairly trivial still (luckily). buying a tv that is not “smart” is fucking difficult, and (at least last time I had to do it a couple of years ago) you are basically left with subpar screen technology because the fancy screens go into the crappy smart tv line. the solution is defining for yourself, and accepting the “good enough” level… basically stop caring. life is not about your devices. (unless it’s your homelab.)
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No thanks. I wonder if the damn thing will have a hidden barcode reader.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t recognize this, what’s it from?
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Idk but im seeing cyberpunk, the apartment you have
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Long Live The White Box!
NeilBru@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Dumb” is the new “smart”.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So, if I bought this at Costco, and the fridge was 10 years old, I’d use their guarantee to return the motherfucker and make a huge fucking scene if they tried to refuse.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
By 2030 everyone’s kitchen will look like fucking Times Square
The stairs to your basement will look like the London Underground. We’re going down the fucking tube…
tempest@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Only the poors will have this. Your land Lord is going to go for the cheapest option which will probably have a screen you don’t want with sound you can’t mute.
People buying subzero or other luxury brands will be fine though.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Your entire home will. They’re going to figure out how to pipe ads through every connection you have. When your smoke alarm batteries need changing, it will start blaring ads for Eveready.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And with neurolink, they’ll find a way to shove ads in when you close your eyes and subliminal thoughts
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can feel it coming. I’ve started to devest myself anything that dares to show me an ad. It’s liberating. You don’t actually have to live in their algorithmic black box. RSS still exist, fediverse isn’t going anywhere and the constellation of ad blockers are still doing the Lords work. Fuck the marketers.
RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Fuck off with the fucking ad for pluribus. What the fuck.
It’s a show. Now fuck off.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Appliance repair man here. You can turn the screen off from a cover you remove from the top of the fridge door. Do so. You don’t need a fucking android tablet on your fridge.
Also don’t buy these kinds of appliances. They’re terrible!
Psythik@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What the fuck do they even do? I thought they were supposed to scan the ingredients in your fridge, then tell you what’s about to expire and what recipes you can make. But apparently they can’t even do that, so what purpose do they serve that I can’t already accomplish by bringing my phone into the kitchen?
Can they at least monitor the temperature across different areas of the fridge, or connect to my power meter like my thermostat can and optimize power usage to be lower when electricity is more expensive? Or are they literally just an Android tablet glued to a fridge?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Or are they literally just an Android tablet glued to a fridge?
Yes
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah man, I’ll take my 1990’s ass GE fridge I got for free over one of these any day.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s a significantly better fridge in every way a lot of my clients have a really hard time understanding or believing that.
hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Are there any brands that are total shite these days? We are gonna have to replace our crappy Samsung fridge from 2013 soon.
odelik@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Bosch makes a few descent models.
Things to skip on all brands.
External water & ice dispensers,doesnt matter the brand. You’re cutting a fucking hole in the thermal envelope to put a faulty device that’s experince ing mechanic stress on parts every time you open/close the door. It’s not a matter of if it will fail, but when. Also, increased operational cost. Internal water dispensers and automatic ice makers are always the better option if you want those features.
Smart features. Why the fuck do yiu need smart features on my fridge? Even if it’s using AI vision to scan for recorders… Just no, fucking no. That’s more personal data on you to be bought, sold, data breached, and utilized to fuck you somehow.
Fridges that split the freezer and fridge on a vertically.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I’ve heard that appliances in general and refrigerators specifically, from the last many years are crap. I don’t know what the cut off date is, but I hear that they’re generally made to break after a few years now and don’t have replacement parts for very long. @mechoman444@lemmy.world may have a more informed answer, but it seems to me that people are better off buying old fridges used from friends or relatives.
Zanathos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just bought this one a couple months ago. It goes on sale frequently for $2K from Lowe’s: www.lowes.com/pd/…/5013313509
Pretty sure we got an RMA for the first unit as the door had a scratch and the compressor fan sounded high pitched. Got a next day replacement and no complaints on the second one. Was concerned about sqft as we were coming from a 25sqft but am surprisingly happy with this one.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you’re in the states you’ve probably had the ice maker replaced in that fridge.
I wouldn’t expect it to last much longer definitely count on it breaking down at some point in the very near future.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Buy my ad blocking tape. 0.5 meters only $19.99
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Why on earth would anybody buy a fridge with a screen? Why does everything have to be screens? Why is it all one big mobile phone nowadays? Can’t we just not be staring gormlessly into a flashing screen for two fucking seconds for a fucking change??? I just got back inside from a run and now I’m going outside again for a walk in the dark and the rain because there is an entire world out there that isn’t an algorithmically driven advertising funnel trying to shove more bullshit down our eager eyes, ears, and throats.
