A refrigerator should never need an update. Smart appliances are the stupidest shit I ever heard of. A refrigerator should not need anything but an outlet and maybe a water connection.
look, i wouldn’t mind a dashboad where i could see when the dishwasher was run, that the rinse fluid is low, the temperature in the fridge ans freezer over time, how many times the ice machine refilled, when the AC on…
smart devices could have been cool.
what we got was the ability for the power company to turn of my fridge, requiring a broken app to run cycles on a dishwasher, and spying for no benefit in every device.
The idea has promise and i hold a small glimmer of hope for home assistant. But, like so many things companies did not give anyone what they wanted.
I’ve run a household for 20 years and never needed anything like this
Need != could be useful
I’ll take my dumb gadgets over this smart bs any day, thanks.
especially one that is controlled by AI.
Don’t buy AI hardware 😂 My god the stupidity.
They just have to add useless shit into something like a fridge and make everything “smart”. The profit margins must be so slim on any kind of standard house appliance. They can’t just seel a fridge that just keeps your food cold, isn’t too expensive, noisy, etc… because most of the offer that and they need this summers buzzword to stand out, or even to please the investors.
this it 2k-3k fridge that have ads on it.
If you buy smart appliances, you’re a fucking retard
Wish they gave me a thousand upvotes for this.
Humans are doomed if they need AI in a freaking fridge!
I’ve spent 20 days waiting for a part from China to (hopefully) repair my 18 year old very basic fridge because I refuse to get some stupid fucking touchscreen internet connected advertising box.
I fucking hate the modern world.
even fridges within the last 10-15 years are crappy. only the ones from early 2000s, or pre-2000 last a long time.
There were a ton of crappy fridges from back then, too. It’s just that most of them have already died.
The difference is almost ALL appliances built today are designed to die around the time the warranty expires. And, yes, I realize that’s been a trope for a long time, but now it’s far more true than it used to be. It used to be a joke, because it happened rarely, now it’s not a joke because it happens often.
Twenty years from now, there won’t be any appliances built today, still running.
This isn’t survivorship bias. The internet taught us that term specifically to excuse enshittification.
I have smart lights that can be controlled over the internet.
If the internet connection goes down, I can also control them locally.
If the local network fails, I have physical light switches.All smart devices should fail into a safe and functional mode when the smart features inevitably stop working. It seems Samsung doesn’t subscribe to that philosophy.
If you buy a refrigerator that needs an internet connection, you deserve this tbh
It’s a box that makes stuff cold for ffs ain’t no damn 1s or 0s required
This is dumb, but what’s even dumber is making a device that can even fail in that way to start with. I’d have expected the core refrigerator function to be isolated in some way from the rest of the device.
Samsung has apologized and will send engineers over the Chuseok break.
Yeah? Will those Samsung engineers also replace my spoiled food? Of course not, shame on me for buying an AI fridge I guess
Fuckers
If I bought an AI Fridge and this happened, I would most certainly immediately decide and accept “This is the direct consequence of my choices. This is my fault. I had this coming. I deserve this.”
What can an AI do for our fridge? I asked myself as I swiped my credit card for a multi thousand dollar purchase. Surely it must do something. Surely this must be an improvement on a dumb box that keeps things cold. I want to talk to my dumb box that keeps things cold, this is certainly a good idea.
I’m assuming that the AI fridge helps you skip the ads that your IoT smart fridge plays?
You’d think so!
Unfortunately it just permanently listens to everything going on in your house, tracks every family member’s sleep cycles, eating habits, evaluates your household income based on how often it is restocked and what your brand loyalties are, then feeds all that information to a third party advertising company who sell it to the highest bidder and split the profits with smasnug before showing everyone in the home exactly the right ads to manipulate them into buying more slop.
It is a really poor design choice to tie the smart screen to the core function of the refrigerator. They apparently haven’t heard of the idea of fail safe.
They have.
But failing safe doesn’t get them monthly subscriptions.
Can’t wait until sex toys become over Ai’d. If you don’t pay your pocket pussy subscription and you run out of time mide session; you’ll have to pay to get your dick back.
wait until they start selling your, erm, ‘habits’ to data brokers and we start seeing websites selling “what are they into” kind of data to people. (people including your employer… )
NO ONE COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS RIDICULOUS INEVITABILITY
I blame Gilfoyle. Fucking Gilfoyle.
Never buy Samsung appliances.
The refrigerators are truly terrible.
All their other appliances are perfectly fine. Just don’t connect them to the internet. In fact, don’t connect any of your appliances to the internet. Ever.
I had a client who bought a house with a Whirlpool double oven that connected to the internet, and it locked itself out because it thought the oven had been stolen.
I had to replace the control panel. It cost $1,100.
Is there some sort of epidemic of people stealing double ovens from homes? Why does a double oven need a touchscreen and a Wi-Fi connection? It even has a sensor for the ambient temperature in the kitchen.
An oven is supposed to do one thing: heat your food. That’s it. It shouldn’t be able to prepare your teenager for the SATs.
