So absurd and embarrassing ..."

Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

  • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Just wondering, is it confirmed that food actually spoiled? Because making the actual cooling dependent on smart functionality seems incredibly stupid. I assumed it would just be all the smart features that stopped working, but if it couldn’t even cool anymore… woooow XD.

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      I mean I can sorta understand some convenience functions but it oughta have some default setting it falls back to. Especially temperature settings.

      I do have a Samsung fridge but nothing that fancy. I mean I tried to get it to trigger an Alexa routine to play a message when the door opened but that didn’t work. Alexa saying “Close the door fatty, you’re not really hungry” could have been motivational.

      • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        You know, there are plenty of cheap window sensors you could just as well attach to your fridge door to achieve this XD.