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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges (arstechnica.com)
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Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

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[–] 148 points 1 week ago (5 children)

.......a smart fridge should be smart enough to still act like a fridge when its confused

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  • [–] 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    we need to start tearing out the garbage. smart appliances aren't smart, they're extractive enshittification.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I mean, don't put it on the network. Now it is dumb again. Mostly. Probably not, ok fine, so just don't buy one with that shit in it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago

    my friend lives in rural vermont without internet access (he can get cell phone access at the base of the hill he lives on, but not much else) - and his samsung tv keeps telling him to agree to the terms and services, and the only way to do so is for it to be online. 2-3 times a day an overlay appears and prompts him to sign in to his samsung account and agree lol. he's so frustrated he wants to return the tv.

    even without the network being present, enshittification is all around us

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Yeah this is a matter of making it fail safe. A refrigerator that isn't operating at food preservation temperatures (and freezing temperatures in the freezer) is dangerous.

    Appliances related to safety such as refrigerators and temperature control need to have a safe position they can fail to when their logic is confused.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    It is fun for me... I am a crazy fool developper and most real software professionals tell me I am dumb to think that a mistake should lead to something else than an error that kills the program (and wait for user's restart).

    So, yes, I agree with you, out it won't happen as long as makers trust deprivating software makers (those who make softwares no one else may modify).

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