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Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by paulddraper »

coldpie wrote: post #175
thedudemabry wrote: post #152

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I was recently in the market for a newer SUV and the thing that struck me about every single touchscreen jammed into them was how obsolete they would seem in the near future. Even now, they're clunky and unappealing visually. My microwave has a MyPlate.gov button on it. May have seemed like a good idea when our home's previous owner renovated back in 2011, but it's silly now. My "smart" TV has an app called WebVideos…

Last winter I walked into a Subaru dealership, ready to plunk down for a brand new Impreza. I live in Minnesota. I wanted AWD and I know how hard it is to find used Subarus, especially when you insist on a stick shift. So I figured I'd just give in and buy new. They didn't have any of the 2015 models at the time, so we test drove a 2014 model. Except for the inadequate number of pedals, it seemed fine. I was ready to…

Wait, what happened to the 2014?

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by paulddraper »

Raphmedia wrote: post #104
EliRivers wrote: post #84

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Those don't fit an iPad, and if you try to make it fit, you'll invalidate the warranty. You'll have to buy the special ones that fit iPads, at the Apple store. 50 dollars. Per strip.

Sorry, we are not talking about the same product. I am talking about rolls of strong double-sided foam tape.

It's sarcasm/hyperbole.

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by paulddraper »

nkrisc wrote: post #108
Splines wrote: post #55

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I have a "smart" washer and dryer. I booted the companion app up, briefly considered what I was actually trying to do, and abandoned the whole thing. At least the things work just fine in an unconnected state. Not to be all "get off my lawn", but some things don't need to be smart.

This is why I go out of my way to be appliances that have no "smart" capability whatsoever. They're useless and I'll probably never use it. I got my 55" TV for hundreds of dollars cheaper than the comparable "smart" varieties, simply because it only did the one thing it was any good at anyway: displaying video output.

Yep, the best thing is when you can compose things.

Like stream Netflix with your laptop, or play games with your Xbox.

Rather than have the thing that does everything poorly.

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by paulddraper »

eloisant wrote: post #225
exelius wrote: post #6

I have a Samsung refrigerator that is supposed to be Internet-connectible. I wasted about 5 minutes on it before giving up. The shoddy quality of the software combined with the low marginal utility of having my refrigerator connected to the Internet just didn't make it worth more than 5 minutes of my time.

Because Samsung, like all hardware companies except Apple, suck at software.

I take it your iTunes account wasn't one of the breached ones.

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by digi_owl »

codemac wrote: post #130

The problem here is not the refrigerator, or the software on it. I repeat. The problem here is not the refrigerator! We're building a shitty internet, not an internet of shitty things. If integrating with an online calendar means having to have a software team at the ready at all times for the whim's of some service's API updates.. we have failed society in a deep way. The API that Google should be releasing for Goog…

The basic problem is the web dev mentality "ship early, ship often", something Google is the master of.

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by shostack »

dragonwriter wrote: post #271
shostack wrote: post #270

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Exactly. To give a related example...look at Windows 10. I want to buy a new computer and will be in the market very soon. But I'm desperately clinging to my Windows 7 OS, and worried I won't be able to find something that ISN'T Windows 10. In fact, I have newfound urgency around this because I'll bet very soon I won't be able to find any Windows 8 computers on the market.

> I want to buy a new computer and will be in the market very soon. But I'm desperately clinging to my Windows 7 OS, and worried I won't be able to find something that ISN'T Windows 10. Its pretty easy to find computers that aren't Windows 10 (e.g., OS X machines are readily available, as are Chromebooks, and there are even sold-with-Linux computers); its harder to find ones that are Windows-but-not-10, but that's a…

I'm a PC gamer, and that is honestly the only reason I am still on Windows.

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by Keverw »

Wow surprised it took them about 3 months to update it... On another note, I was looking at their smart fridge page and if you click the video thumbnail, it opens a video and they used music from Audiojungle with the audio watermark still in it... Guess they didn't bother licensing that track for their ad. http://www.samsung.com/us/appliances/refrigerators/RF28HMELB...

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by EliRivers »

paulddraper wrote: post #282
Raphmedia wrote: post #104

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Sorry, we are not talking about the same product. I am talking about rolls of strong double-sided foam tape.

It's sarcasm/hyperbole.

And also a pop at Apple; equally unpopular!

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by zanny »

rlpb wrote: post #280
zanny wrote: post #279

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I don't think sanity will prevail over profit here. Making shitty unmaintainable flashy software that sells units and hijacks your house through exploits a year later optimally keeps customers buying new fridges, when the only thing wrong with them is awful outdated proprietary code running on it. Its the same reason I feel Ubuntu TV was a flop - as long as consumers make emotional, advertising driven, uninformed, in…

> Its the same reason I feel Ubuntu TV was a flop... I believe Canonical have a grand plan but have just focused on phones first. Since to my knowledge the Ubuntu TV hasn't happened yet, how can it be a flop?

It was announced in 2012, and it has had no development since 2011, and hasn't shipped anywhere either. It wouldn't have been a flop if there wasn't a lot of hype in the tech ecosystem about it as a result of the announcement, but if you announce something you stopped working on a year before and going on four years later haven't come back to, while proprietary smart TVs have basically taken over store shelves in the intervening years, its a flop.

Re: Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator

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Post by pavel_lishin »

simoncion wrote: post #272
pavel_lishin wrote: post #247

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I've had Ubuntu running on my old desktop for a few years now. It's literally a 50% chance as to whether I'll be able to get the GUI login screen to come up, and be able to log in successfully on my first try, without having to ssh in from another machine and fiddle around with things. This isn't an exaggeration. 50%.

Are you running the nouveau driver? If you are, know that it's notoriously unstable and crashy, especially older versions of it. I've installed and run Linux on many computers over the past $WAY_TOO_LONG. Anecdotes aren't data, but your experience is an outlier these days. Regardless. I gather that you're trying to slyly imply that your bad experience with Ubuntu means that Free Software is synonymous with low qualit…

You're right, FS is not an indicator of quality one way or the other, no more than paid software is.
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