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Sometimes I wonder why people buying smart fridge in first place, it’s just fridge with touchscreen panel on it, what makes it’s so special compared to other fridges that has better cooling technology or bigger capacity or better electricity consumption
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Yesterday morning, I woke up to a notice on my fridge alerting me that one of my favorite features was going away.
And while that turned out not to be the case — the confusion highlights how precarious smart appliance features can be.
“The notification was sent in error, and a correction will be released.” I also asked Langlois if he could explain why this happened and how many fridges sent out this message.
It offers hundreds of live TV channels with news, sports, and plenty of classic TV (there’s an entire channel dedicated to Baywatch reruns and another to Degrassi Junior High), alongside movies on demand.
I’m still waiting for that pop-up telling me all is good, but I’m definitely relieved I’m not losing the option to watch TV Plus on my fridge.
But I like to have the T2 Tennis Channel on while I scramble eggs or pop on a news show while cooking dinner.
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Dumb fridges for never. Just keep the food cold.
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So now Samsung fridges won’t play TV shows or cool the food?
I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to watch TV on their fridge.
I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to watch TV
on their fridge.I was sat in the optician’s waiting room the other day, and there was some cheap gameshow on the TV, where people would win like £20.
I couldn’t believe that people would even film it, let alone broadcast it.
Watching broadcast TV is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, not wanting to choose and just asking the waiter to pour any old slop down your gob.
Yeah, I just watch TV at the gas pump like everyone else.
2nd button down on the right, press twice to mute
The aspect ratio of the screen doesn’t seem like it’d be all that ideal.
Since it now the norm for everyone to film everything with a smartphone and in the vertical position (I’m old enough that this still hurts my soul), Ive hypothesized that it won’t be long before we start seeing a lot of tvs in this format.
Ow! Now my soul is taking splash damage.
Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.
I prefer Stardew Valley
How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.
The reporter’s use case actually makes a lot of sense to me. I would never buy one of these, but I wouldn’t be opposed to using something like this if I ever ended up with one.
It’s not like I stand in front of it and watch a whole movie in my kitchen. But I like to have the T2 Tennis Channel on while I scramble eggs or pop on a news show while cooking dinner. Plus, it’s nice to have a kitchen screen that doesn’t take up counter space.
Or just put some adhesive flat magnets on your tablet.
I’m sure there’s flat magnets you can put on your tablet.
Now that’s the funniest utopian phrase
as an appliance salesperson at a well-known home-improvement retailer, i do just about whatever i can to stop people from buying Samsung appliances. They’re garbage. They overstuff their appliances with way too much unnecessary tech that nobody wants, and in order to keep the costs from being astronomical, they cut on build quality. Countless customers come in to replace Samsung appliances that failed far before their expected lifespan, often breaking within the first few years.
you want reliable? go with LG or GE. Whirlpool is also pretty decent.
Isn’t LG having issues with their linear compressors?
Have they? I’d like to hear some more information about that, especially if you have any links.
Ohoho man
LG is also being shitty about it, claiming everyone agreed to arbitration by reading it on the box.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/consumer/lg-refrigerators-failures-update/3465620/
I’m constantly replacing the drain pump in my LG washer. When a replacement part has thousands of reviews on amazon, you know the brand has to know their parts are crap and either doesn’t care or wanted it that way. They’re on my never buy list now.
What do you define as “constantly”? Once a year, every two years, twice in 20 years?
Anecdotal, but I’ve had my lg washer, dryer, dishwasher, fridge, and gas stove for about 10 years and none of them have had any issues at all. I didn’t get them because I was super into LG, they were cheap - open box, dented, or floor model - and it just worked out that way, but still, zero issues with any of it.
Maybe it’s just that model tho, and that’s legit. Sometimes there’s just a shit offering, but the rest of the line is decent.
But a lot of times, parts fit multiple brand’s machines, or multiple models within the same brand. Especially something like a drain pump, which is super basic and could be used in dishwashers as well as literally all of their brand washers, for example. Solid chance the reason for the large number of reviews is compatibility with other models rather than lg sucking that hard for that model. But without knowing the exact part I can’t say.
4 times in the last 5 years.
There’s a combination of flaws. The strainer basket doesn’t do a very good job keeping debris out of the impeller. There’s little separation between the steainer and the impeller. So long hairs that are partially caught in the strainer can still wrap around the impeller.
The pump itself has a terrible impeller design. The impeller is nylon and is press fit onto a 1/8 brass rod that just has a flat ground on it, no knurling or splines. The nylon cracks easily and ends up free spinning.
They use the same pump in loads of washer models. So yes, there’s a very large user base, but that’s a lot of people with part failures. The pump is garbage and lg should not be using it.
That’s a legitimate complaint, but if you bought it within the last 5 years or whatever, it’s possible they saw error and changed, assuming that’s the same part they used.
Or maybe, and I find this much more likely, the one you got on Amazon was disguised trash like everything else from Amazon and it’s not actually the OEM parts causing the issue since it’s always the same shitty part that fails. You got unlucky with the oem part, then bought trash on Amazon (basically everything on Amazon is knockoff, nothing is quality) and have been replacing it since.
