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Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending (www.theverge.com)
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[–] hal_5700X 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Dumb fridges forever. Just keep the food cold.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, they're kinda hard to find. We recently got a new fridge, and most of the French door fridges (fridge on top, freezer on bottom) were smart or didn't have a water dispenser.

We ended up with a Whirlpool without smart features, other than the "smart" water dispenser (touch screen to auto-fill cup to X liters), and it still has "dumb" buttons for that as well. I haven't taken it apart, but hopefully the dumb buttons act as a fallback when the smart buttons inevitably fail.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was sleeping for fridge about a year ago, i didn't find a single "smart" at all. Max tech was door ice and managed 🌡️ with digital dials

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 8 months ago

Really? I'm in the US and went to Home Depot, Lowes, Costco, and Best Buy. Our requirements:

  • ice dispenser in the freezer section - ice dispenser's in the fridge have a high failure rate
  • external water dispenser
  • preference for french door fridge (freezer below fridge)
  • strong preference for no smart stuff
  • not LG or Samsung; strong preference for Maytag or Whirlpool

So, here's what we found:

  • about half of the french door refrigerators had "smart" stuff
  • about half of the remainder of french door fridges had a water dispenser in the door, the rest either had none or it was inside the fridge
  • only one french door refrigerator had an ice machine in the freezer, the rest either had none or it was in the fridge; water dispenser was inside the fridge

So we bought a side-by-side fridge from Whirlpool, which met all of our requirements except the french door design.