I have a PhD in IoT technology uses (mostly medical/clinical monitoring applications). My appliances do not have firmware to update. Don't buy that shit, it's stupid.
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If you think that is bad:
In 2020, Nature Medicine reported the story of Australian woman Rita Leggett, who’d received an experimental brain implant to treat her epilepsy. Implanted as part of a clinical trial, the device worked for Leggett: she stopped having seizures. However, mid-way through the trial, NeuroVista, the company that made the device, folded after investors became nervous about providing financial backing to such invasive technology.
Because the company was no longer operating, there was no means of monitoring the device. It was, quite literally, dead in Leggett’s head (well, not quite – the battery was meant to last three years). Her husband offered to buy the device from NeuroVista but was refused because of its proprietary components. Her only option was to have the device removed or ‘explanted’.
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I can't play Orcs Must Die Unleashed because they turned off support even thought it was a perfectly good single player, AND NOW I CAN'T EVEN HAVE A FRIDGE THAT'S TWO YEARS OLD?!
Why the fuck would a fridge need to be ‘smart’?
Like what’s the reasoning?
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And this is why the only Samsung products I have are RAM and SSDs.
And the SSDs are backed up daily.
Samsung should not have gotten into appliances. They seem to be singularly terrible in that field. No-one else comes even close to their level of incompetence.
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lmao. this happened like two days before one of korea's major holidays.
A boring dystopia.
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