"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut down after update

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13 points·RachelF··8 comments

This is one instance where I've no sympathy for the consumer. You buy a fridge to keep things cold—not watch videos or have the fridge connect to the internet.

What on earth would possess anyone to buy an AI/screen based fridge in the first place? Screen addiction must be worse than I'd realized.

You say that, but I have been trying to find a non-smart TV for months, Consumers don't always have much choice.

Refrigerators aren't (yet, anyway) one of those appliances where there's no choice.

Agreed. It's difficult to find one these days. My solution is to use a computer monitor and a Set Top Box/PVR. Been doing that for some years now.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829960

And this is why the only Samsung products I have are RAM and SSDs.

And the SSDs are backed up daily.

Samsung should not have gotten into appliances. They seem to be singularly terrible in that field. No-one else comes even close to their level of incompetence.

They've been making refrigerators since 1974, far longer than they've been making RAM and SSDs.

Out of 10 different SSD make and model I have in use around the house, the only one I ever had problems with were Samsung.

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