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Refrigerator ads are finally here!
Submitted 5 months ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Samsung appliances used to be durable.
I had a Samsung washing machine for about two decades. We deciced to replace it with another Samsung, it already has a big crack in the plastic after a year of use and the top is all scratched just by dragging the clothes out.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 months ago
Damn, South Korean industry really going the way of American car manufacturing, huh?
oppy1984@lemdro.id 5 months ago
Speed Queen, my parents bought one in 1992 and it lasted over 20 years with almost no issues. When it finally started needing regular maintenance mom replaced it and got another Speed Queen, ten years later not a single issue yet.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Washing machines from 10 years ago are not comparable to the washing machines now and their build quality. Even the speed Queen ones from then to now are far different
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m ready to move to a commune. But like… not a hippie Luddite commune that shirks all technology. Just one that isn’t fucking insane about the tech in their lives. basically one that rewinds a bit back towards maybe the early to mid 2000s. Where we had a of the tech in a still mostly uncorrupted form.
Its like “the village” for people who are utterly exhausted by corporate greed. Someone get M. Night Shammalamma or whatever on the phone.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’m actively looking for people who would be interested in building a Gay Furry Commune in Massachusetts.
With pooled assets, we can actually AFFORD to buy some land AND build on it.
jade52@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I work in tech, and literally have had this conversation multiple times with my other friends that work in tech. We are all completely exhausted.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
If you and your friends agree that you want to be part of a commune… Well, there you go! Go and found one!
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
An interesting, to me, aside: The luddites were not, as is commonly taught, anti-technology. They were protesting against the consolidation of money/power that technology was making possible. We don’t want to teach class warfare though.
Zier@fedia.io 5 months ago
Thank god fridges have ads now. I have been so unhappy not knowing what to purchase every day of my life. Now my fridge can tell me all the things I should purchase to fill up my home and go so deep into debt that I will be homeless.
Thanks Samsung, I was too stupid to do this without you.
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/sFlax_vert@feddit.uk 5 months ago
You can have the Times Square experience right from home!
Zier@fedia.io 5 months ago
I'm going to order a huge rug for my livingroom with a massive condom ad on it. Everyone will be so envious of my decor.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Tragically, some marketing dipshits and more than a few executives had this exact same thoughts about us without the /s.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Need to be able to jailbreak these and put your own stuff on it.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Like Doom.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
This… Is acceptable.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Never wanted one of these… now I want a fridge that runs Doom.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You can roll your own with Magic Mirror
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What am I looking at?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Start watching
On what, the fucking fridge?
heavy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Now you know to think twice before buying Samsung anything
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It’s a smart fridge; they didn’t even think once when they bought it
titanicx@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I don’t know there are a lot of features on a smart fridge that are pretty cool a lot of things that actually can come in handy that I really appreciate it when I considered purchasing one. I’m glad that I didn’t make the purchase before they came out with this idiotic bullshit.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Samsung recently released UI 8 for Android, which had the astounding forward-thinking and innovative move of removing the ability to silence your phone by hitting the volume down button
idk what phone I’m gonna buy next, but that’s the last straw with Samsung for me. I’m already sick of them changing features on the phone to make them worse, like how in order to do a partial screenshot (a feature I used to use a lot) you now need to click the button and wait a few seconds for the “AI” to think about what portion of the screen to select. you cannot skip this waiting period. you cannot disable this (that I have found). you cannot ‘undo’ when you draw a box around a section that includes text and it tries to helpfully extract the text for you instead of just fucking taking a screenshot of the highlighted portion of the screen
fuck Samsung
Harvey656@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh thank fuck I disabled updates holy hell my phone would be in a billion pieces and my wife would kill me for destroying my phone.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I like my Motorola it’s on the cheaper side but it has an AUX and a disturbingly good battery. Still android so you have to deal with BS, but hey the slightly better model has an microSD card slot so that’s good I guess.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you’re that fed up, may as well buy an iPhone and root/flash the thing to a custom OS, or another Samsung, and do the same thing. Those brands have consistently had the best hardware, so if you’re gonna just nuke the software anyway, which is your best option, may as well get the hardware that you want.
