Samsung is rolling out an update to its refrigerators with displays that will enable them to show advertisements.

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    10 hours ago

    Family calendar is the big one. I also watch YouTube and sports while cooking.

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah at a reasonable price I think a fridge is a decent place to put a display surface. It’s an early point of failure but with some consumer and longevity focused thinking that’s resolvable. I don’t need it enough for the costs but if done well with a focus on the consumer’s needs and wants it could be quite nice. Mind you that condition means fat chance but still, a display telling me what I’m doing today and if I need a jacket would be really convenient in the kitchen. Give it a bus tracker and I think people would really love that.

      Honestly I hate how much of tech these days ignores asking if it’s solving a problem

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      9 hours ago

      I agree. Speding an additional $1000 for that feature is so much better than a piece of paper and a Spongebob Squarepants magnet.

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        8 hours ago

        It is better than a paper calendar, it does AV as well which is fantastic if I’m trying to watch sports and cook, and the feature isn’t 1k. Sucks to suck and have to make up little stories.

        Forced ads is stupid. The feature is fantastic you grumpy lonely old man 🤣.

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      9 hours ago

      If only there was some less ridiculous or wasteful way of keeping a calendar on a fridge, like a white board or something. Its too bad in the history of fridges that there was no way to keep a calendar on it, its just impossible to

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        8 hours ago

        Fuck man, why even have digital calendars at ALL?!!! Let’s just destroy computers, absolutely no need for this shit.

        Ignoring the other useful users, my partner and I forward events from our work schedules when something pops up, the school sends an entire month of events which gets directly imported. The soccer team sends out the same shit.

        God forbid I spend .23% of my yearly salary not having to sync calendar dates and be able to watch sports when cooking.