If you bought the replacement pump from an OEM part supplier or other official supplier for replacements, and continued to have the issue, sure, but at this point you are giving an extended Amazon review as a review of the machine itself. And that’s not remotely fair to the unit, because Amazon is trash and won’t even let you post negative reviews anymore (try it, good luck).
How old is this appliance? And what do you mean by constantly?
LG all the way. I have not had much in the way of positive results from GE since their acquisition by Haier. Their build quality took an immediate and noticeable nosedive. I have seen DOA, damaged, and defective units of all stripes from all brands over the years. But I have never seen any units arrive from the factory not fully assembled, but still packed up in a box and shipped in that state, except from GE. Multiple times.
I received a PFE28 refrigerator with no ice maker mechanism, just a hole in the door where it should have been installed. I also received a CGS700 range with the oven light door switch not installed, just rolling around in the bottom of the oven cavity where it was subsequently baked by the customer. I also received one CXE22 refrigerator with no face panel on the center drawer. There are other examples but those are just the recent ones I can remember off the top of my head.
Haier’s management philosophy seems to be in lockstep with the Chinese Manufacturing Way, which is to steal whatever tech you can, do a slapdash job of making it, lie about everything, and when pressed about it just lie some more.
Honestly Whirlpool is not doing great these days, either, but they’re better than Samsung or GE. Whirlpool has seemingly devolved into mostly competing with itself with all of its various sub-marquees: Amana, Maytag, KitchenAid, Gladiator, Jenn-Air, Roper, Affresh, etc. A better strategy might be to compete with their, you know, competitors. Whirlpool’s warranty service network has also essentially evaporated over the last few years, so if you don’t already know a repairman who is Whirlpool factory authorized to do warranty work you may as well just open a Youtube tab and figure that shit out yourself. Otherwise you’ll just be told “there are no servicers or service dates in your area and the system only lets us look two weeks in advance” over and over again until your warranty runs out.
The less we say about Samsung the better. At one point we were experiencing a roughly 50/50 first-week failure rate of their laundry machines and dishwashers. A coin flip. That’s worse odds than a first run XBox 360 not red ringing itself to put it into perspective. Don’t buy a Samsung appliance no matter how shiny it is or how big of a touch screen it’s got.
Although GE has delivered one or two problematic appliances, overall the customers I’ve had have had pretty great experiences with them, especially since higher bought majority share from them. Overall, I haven’t heard any complaints aside from teeny weenie ones. But I’ll keep My ears open.
you want reliable? go with LG or GE.
Going to have to disagree based on personal experience (which admittedly has limited value). Bought LG washer, dryer, and fridge when we moved. The washer blew the clutch seal after about 4 and a half years. The dryer sensor is unreliable (leading to taking jeans or blankets out, them still being damp, and having to put them back in on a timer). And the fridge compressor sounds like it’s struggling.
The most absurd part is that we replaced the washer with a similar LG model (one with an agitator - I looked into just replacing the part but it was half the price of the washer, the underside of the impeller was moldy because lack of water flow, something no amount of tub clean cycles will fix, and the outer bucket was absolutely disgusting from the leak, with no easy way to hose it out) because everything else was either crap, ridiculously expensive, or both.
I hate this timeline.
Smart fridges are such a stupid idea. Fridges last like 30 years, why would you integrate a computer that is going to reach end-of-life in less than 5 years?
Just get a fucking tablet and use it in the kitchen.
Fridges last like 30 years
To be fair, these are Samsung.
Samsung isn’t what they used to be. 5-10 years ago they were fine but they’ve really gone downhill with customer support and quality. I’ll be looking at another manufacturer next time I need an SSD.
I’d be happy if my fridge had some sort of optional rack for an arbitrary tablet, with power supply or even a traditional paper calendar . Even happier if it had cheap simple Zigbee/z-wave/Thread sensors - let me choose to do or not do anything with them
If these things all used Raspberry Pi compute modules, they could be reflashed with custom roms. Just loading stock Kodi would do most of what you might want put of a kitchen computer.
There’s no reason they need so much processing, something that expensive. All you need is very cheap sensors - it really needs to be from the manufacturer for power and to get a signal through the metal skin.
Minimal software, no required online services or planned obsolescence, no privacy violations or data collection, no confusion for anyone who chooses not to use it, very minimal price increase. Since I can track power consumption externally if I want, I’m not sure what you’d even want beyond temperature monitoring and alerts
It’s not worth all the compromises.
But having a camera inside the fridge so you can check if you need something when you’re at the store has definite utility.
While that sounds like a good idea, I can’t see that working. You’d need many cameras and even then some stuff would be hidden behind others
Still wandering what use has such a simple machine like a fridge for a 32" screen…
Porting Skyrim onto it?
Can it run Crysis?
There are two (fairly lackluster) uses for it.
The first is that it has a camera with a large fisheye that can show you the inside (though this is more useful when away from the fridge rather than using the screen). The issue is the camera is only at one point. The fisheye helps see more, but it can never see all the fridge.
The second is as a home assistant in the kitchen. This is actually useful. It can display recipes and whatever in it whole you cook. You can also use a phone, tablet, or other home assistant device for this though, but if you want to throw away money this does seem convenient.
