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The can perfectly design these devices to work even when the "smart" part is bricked.
This is just hostile design to steal your data, just keep this shit out of the house.
I had a Samsung fridge-freezer from around 2012, and it developed a fault where it would stop trying to be cold after two days. The engineer diagnosed a faulty motherboard and wanted about 1/3rd the cost of a new fridge to fit a new one, so instead I fixed it with a timer plug that switched it off and on again every day at 3:15am
Why are people still buying Samsung and LG appliances? After my 1st Samsung stove died just over a year, I learned my lesson. Wake up consumers and quit spending money on garbage!!
Samsung should be responsible for reimbursing everyone for the value of their spoiled food.
A thermostat, a compressor and two heat exchangers.
We solved this problem decades ago.
Had a freezer fixed on warranty recently. What needed replacing? An electric heater. Yes the freezer has a heater in it!
(It's for the anti frost feature.)
show this to someone frm the 1950s
One day, transistors will cause this:
A fridge doesn't need AI. Or a firmware.
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If I'd like emojis I'd use the clown emoji now.
I'll do it on your behalf so that it's used, but that you don't have to say you used an emoji.
🤡
Thanks! Handshake Emoji
Oh, and don't go through my history, I think I used an Emoji somewhere.
Lock me up. Try it.
Oh, so you like being locked up? 😏
🔒😫
So y'all need some privacy?
It's a fridge. It doesn't even need an 8 bit microcontroller from the 1970s.
My washing machine keeps asking to be connected to the WiFi. 2 years I've been ignoring it, which has been very convenient. I think it just wants to watch porn.
Sock puppet porn.
That's where they're disappearing to!
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