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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 potato3732842 »

xethos wrote: post #183
pixl97 wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends if it's luxury or commercial. Commercial products are generally able to be fixed, but there is a quite a price premium on them.

Commercial and consumer dishwashers are only the same in that they're both called "dishwashers" and use water. The former expect little to no food, have cycles measured in minutes, and run at temperatures that would eat more sensitive dishes alive.

You were close.

A commercial dishwasher will cut right through amounts of food that a normal residential dishwasher wouldn't touch (pre-wash is more for efficiency and to keep crap from piling up in the bottom tray of the dishwasher) and it will actually be ever so slightly less harsh on whatever goes in it (plastics are the problem mostly) because while it washes and rinses way hotter it doesn't have a stupid heating element that runs to dry things.

It will also use fucktons more water and more power and make more noise.

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Post by sotix »

prawn wrote: post #181

Can't stand behaviour like this. I pay for Spotify and the app now shows paid suggestions ( cough ads), to paying users. When you tap the ellipsis and choose "Not interested", it doesn't respond with "OK, we'll stop" but something like 'We'll show less of this'. No, don't show less, I want you to not show it at all.

NFL RedZone, the ad-free premium tv channel now shows ads for sports betting

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Post by VladVladikoff »

messe wrote: post #48
Forgeties79 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Futurama right? When fry buys that underwear?

More than technically correct—the best kind of correct—you are plain correct. (I've used em-dashes since before LLMs and I'm not fucking stopping now) EDIT: s,',,

Sounds like something an LLM would say.

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Post by II2II »

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.

It's probably more like a rich person will spend $50 on a pair of boots that will last 10 years, while a poor person will spend $10 on a pair of boots that will last a year. The upper middle class person will spend the $40 on a pair of boots that comes with surveillance and useless AI, while a middle class person will spend $30 for the same, except it bricks itself on the next firmware update.

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Post by grugagag »

j1elo wrote: post #256
Fwirt wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I got another way of looking at it: it's not worth it having appliances that last 20 years, because in that time the tech itself can and does improve a lot. Ready example is my aunt: a very good and expensive Miele washing machine, that was made to last as things were before. But now 10 years have elapsed and modern washers come with bigger drums, much lower noises, optimized water and electricity usages, and more ef…

She’s not stuck with her appliance unless she has FOMO anxiety, she paid for her appliance once and if it’s still working then all is good. Marginal improvements don’t justify buying the same thing over and over.

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Post by gblargg »

embedding-shape wrote: post #208
nerdsniper wrote: post #120

There's a $30,000 bounty set up for anyone who can patch the firmware to eliminate the ads. Please consider contributing additional donations against the matching funds. https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/samsung-familyhub-refrige...

> Include instructions for carrying out the functional method which are accessible and easily usable by a non-technical individual Good luck for anyone to claim this bounty if that's one of the requirements. Does the fridge have any exposed ports at all that the average person could access without removing anything from the fridge? It's also not clear in the bounty, if I add funds to the campaign and it gets fully fu…

What's the use if a non-technical individual can't apply the fix?
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