Samsung fridge

My in-laws bought a Samsung TV, and I swore them off when I saw ads on the menu. Then I stayed in Hawaii for a while and my rental had a Samsung washer… it had a DOWNLOAD setting on the dial so I could hook up the app… for… washing clothes… it didn’t clean anything, it had a minutes long process of shaking my clothes about to get a feel for them before it bothered adding a lady’s thimble full of water… nope. I had never missed my speed queens so much. Then I was at a big box store and their Samsung fridge with a tablet on the door locked up and hung. That was three personal strikes.

Ours died with a “cannot communicate with board A” error. The wiring harness (yes, an irreplaceable harness) between A and B looked fine. We replaced boards A and B, which were half the price of the machine and not returnable. Same error code. We threw it out and got a Speed Queen. Our Samsung fridge’s manual says it’ll automatically and silently mesh network with any Samsung TVs in range, use AI and hidden cameras to recognize what’s in the fridge and when we use it, then have the TV inject targeted ads into programming based on its findings. We’ll never purchase another Samsung product.

After not having a Samsung device for many years, I reluctantly bought a fridge from them (price was the decisive factor). Anyway, almost immediate regret, it features an always-on wifi network begging to be connected to the web, the only way to turn it off is to disconnect a cable from a circuit board, unbelievable.

At this point I'll never buy another Samsung product. If my computer goes to sleep, the Samsung monitor I have will be distorted and non-functional when the computer wakes up, for a duration of time relative to how long the computer was asleep (i.e. how long the monitor wasn't receiving a signal and was "off"). I've missed meetings at work because I cannot use the monitor for literally half an hour . Of course this started happening just after the 1 year warranty period ran out. My Samsung ~58" TV has black lines forming across it after just ~3 years. The lines are gradually increasing in number and strength, so I guess I'm going to be buying a new TV screen soon. A family member has Samsung oven (???) which has its interior light blinking on and off intermittenly when you open or close the door. The oven's LED screen is like 10% brightness. Their Samsung fridge is the worst-designed fridge I've ever used, making the approximate worst possible use of the space the appliance takes up. The best is their Samsung microwave: when something is done being microwaved and you take out the food and close the door, the microwave runs again for ~1 second. Like... really though? There was a time Samsung made some good stuff, but for me they are not worth giving a moment's consideration anymore, sadly.