Although, while I’m on the subject, the outside world is fucking chock full of ads. I’ve heard it’s relatively trivial to open those advertising windows on bus stops - does anybody know if it would be illegal to open one up and simply place a large black sheet of paper or something in there to cover up the ads? Not damage the ads or remove (i.e. steal) them, but just cover them up to give ourselves and our communities a break from the relentless marketers in our midst?
We deserve not have to our senses monetised and weaponised by perverts who cum themselves dry over CTRs, CLVs, CPCs, SEO, Brand Loyalty, Funnels, and Strategies, Local SEO, whatever else. We deserve to be able to look in any direction when we’re outside and for five minutes not have some massive gaudy advert designed by a bellend pushed into view.
And as for fucking User Personas? I’ve got a User Persona for you, you sick advertising creeps. It’s my fucking ballsack.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why on earth would anybody buy a fridge with a screen?
Because like “smart” TVs, it’s getting more and more difficult to get good ones without the “smart” bits. It might’ve been on sale, and the didn’t realize the avarice at play.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 4 months ago
if i could install and run Home Assistant on this, i could see having a use for it… but that requires me to have complete control, and not samsungs BS
bestelbus22@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bill Burr could have written this
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can see a screen though, if only the consumer had control over it.
Think about the traditional calendar on the fridge - why not update that to digital? It could be a visible central place for lists or white board or notes. Maybe home status notifications or personal locations like the Weasley clock in Harry Potter?
But there are so many reasons for this to be a nonstarter from the manufacturer. Just no. What they should be doing is a modular set of hooks or brackets so you can choose to securely mount items of your choice? Such as a screen you control and can replace when it breaks
Waldelfe@feddit.org 4 months ago
Oh no, who could have ever seen that coming?
Now wait for the subscription service to get rid of ads on the fridge you bought and “own”. Oh, and that neat thing they do with cars now where you have to subscribe to get certain feature? That’s also next. "Only
5$10$20$ per month to keep your fridge cool enough so the milk won’t spoil! It’s not a normal function of the fridge, it’s our super special anti-bacterial option that costs extra.Gremour@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Black Mirror season 7 (I think) has an episode about this. Surgery to fix a part of brain (not cheap) installing a chip. And after some time pay a subscription to get rid of ads. And subscription gets more expensive over time.
jve@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s a pretty good one. Feels almost too on the nose, at times.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sunflier@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can’t wait to see this come to the dadh boards of modern cars. Oh? You’re trying to reverse and make use of your rear-view camera? Watch this 2 minute unskippable ad first.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 months ago
If that happens I’m backing over a child out of spite.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 4 months ago
Your sentiment is understandable but I have some concerns. Children are usually pretty innocent, and worse, they’re often very quick, and surprisingly resilient so even if you do hit them you might not even succeed at causing major injury.
I recommend reconsidering your strategy and backing over a senior citizen instead, it’s almost as effective at creating public outrage, much more reliable, and ideally you might even be able to find a particular senior citizen who, for example, worked as a venture capitalist who funded this sort of technology or something else that implies some measure of responsibility, making multiple contributions to the cause at once and providing some form of karmic justice to the world.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
This is literally already a thing for Jeeps.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
what the fuck? isn’t that a safety issue?
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
As much as there’s ads on everything, using it on safety features would be grounds for a lawsuit
KalSeth@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
like the Cyber truck?
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Please stop buying these & they will stop making them.
sureshot@discuss.online 4 months ago
That’s not really true, we’re at the point where oligarchs basically have the unlimited money glitch, they don’t give a fuck about what the consumers ask for and just demand that we want things that help them screw us over. That’s why every job and every application process demands that prospective employees have their own car and their own smartphone.
Soup@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is capitalism, they will stop making the normal fridges and only make these fucking things. The only power customers truly have is through regulation(though we should still boycott things because it still helps).
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
In which case a new industry appears that makes smart appliances stupid.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Then people will claim no one was buying the normal ones. /looks at light trucks and smartphones with a headphone jack
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
" finally"? How long you been wanting them?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 4 months ago
Everyday I’m cyberpunkin’
falseWhite@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Why does a fridge need a screen to begin with?
Sv443@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
To justify the constant upcharges
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Could be I’m the minority here, but touchscreens stopped feeling like a value add years ago. Somehow I’ve wrapped back around to a good button or knob being the marker of quality. One of the reasons I chose my current vehicle was because they let the most common controls (climate, radio, etc) stay tactile.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Your first mistake was buying anything Samsung.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My place came with samsung laundry machines. I’ve already regretted it.
insomniac199@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This. 100%
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
What’s the fuss about it? It is always nice to have another
screendoom machine around /s
ShamanRonin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Aggressively American
peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Samsung is Korean lol
ShamanRonin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The concept…