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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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[–] 19 points 5 days ago (23 children)

What convenience? You open the door, a light goes on, it is cold or freezing cold inside depending on the door.

The end.

My parent's McClary fridge from the 1960s still runs on the original refrigerant.

Don't tell me about energy efficiency when

  1. We are awash in renewable electricity

  2. Building new fridges every five years filled with e-waste running garbage software requiring a networking infrastructure on top of it surely used a few joules as well.

  3. It's not in a landfill.

I can't wait for the global energy crash, maybe we'll be calmer and wiser when gas is 100$/liter.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (15 children)

    for one, beeping after you leave the door open for 30 seconds. considering the longevity of a fridge, adding a microcontroller that does that is more environmentally friendly.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (14 children)

    I think you don’t need microcontroller for that?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Microcontrollers are cheaper then analog clocks

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

    A 555 is $0.05

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    A NE555 runs out of sync very fast, so it is not that usable as a clock long term. If you want that you would need further components you don't need for a paduk MCU which is like 3 cents

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (8 children)

    i think you do, for the counting and beeping.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (7 children)

    No I don’t. I can use common door switch and a time relay for that, which triggers buzzer. It cost a lot more than microcontroller, but you can do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (5 children)

    and why'd you do that when you can save money and get a microcontroller instead?

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  • [–] -1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    That wasn’t the point. You said it cannot be done without microcontroller and I told you it can be done.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    beeping after you leave the door open for a few minutes, also electricity is over a quarter a kilowatt hour some places.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Y'all just leaving fridges open all day where you are? In my neck of the woods "Stop staring and pick something, you're letting all the cold out."

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    fridges don't always close properly

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Well

    A) Close it properly then. We have one of those at work, old worn out gaskets, fridge pops open when you close the top freezer, and somehow we can manage to figure out how to close it back up every time.

    B) Replace your gaskets.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    a microcontroller, couple sensors, and a speaker are cheaper

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  • [–] -1 points 5 days ago

    And yet you still need to replace your gaskets when they're failing, because the gaskets are also important to the function of the fridge.

    Now, am I going to spend the $15 to get gaskets for my bosses fridge? No, that's his problem, but I can still "A) keep it closed."

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