…To the manufacturer. The retailer’s not going to take it back, and even if you did manage to bully them into taking it somehow that’s still allowing the retailer to shield the manufacturer (i.e. Samsung) from the consequences of their actions. And consequences are what Samsung needs to see over this.
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cloudless@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I would return it.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place. I like home automation where it makes sense (like having some of my bedroom lights and my coffee maker tied to my phone alarm in the morning) but why would anyone ever tie their fridge to the internet?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
In theory it would be cool to track inventory automatically for restocking, and you could have an app where owner can pay things to the fridge for the rest of the family to see.
In practice nobody would use that app, whiteboards are more fun, and it would never be able to tell what’s in containers of leftovers.
FatVegan@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
I remember back when YouTube just started showing ads. I knew they had ads for a few months, but i have never seen one. One night i was watching something on YouTube with my roommate, and an ad showed up. It was about a barcode scanner. They showed why you need a barcode scanner. They kept showing the uses of the barcode scanner. Put a barcode on your garbage bin, so you can scan it and scan what you threw away, so you know. We never skipped it and the ad just kept going. It was super weird, and it reminds me of a Tim Heidecker sketch, where you wait until they run out of ideas for barcode scanner uses, but they never did. Not for a second have i thought about buying one while watching this 45 min commercial, and i think people are delusional when they think they track their groceries with their smart fridge like that.
Unless they are like turbo autistic, then more power to them.
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The fridge would have to passively scan stuff but it would feel weird spying on groceries like that to me
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Because fucking idiots buy anything with a screen, over anything with a slightly smaller screen.
Greg@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I might put some zigbee door sensors on my fridge so I can get an alert when it’s left open. My 3yo has learned to open the freezer and while it does make a noise, so do a lot of things in my house so I might not notice straight away. Maybe an internal temperature sensor as well? Ok, now you’ve got me thinking, imma turn my fridge into a T1000 but at least it won’t try and sell me anything.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I only like home automation in the sense “light goes on if something moves” because that works offline.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m definitely with you on that. I won’t buy any smart devices that require internet connections these days. And when looking to automate things, I’m much more likely to be buying a dumb device and a smart plug, rather than a smart device. That way I can still manually use the device if and when the automation side fails somewhere along the line.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they also tend to be more prone to breaking than a non-smart appliance.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
if they return it, or trying to scrap it, the customer would have to admit to themselves they bought an overpriced FRIDGE that couldve cost less than a thousand.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
or a smart oven, someone that would buy a smart fridge would buy smart appliances. there was a post on reddit where someone complained about thier smart oven not working because it cant connect to thier internet.