Samsung won't admit their garbagephones are irrepairable. The repair cost on foldables is ridiculously high. If you want something compact and fancy, buy yourself a flip-phone. There were a few 4G ones, even from samsung :)
Why I will never buy another Samsung device
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#302My Samsung TV is not connected to the internet, but every night about 2am it turns the panel on. Its black, but glowing. I have to turn it off at the wall if I want it to stay off. I'm convinced its trying to shorten its own lifespan.
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#303> I was in need of replacing my aging Pixel 4 > Released 2019, October 22 How is a 2 year old phone aging?
Which phone are you buying that lasts more? After two years the battery life nose dives, flash memory becomes slower, software updates become scarce. And by that time I usually have a broken screen. Good thing I only spend 200€ every two years on the latest trustworthy moto g. Clean google experience, no bloatware, nice gesture actions. A 1k€ phone would have to last 10 years to give comparable value, and I doubt it…
I've had a Samsung S8 for 4.5 years now, and it is still okay.
Yeah it shows that it is old. The battery and performance is worse than before, but it still lasts the day as I am not using it that hard. I have no legitimate _need_ to upgrade as it stands today.
I guess the frequency of upgrades quite heavily on usage, but I find upgrading every 2 years to be very often.
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#304I 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 recognition. Terrible shit.
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#305Its the whole GD tech industry. Its been a race to the bottom on many fronts combined with constantly seeking ways to drive margins higher. Gone are the quality product for a fair price mindset.
PS, I thought everyone knew the foldable devices weren't ready for primetime?
I swore off LG products about 15 years ago, after a similar experience with some of the monitors, but ended up with a LG fridge (which failed) and a TV, and various monitors full of LG parts. These big tech conglomerates are hard to get away from. Its part of the reason I cheer on any competition in some of these spaces, no matter where it comes from.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. They have a utility to test the battery capacity. They check your claim first and someone decides.
I’d imagine someone decides either based on the results of the tests not aligning with expectations (in which case —- cool), or because they’d rather not come out to a customer with a hard ‘no’ on a replacement, and essentially comp it as a courtesy. I wonder if in your case it’s simply been the latter. Retail is hard. Perhaps less hard for Apple, but I wonder to what extent the retail store employees end up paying f…
In a previous life I worked at a Sears. Back when that was a thing.
I was in lawn and garden during springtime. People would come in and buy a fully loaded top of the line lawn tractor. A week later it would be back, covered in mud and grass clippings, clearly having been through hell. Inevitably they were not happy with it. Probably because their pasture was now mowed.
I moved to electronics in the winter. Same story around the Super Bowl but this time big screen TVs.
It was easy to tell. Customers who just went straight to the big ticket item without any questions were obviously not interested in a long term purchase. But we just ate it.
The shitty thing was I got paid commission. Those returns got clawed back in my next paycheck.
I think Apple at least has the decency to pay their retail employees hourly.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone making money off your data does not bother you? I mean you could sell it yourself, why let Samsung do it?
"Selling your data" is marketing nonsense created for disinformation. Companies like Facebook, Google or even Samsung don't sell data. They collect data and get advertisers to pay them to target ads on their behalf. The user data never leaves their system (unless hacked, but that's a different topic). No, it doesn't bother me that they show me ads about products I'm actually interested in based on what they know abou…
They're selling access to the data, your data all the while you have little to no idea.
The issue you raised about getting targtted ads is fine, I don't think many will dissagree with you, but its about having the option to turn it off. Theres the disconnect. When you're forced into an ecosystem that you cant tailor, it leaves a bad taste.
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#308I 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.…
An acquaintance who worked as a security consultant for Samsung can corroborate. They said Samsung's security practices were terrible to say the least.
Are other companies really better, though? I would expect all big companies to be horrible.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
A vendor could display a nag screen at inopportune moments to connect the TV. As far as I know Samsung does this.
we have a samsung tv that is exclusively used with an apple tv and it’s seemed ok this far but i’m not sure how/if i can completely kill it trying to connect as we currently have no nearby open networks but if one pops up it’ll try and connect and i detest that
Setup an open wifi link w/ a separate router, search Amazon for travel router for devices under US$35. This may need to provide a response from an expected domain, just connect the TV and a PC to the open wifi (that isn't connected to the internet) and use Wireshark to see what domains the TV is trying to connect to. Setup the router dns to provide 400 responses to those queries, and problem solved.
Why yes, this is a ludicrous amount of technical work to expect the average consumer to do, and it is fucking disgusting that this is even a concern. I'll continue to use my 8 year old TV, I don't need 4k for something I'm watching from 8 feet away anyway.
I had to DMZ a friend's smart TV, since it was booting excessively slowly waiting for a response from the (Sony) servers, which is why I have a work around. Still, spending $35 and polluting the 2.5ghz band even more seems stupid. The TV in question had an ethernet port, but providing 400 responses on that didn't improve boot times, since it tried to find a wifi signal after that. Just stupid that a TV will be slow to turn in depending on what external servers it can contact.
Edit-stated this was an LG TV, it was a Sony.
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