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Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update

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Re: Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

yosame wrote: post #291
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #282

Off-topic-ish: I've got a TCL Smart TV that, by default, runs Google TV (which, to my understanding, is a rebranded newer version of Android TV). The default launcher / interface, which contains ads and has only minimal customisation options, can only be changed by installing an alternative launcher disabling some permissions via adb. Having followed the instructions to do it, it's much nicer having beautiful backgro…

Could you share a guide for how you did this? I've got a TCL TV, and it's constantly frustrating how it shows laggy ads.

I'll have to get back to you. I had to go through the process three or four times to get it to stick across reboots and not leave me with a useless TV just showing a black screen (I had a panic moment when that happened).

You can ask Perplexity, but this doesn't give the adb commands to disable the default launcher (which you need to do so that it doesn't override what the user has chosen upon reboot): https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-do-i-install-project-iv...

I should also mention: This may render some of the TV remote shortcut buttons useless. There's an app that's meant to help with this, but I've found it unreliable.

I'll find my notes tonight...

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Post by winrid »

kstrauser wrote: post #12

This guarantees I'll never buy a Samsung appliance. If they're this willing to screw with their customers today, they'll do it again tomorrow. Sadly, I'm including their TVs in this. I have one today, displaying the output of an Apple TV and not directly connected to the Internet because hah, no way, but I'll be shopping around when it comes time to replace it. Pity. They make nice stuff. Not nice enough that I'm wil…

Their TVs and phones have terrible PWM and are bad for your eyes anyway.

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Post by tosapple »

SoftTalker wrote: post #253
tosapple wrote: post #247

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Mid range samsung phone here, great performance but even with their keyboard disabled on a non-rooted phone it still copies your clipboard on every copy/paste. I will be buying something else next time.

“Copies” meaning sends clipboard contents to Samsung? That’s not cool.

Haven't disassembled it yet so i don't know but when i turned on clipboard notifications i started getting two messages. One for my password manager and a second for the disabled branded keyboard.

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Post by winrid »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #151
FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #116

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My house came with all Samsung appliances and I can't wait for all fo them to die. The dryer already went (8 years old). I've been replacing with mid-range LG on advice of the local repair company and been happy so far. Quirky and very few features but seems well built. Can't wait to replace the massive refrigerator and swap the gas range for inductive. Fridge is slowly going (cracked and leaking ice maker, condensat…

My parents fridge started it's life in the mid 1990's, and their freezer is probably a decade older, at this stage nobody knows. I don't think they were expensive models.

They were likely the equivalent of $3k today. That's part of why these things don't last. Nobody wants to spend $3k on a fridge.

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Post by 201984 »

analog31 wrote: post #201
Fwirt wrote: post #25

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Samsung appliances have among the worst reputations for ease of repair and lifespan. Sadly most other brands are rebrands of Chinese conglomerates or not much better on the quality chain. But honestly it's also a lottery. We bought a fridge on sale for $500 as an emergency stopover when our expensive fridge was delayed by a month during a move, and it's still plugging along out in the garage, a hostile environment fo…

Maybe we need a new boots theory: The rich person buys a $3500 pair of boots that comes with surveillance, useless AI, and bricks itself on the next firmware update. The poor person buys a pair of boots, that are... boots.

Not that dissimilar to Wirecutter's advice on appliances: either buy the cheapest of the cheap because it'll have the fewest parts that can break, or the most expensive since it'll be built with high quality components and hopefully be repairable.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/modern-appliances...

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Post by lostlogin »

Wonder if you could stop this with Pihole?

I had to go to contortions with a tv from Samsung, but did manage to force all port 53 traffic to go via Pihole.

I believe this method may have been broken by Samsung/Google et al somehow though?

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Post by derefr »

fn-mote wrote: post #270
derefr wrote: post #258

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It's hard to make the right boots analogy (try it yourself if you think you can), but to speak of fridges — • The rich person's remodeller (or the developer of the house they buy) buys a commercial-kitchen prep fridge for the house's kitchen. This is a big, powerful, durable, repairable, no-frills, utilitarian fridge, that could be viewed as attractive or ugly depending on your opinion on brutalism. The rich person n…

Parent was funny but almost a non-sequitor. I appreciated the kernel of truth: industrial fridges will not come with adware in the foreseeable future. Buy industrial.

I mean, my point was that there are actually three different ways you can spend a lot of money on a fridge, and it's a lot like with PCs.

You can buy:

• a big ugly powerful repairable/durable industrial one (like a server);

• an average-sized, somewhat-fancy (because high-trim), repairable/durable commercial one (like a workstation);

• or an average-sized fancy "aesthetic" one, made by a design company rather than an appliance company, that isn't repairable or durable (like one of those bespoke "sleeper desk PCs.")

The same goes for most things you can spend a lot of money on. A sound system, a vacuum cleaner, a car, etc. In each of these cases, "premium" has these same three distinct meanings. None of which involve showing you ads. But all of which have their own trade-offs. And all of which are usually quite a bit more expensive (each for their own reasons) than the highest-trim product sold directly to the average consumer by what you'd think of as a "consumer brand."

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Post by mh- »

_cs2017_ wrote: post #273
nappy-doo wrote: post #139

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I beg to differ that Samsung makes good stuff. We had a Samsung front-loading washer. The drum and the crank that holds the drum were made of two different materials, and in the presence of the water and detergent, a galvanic reaction occurred, dissolving the drum arm. Replacing the arm was $400 in parts and over 8 hours in repair time. (There's lots of YT videos of this exact repair.) What kind of monkey designs som…

How long did it take to break? Also, I'm wondering if any other manufacturer would make the crank and the drum from the same material. Wouldn't it be like $100 extra to make a stainless steel spider?

> stainless steel spider

like in Wild Wild West?

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