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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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> Being frugal, thinking about what you need and similar ways of thinking is not common in the real world, it's a small selection of any population that acts and reasons like that. It often is. Often out of necessity. You are making the mistake a lot software developers and other professionals often make. Is that they think rationally and others do not. This is because in one area they are forced to think about thing…

> The way you are talking is like the way I used to talk when I was younger and had less real world experience. It's incredible interesting, if anything else, that I feel the same about you and could have written exactly the same thing as you seem to lack real-world experience, and probably are a bit younger than me, judging by what you wrote. But instead, probably better to stop here and acknowledge we won't get to…

> It's incredible interesting,

You don't think that.

> if anything else, that I feel the same about you and could have written exactly the same thing as you seem to lack real-world experience, and probably are a bit younger than me, judging by what you wrote.

IME, those who start claiming the other person lacks real world experience as an argument (like you did), is normally making up for the fact that they don't.

> But instead, probably better to stop here and acknowledge we won't get to anything interesting after all, so thank you for your time, and maybe see you around :)

We can't get to anything interesting because you ignore what you don't want to engage with. There were a huge number of presumptions you make without even realising it in your statements.

I also want to know why you think that developers are more rational? You never gave a rationale other than what boils down to "I think other people are dumb, and developers are smart". That was your entire argument.

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

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Millions of people sit through minutes of the worst ads I've ever seen to watch mr beast exploit homeless people. We're boned.

How does anyone watch youtube these days? I wouldn't mind seeing an ad or even 2, but it feels like youtube is singling me out for special treatment. I'm not going to watch anything if i'm scared a 30 second ad will interrupt the video.

Pay for it, no YT ads in many, many years for me

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

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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 heatin…

Haven't worked in a commercial kitchen, and I've been wrong before (in this chain, no less), but how would the water be hotter without a heating element? Consumer dishwashers are plumbed into the hot water, so it can't be a difference in a direct hook-up. Without it's own heating element, I wouldn't assume it has its own built-in and ready-on-demand hot water tank, either. My last guess is more frequent cycles, meani…

for commercial there are 2 options chemical and temp sanitization. From fda food code has to reach 171F to sanitize. most use a inline OnDemand heater with a couple taps so constant temp is close to 170 but will also pipe off steam to do a final sanitize. restaurants will also hand wash their plastics in a 3 sink setup water only needs to be 110F

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

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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...

accurate HN username

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

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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.

My point was more along the lines of the fact that below a certain price point, you can't be sure whether you're paying $3500 for actual build quality and features or marketing. A $500 fridge could last forever, or it could last exactly as long as the (very short) warranty period. Also, cheap stuff may last forever in some ways, but it's been cost optimized in a million different ways that make it more annoying to use. In my case the compressor is fine, but the plastic interior has some inexplicable cracks in it and the feet broke off. But at least it will never advertise to me.

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

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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.

Buying industrial works in many circumstances:

- consumer kitchen mops break in 1-2 years. Get the commercial one for 2x and it lasts

- my bike is locked to an 25mm thick toughened steel industrial eye-bolt (set into concrete) which cost < $10. A consumer item intended for that purpose costs ~$70

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

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My Samsung 4k 240hz OLED monitor has an absolutely gorgeous panel but if I knew I'd need to connect it to the internet and run a PYTHON script to disable some of its "features"[1] I probably would have gotten a similar LG display instead. [^1]: https://pfy.ch/programming/disable-samsung-game-bar.html

Thank you for sharing this holy crap. I have this exact monitor and that popup drives me absolutely insane.

I'm always happy to hear this from people. I get maybe an email a month specifically about this post haha

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

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Horribly bad, and also bad precedent, but:

"The ads experience, though, seems to have improved somewhat from the earlier pilot testing in that users can use their fridge’s settings menu to opt out of seeing ads. If users set their Cover Screen to show integrated Art or Album themes, then the display won’t show ads."

So at least for now tech savvy, aware users can opt out. But I don't like where this is going.

Maybe we can tape cardboard over the screens?

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

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Samsung makes bad fridges. I bought a Sub-Zero. It has 2 compressors (1 for fridge and 1 for freezer), is made of high quality parts so will last 20+ years, has excellent service guarantees, and is made in America. Highly recommended.

> It has 2 compressors (1 for fridge and 1 for freezer) Is this a feature? It seems like making more parts to break. Surely there's a better way to get independent cooling control. E.g. one compressor with valves to control which side(s) the coolant flows to?

Different humidities and it makes a big difference. Also less stress on each component and they have very long warranty’s so if they break it’s on them.
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