ScrollerBall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I never connect smart shit to my internet but I’m sure eventually they won’t function until you do.
haulyard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bought a new stove recently that wouldn’t alllow the air fry mode to be used unless it was connected to WiFi.
Threeme2189@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
What the fuck?
Name and shame.
BTW, I hate all of this ‘air fry’ nonsense, we’ve had convection (fan force) baking for decades.
RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Horrifying
Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
If they do tgat I will mod it.
solrize@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I saw a daily Home Depot special for “smart toilets” and my first thought was “you mean I can’t poop if AWS is down?!”.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why would anyone spend the money to have this in the first place? It’s absolutely laughable.
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Pihole I bet would prevent those ads. Or it would crash and stop cooling…
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I fail to see a why a fridge would need a touchscreen in the first place. Like whats the reasoning?
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Hello, yes, can I get some cold?
We have $499 cold (ad supported) and $1599 cold (ad free).
yobasari@feddit.org 5 months ago
Except that the one with ads is more expensive.
fullsquare@awful.systems 5 months ago
achoo
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 months ago
But no, someone thought it’d be cool to be able to surf the web on the fridge. Well, here you are.
fullsquare@awful.systems 5 months ago
There’s a slight chance that we’ll see a
Sent from my fridge using Tapatalk
in the future
neuroneiro@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s an option in the settings app that allows you to turn ads off.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh, how kind of Samsung. Pray they don’t alter the deal further.
fullsquare@awful.systems 5 months ago
For now
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I already decided to stop buying Samsung TVs when they started showing ads in the menus.
I imagine other consumers will start to make similar choices with their appliances.
Whatever exec thought this was a good idea probably already got a huge bonus and will move on to ruin another company’s products before the impact to their bottom line is felt.
nervousnerd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But you can’t make that choice if every brand does it. And then they can make it not function properly without internet access. They will force the internet of shit on us.
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The number one feature on my list when buying a TV (or any appliance really) is “dumb”.
Maybe someone should start an appliance brand called DUM and capitalize on this. Plain, no frills, extreme durability appliances. I’d buy!
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Any non-smart TVs you would recommend? And what would be your preferred streaming device?
I think a good balance would be a TV that only supports casting either with Chromecast or AirPlay or something similar. The last Chromecast I bought couldn’t even keep up with 4k streaming but 4k streaming works fine on my smart TV.
nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 5 months ago
Ngl, that appearing on your fridge fits the show so well though. Points to Apple for abusing Samsung’s choice to put ads on a fucking fridge
scytale@piefed.zip 5 months ago
The best part about this is it’s an ad for Pluribus, where without spoiling anything, a message like that would absolutely work in the show.
bored_boar_onboard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bravo, Vince!
P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Honestly, it’d work in the 5th element, or judge dredd, total recall, Cyberpunk 2077, the outer worlds, etc.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
It is a perfectly placed ad.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Imagine that. You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access. And it uses all of that stuff to display ads to you. You’re literally paying for every ad it shows you.
0_0j@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now who’s the patsie
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access.
That’s a good point actually. You can eliminate these ads by taking it off the Wi-Fi.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Why you’d connect it to the internet in the first place is a mystery to me
caboose2006@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you paid me just 5 bucks a month I’d let them install that fridge in my house.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, I might accept that.
Actually, I could use a new fridge…
Ok, who wants to pay me a subscription fee to give me a fridge? Get in line, I’ll only be accepting applicants today!
thurstylark@lemmy.today 5 months ago
That’s exactly the thing that turned me off cable. I’m not interested in paying for a service that’s going to pipe ads into my home. OTA TV, fine, I’m not paying for that. When I can pay for services that don’t show me ads, why would I pay for one that does?
MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yeah, but you end up paying extra to not see ads, so… it’s the same thing either way.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When I can pay for services that don’t show me ads, why would I pay for one that does?
Don’t worry, they are gradually taking that option away too.
solrize@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Joke’s on you: product placement in movies. The ads are already there.
graycube@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is it AI powered too?
Rothe@piefed.social 5 months ago
Most likely. But even if it isn’t, it will soon be after the next firmware update.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wow. Not even a tasteful design, just turning the fridge into a full fledged highway billboard. Disgusting.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Disconnect it from ty Internet for starters. Why else would a company want to sell you a fridge with a screen?
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 5 months ago
What is the purpose of a screen on a fridge? Is this common (without the ads)?
If not, how would you not notice when you buy it. You’d need to be utterly oblivious.
Maybe they just have unnecessarily contrived fridges where this person is.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 months ago
One more step closer to the old Twilight Zone episodes where the machines come alive.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
A piece of cardboard and some tape will take care of that.
pyre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
i think eventually we’re gonna have to deal with the reality that audio/video advertising needs to be outlawed. keep it in print if necessary.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Why does there still need to be advertisements though?
I’d completely ban marketing altogether. Their only purpose is to hack human brains in order to get them to buy stuff they otherwise wouldn’t. They are the reason we have overconsumption.
pyre@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think allowing print and physical media would enable using signs outside your building, use branding on your documents, etc. plus make it more valuable for the already dying media of print, and also pretty much make advertising an opt in situation since you can choose to engage in it, rather than having something like the fucking sphere blazed into your retina with the power of 15 suns in the middle of the night.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Start with the example of the city of São Paulo, the 4th largest city in the world, which banned all outdoor advertising many years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
balsoft@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Banning “marketing” in general is impossible. In order for humans to survive, we need to acquire means of sustenance. With division of labor, you cannot acquire all the means of sustenance you need by yourself or within your local community. As such, a market is necessary to exchange commodities, including means of sustenance and means of production, and the mere act of bringing a commodity to a market is, by definition, marketing.
Banning advertising in general is more possible, but probably a bad idea. Imagine you want to buy bread. How would you go about that? Look for a “bakery” sign? Whoops, that’s advertising, can’t have that. Your best bet then is, like, going into every single open door on the street until you find a bakery, which doesn’t sound good at all.
What we should do is regulate advertising down to its minimum necessary function, which is helping people find what they are already looking for, plus maybe PSA type of ads (e.g. reminding you to get vaccinated and stuff). So yeah, most modern ads should be banned, but some should be kept because there is some actual use in them.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 5 months ago
How would you even do that? Marketing is tied up into every single purchasing decision we make. The colors and fonts on the packaging; the perceived value or luxury of the store you’re buying it from; the placement of the products within that store; the price of the product itself. All of these signal things about the perceived value of the product and influence what people purchase.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
There are some things I want to know about that may or may not be considered advertising. Stuff like a band I like going on tour, or a video game I’m interested in releasing.
Maybe in your world those could just be like opt-in newsletters.
SpiderUnderUrBed@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I disagree. I think that’s far too extreme, there shouldn’t be blanket bans because big tech ruins it for everyone, it harms stuff like minor indie creators or small buisnesses, that being said it needs to be HEAVILY regulated, like fridges should never have ads nor any smart appliance
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I don’t think a content provider should be allowed to have more than 5-10% of their content be advertisements.
Website screen space, newspapers, tv channels, etc
Instagram shouldn’t have more than 1-2 sponsored post for every 20 posts. At the moment it seems closer to 10.
An hour long TV slot shouldn’t have more than 3-6 minutes of advertisement. At the moment it’s closer to 20-30.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 months ago
How about… we go a step further and just stop making appliances “smart”?
My toaster doesn’t need AI to tell the difference between a fucking bagel and a slice of bread. They already figured out solutions to this shit decades ago.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What about QVC tho
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 5 months ago
It could be moved onto a special “reservation” where it could continue to live in its own way, with its ancient customs and traditions.