Pretty easy to just not buy this complete garbage.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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I just don’t see the point of having a screen on a fridge or microwave or coffee maker.
If I want a screen for recipes, and that’s a big, big if, I’d have one of those Alexa Show’s or even better just use the dang smart screen in my pocket.
The promise was to integrate your contents of the fridge with some kind of smarts that let you know when your milk was going to expire and to suggest you buy more. The reality is that is dumb because it takes more effort to maintain that digital list than just noting "I need to buy milk". And now it's used for advertising space because it has no other real purpose.
I have a tablet sized easel I use for recipes. Well, I use the tablet, then put it on the easel. Why the hell do I want to walk over to the fridge to look at the recipe when all my stuff is already on the counter??
Why the hell do I want to walk over to the fridge to look at the recipe when all my stuff is already on the counter??
Coming soon:
Smart Counter by Samsung™
Can I flash Linux to my counter and turn it in to a torrent box?
“I dunno it came like that!” 😆
With these devices we are mostly safe for now, unless this is successful and Samsung sees worthwhile profit that justifies the added design and parts costs. This may well be the case and at some point in the future it may be that they find a reason to put a screen on literally everything you own as an excuse to have a vehicle for ad delivery
Hopefully this will be a “name brand products” issue though and cheap no name barebones toasters or whatever will always exist (though with the risk of potential hazardous build quality). What a wonderful future we’ve created.
I will hand-mine books of mica and wrap nichrome wire around them and plug it directly into the wall like my forefathers did before I install a toaster with a screen in my home.
Actually, though probably physically dangerous, a thriving DIY appliance community to bypass the "screen in everything" future might be kinda fun.
You mean you don’t want a $300 toaster with a screen that connects to WiFi so it can show you your own pictures and tell you the weather and I don’t fucking know, schedule toasting? And probably inevitably not work because core functionality is server sided and when they inevitably fail or at least sunset the product bc no one but rich people who flex their cash are buying this dumb shit you’re left with a brick because they turned the servers off
It’s also $100 more expensive at Williams Sonoma if you really want to flex your cash
Alexa is just as bad if not worse.
Until other large manufacturers follow suite, like what happened with TVs.
Right, and it's easy to just laugh at the people sill enough to buy them, today. But make no mistake, if it makes money, all fridges will be sold with ad screens. Just like it's pretty much impossible to buy a large, living room TV that isnt a glorified advertising board. What are we going to do then? Just not buy fridges any more?
Just as planned.
Yet another reason why I do not buy Samsung appliances.
Aside from that, who the fuck needs a screen on their fucking fridge?
GenZ will get horribly depressed without a screen on everything.
Who'da thunk that big evil corp would do big evil things?
Yeah... not ever buying one of those