• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    Remember, friends don’t let friends buy Samsung or LG appliances!

    (Also, long lasting appliances still exist, you just have to be ready to pay the price, otherwise get something from the Maytag family)

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      Honestly I don’t get why Rossman cry so much about “he expected that his $2000> TV would not track him or at least have the option turned off by default.”

      Why shouldn’t they? Why would anyone expect in the first place that by buying a more expensive product they are going to care about your data? Obviously it benefits them to sell everyone’s data, from Rossman’s point of view it sounds like people who buy cheap products deserve to have their data sold because the company is making a loss by selling them the product.

      I usually agree with Rossman’s points, but this one in particular sounds ridiculous to me.

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        Yeah he’s really upset about LG, but it seems like everything tracks you these days. Seems a bit shortsighted to just shit on LG and no one else.

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        There’s some appliance breakdown vids (idk if Rossman is one of them) but the gist is Samsung and LG like to put cheap plastic parts in high wear locations which inevitably fail.

        Fridges are dead simple appliances. A compressor and evaporator coils with a temperature sensor. There’s absolutely no reason they shouldn’t outlast you and everyone you love.

        It’s insane these “premium” brands are built to fall like they do.

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            I mean, having to replace a fridge every few years because it constantly breaks in a way that’s uneconomical to repair will cost you a lot more in the long run.

            That’s the thing, it’s more expensive being poor.

            You’d be better off getting a 2nd hand quality brand from a wealthy suburb when they remodel their kitchen every 5ish years or so.

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            An insulated box with a decent compressor does not cost 10k. Making a compressor that fails after 2 years is actually hard to do, something both LG and Samsung spent time and money to achieve.

            Consider, for example, that nearly every car manufactured with an AC. Which is exactly the same tech as a fridge. Yet you rarely end up needing to replace the compressor on your car. You might need to recharge it or clean it, but not replace the compressor. 10k of your car price isn’t the HVAC.

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      I like our used Samsung dryer. For basic drying. It has all those other bells and whistles that I don’t care about, but it’s done well for years. That damn finished drying tune though…with the option to turn it off or…not turn it off. omg

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      I wish I had friends. It would’ve prevented me from buying the shitty dishwasher that last less than 3 years.