Please stop buying these & they will stop making them.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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There's a pretty simple hack for this, actually…
Can't wait to see this come to the dash boards of modern cars. Oh? You're trying to reverse and make use of your rear-view camera? Watch this 2 minute unskippable ad first.
This is literally already a thing for Jeeps.
If that happens I'm backing over a child out of spite.
Why does a fridge need a screen to begin with?
To justify the constant upcharges. Touchscreens still feel much more luxurious than they're actually worth. Car manufacturers do the same to save money.
Could be I'm the minority here, but touchscreens stopped feeling like a value add years ago. Somehow I've wrapped back around to a good button or knob being the marker of quality. One of the reasons I chose my current vehicle was because they let the most common controls (climate, radio, etc) stay tactile.
You are far from alone. ACTUAL knobs, buttons, dials, switches, and levers are things I'm hearing more and more people saying they miss.
Yeah, I figured that's almost assuredly the case on a forum like Lemmy (or Reddit prior to the Exodus) but I don't know whether it can be extrapolated to the public at large. I'm practically a Luddite compared to many folks around here, but I'm possibly the most advanced computer user among my peers simply because I know a couple Win key shortcuts and I've used powershell before (with no comprehension of what I was doing, to be clear).
It seems like most folks are willing to put up with bad UX, whether due to ignorance or apathy.
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Your first mistake was buying anything Samsung.
How long before the fridge's compressor swells up and explodes
You joke but Samsung fridge compressors ARE notorious for catastrophic mechanical failure.
A fridge on fire is, like, literally the opposite of what a fridge should do >.>;;;
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I bet these smart fridges are banned on flights too. Ridiculous.
At least we'll still be able to take our dumb fridge with us right?
They've taken away so much but at least we still have our flight fridges. As long as they are dumb fridges that is.
I would like to agree, unfortunately Samsung still gives the longest updates on sub 150 euro phones.
But yeah, why does a refrigerator needs a screen in the first place? My white branded fridge must be nearing at least 15 years old, could use new rubber but apart from what still working perfectly.
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Fuck off with the fucking ad for pluribus. What the fuck.
It's a show. Now fuck off.
Everyday I'm cyberpunkin'
i think eventually we're gonna have to deal with the reality that audio/video advertising needs to be outlawed. keep it in print if necessary.
Why does there still need to be advertisements though?
I'd completely ban marketing altogether. Their only purpose is to hack human brains in order to get them to buy stuff they otherwise wouldn't. They are the reason we have overconsumption.
How would you even do that? Marketing is tied up into every single purchasing decision we make. The colors and fonts on the packaging; the perceived value or luxury of the store you're buying it from; the placement of the products within that store; the price of the product itself. All of these signal things about the perceived value of the product and influence what people purchase.
There are some things I want to know about that may or may not be considered advertising. Stuff like a band I like going on tour, or a video game I'm interested in releasing.
Maybe in your world those could just be like opt-in newsletters.
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What's the fuss about it? It is always nice to have another ~~screen~~ doom machine around /s