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@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending

www.theverge.com

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Samsung’s smart fridges mistakenly warned users its free TV service was ending

www.theverge.com

@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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My smart fridge lied to me
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    I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to watch TV on their fridge.

    • @adam_y@lemmy.world
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      86•1 year ago

      Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

      • Zorque
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        I prefer Stardew Valley

        • @adam_y@lemmy.world
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          2•1 year ago

          How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.

      • @TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works
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        2•1 year ago

        deleted by creator

    • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      Yeah, I just watch TV at the gas pump like everyone else.

      • @4am@lemm.ee
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        2nd button down on the right, press twice to mute

      • @TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works
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        9•1 year ago

        • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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          Where are the ads?

          • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            3•1 year ago

            When you kill an enemy.

    • @lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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      17•1 year ago

      Lots of people have a TV blaring all day in the kitchen. I don’t get that either, but that must be their target.

      • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        Becomes a white noise that’s comforting?

        • @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6•1 year ago

          I get it. I usually have some manner of street food compilation or gaming video in the background if I’m not actively watching something.

        • @Pretzilla@lemmy.world
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          Yep. It distracts from thoughts and loneliness. They start to think of it as a friend.

          • @Confused_Emus@lemmy.world
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            2•1 year ago

            Where’d you dig up this pop psych bullshit?

        • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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          How is noise comforting?

    • @BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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      The reporter’s use case actually makes a lot of sense to me. I would never buy one of these, but I wouldn’t be opposed to using something like this if I ever ended up with one.

      It’s not like I stand in front of it and watch a whole movie in my kitchen. But I like to have the T2 Tennis Channel on while I scramble eggs or pop on a news show while cooking dinner. Plus, it’s nice to have a kitchen screen that doesn’t take up counter space.

      • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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        5•1 year ago

        Or just put some adhesive flat magnets on your tablet.

      • @MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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        I’m sure there’s flat magnets you can put on your tablet.

    • @tal@lemmy.today
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      The aspect ratio of the screen doesn’t seem like it’d be all that ideal.

      • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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        Since it now the norm for everyone to film everything with a smartphone and in the vertical position (I’m old enough that this still hurts my soul), Ive hypothesized that it won’t be long before we start seeing a lot of tvs in this format.

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          Ow! Now my soul is taking splash damage.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to watch TV on their fridge.

      I was sat in the optician’s waiting room the other day, and there was some cheap gameshow on the TV, where people would win like £20.

      I couldn’t believe that people would even film it, let alone broadcast it.

      Watching broadcast TV is the equivalent of going to a restaurant, not wanting to choose and just asking the waiter to pour any old slop down your gob.

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      I wouldn’t want to watch TV, but having a recipe in large text would be really nice.

    • @BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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      Just be glad it doesn’t have an LLM based AI yet.

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