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Why I will never buy another Samsung device

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Post by ShamelessC »

nefitty wrote: post #477
natch wrote: post #193

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>even from developer friends? "Apple can no longer innovate." You could consider getting new friends who are more intelligent. Some people are being fooled by the fact that a rectangle shape is staying consistent year after year, a very surface attribute. Apple does deep work. People who think only the surface matters are missing the story.

I love the idea of explaining a company's process as "deep work"! To me it resonates re Apple and I'm now intrigued on who else falls into that category. For some reason Google does not seem to fit, possibly because of Xoogler anecdotes I've read here. GitHub seems close but maybe too scattered in many directions (for example, they seem to have some new huge feature in beta every other week). Airbnb does deep work fr…

Valve.

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Post by hef19898 »

dredmorbius wrote: post #386
southerntofu wrote: post #382

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> They're a slimy company made up of unscrupulous people trying to squeeze every last drop out of every rock. Unfortunately, i find it hard in this day and age to find a hardware manufacturer that's not abusive. Do you know of a hardware manufacturer that has a reasonable warranty policy, makes it easy to repair the hardware (no screws or standard screws, definitely no glue), publishes datasheets (specs) and does not…

For laptops, Lenovo are ... just barely, and only on some product lines, holding that reputation. System76 and Framework seem to have this reputation. I've yet to buy from them, but they're on my list of potential vendors. Fairphone, Librem, and Pine, similarly. I'd look to Louis Rossman for reviews and recommendations.

I like Lenovo, even more since they started native and firmware support for Ubuntu on some of the laptops. When it comes to phones, I think a Pixel running a non-Google Android version seems to be decent. At least my old Pixel 2 is. Not really looking forward to replacing it... But the screen is shot (again... the main reason why I never come to sell a used phone...).

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Post by Angostura »

josephg wrote: post #357
virtue3 wrote: post #304

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worked for a company doing apps for smartTVs. They all do it. Incessently. I made ad games that would pop up when the system recognized a certain ad was playing. you were supposed to be able to opt out of this but LG got busted in the UK for not listening to that option. This was back in 2013 era. It's worse by now I'm sure. They'd straight up send a screencap of whatever was on your screen every second for content r…

Yep. I have a smart tv. (What other kind exists today?). The remote has a netflix button - which is super useful. But according to my router, the TV sends a trickle of data over WIFI constantly. Even when its "off". So I've banned the TV from my WIFI network, and I just have a PC plugged into it. Its less convenient this way - we need to pull out a wireless keyboard & mouse to watch netflix. But I think its the right…

At Least my LG TV shows up in the Offline Devices list on my router when it's turned off.

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Post by Syzygies »

virtue3 wrote: post #304
jiggawatts wrote: post #160

I avoid all things Samsung for a much more important reason: They spy on you mercilessly, up to about the same level as Facebook. For example, they take screenshots of what you watch on your Samsung Televisions! Don't believe me? Take it from them: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-... and https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/insights/ You're not their customer, you're the product.…

worked for a company doing apps for smartTVs. They all do it. Incessently. I made ad games that would pop up when the system recognized a certain ad was playing. you were supposed to be able to opt out of this but LG got busted in the UK for not listening to that option. This was back in 2013 era. It's worse by now I'm sure. They'd straight up send a screencap of whatever was on your screen every second for content r…

I am usually using my Sony smart TV as a computer monitor, connecting a Mac mini to an HDMI port.

A smart TV wouldn't straight-out spy on an external use like this, would it?

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Post by hef19898 »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #508
FrozenSynapse wrote: post #341

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what are the alternatives in the Android space with good camera and good user experience?

A Pixel phone. Honestly Pixel should be the only android you consider as its the only phone that doesn't come loaded with trash spyware (outside of niche phones like Fairphone)

I love Pixels, closets thing to be spyware free. If you ignore being spied upon by Google, that is. Also very easy to get other Android versions on them, and those other OSes offer great, long term compatibility.

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Post by Tarq0n »

jiggawatts wrote: post #160

I avoid all things Samsung for a much more important reason: They spy on you mercilessly, up to about the same level as Facebook. For example, they take screenshots of what you watch on your Samsung Televisions! Don't believe me? Take it from them: https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/resources/tv-... and https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/insights/ You're not their customer, you're the product.…

I avoid all things Samsung for a different reason: I don't want to support the subversion of the South-Korean state. It's become clear over the years [0] that the relationship between SK's administration is deeply unhealthy and anti-democratic. Until the economic power of the corporation is lessened it doesn't seem like the country is able to take effective measures either.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55674712

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Post by crismiquelg »

yea... when thinking about buying this foldable model the rejection was always caused by an intrinsic fear of having to rely on Samsung's customer attention and technical fixing once again... Their terrible service makes u rely on external, non-official technicians every. single. time.

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Post by DoubleGlazing »

I stopped buying Samsung stuff years ago. I have never encountered a brand who products have consistently given me problems like theirs do.

It's not just phones. I've had their TVs (old CRT and flat panels) fail within a year of purchase. A camera with a zoom lens that didn't work out of the box. A microwave which only displayed 99:99 on the display and wouldn't turn on. A washing machine where the hoses to the outflow pump came loose and flooded our kitchen. Luckily I didn't have to deal with Samsung directly and sent all that stuff back to the retailer to sort out, but I did learn a lesson.

As for their phones, they just seem to be a little bit more delicate than other brands. Things like the glass seemingly being easier to break, charging ports getting loose and not allowing for a good connection and physical buttons that just fail.

I know other peoples experiences will be different, but for me I have decided to never again buy Samsung.

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Post by smallerfish »

> I was in need of replacing my aging Pixel 4

Come on, seriously? That phone is at most 2 years old. It's not like the specs of that phone are in any way deficient; I guarantee you there is no app that you needed to run that couldn't run on that phone. Phones are resource intensive to manufacture - we should be aiming to keep them for 1/2 a dozen years or more. This mindset of replace with new and shiny "just because" [you're addicted to spending money] is bad for the planet.

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