NBC Bay Area’s Consumer team filed a report focused on faulty fridges, and then, viewers responded resoundingly about their own refrigerator problems. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura has been watching a huge, coast-to-coast response and has an unusual quest to find refrigerator boxes to answer a legal question.

Fridge failures: LG says angry owners can’t sue, company points to cardboard box::NBC Bay Area’s Consumer team filed a report focused on faulty fridges, and then, viewers responded resoundingly about their own refrigerator problems…

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Last night the TV I’ve had for three years stopped working until I agreed to their terms of service, including their personal data sales. There was no opportunity to disagree, nor anything I could do with the TV until I did. You could prove I read it, but it’s ridiculous to claim I agreed to it before buying it or that I had any leverage for fair treatment.

    I suppose I shouldn’t have had my TV on the network but it has an Apple TV app and my Firestick doesn’t

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Vizio. It wouldn’t even let me use the built in airplay or Chromecast until I agreed to sell my soul.

        The only thing that worked was HDMI inputs

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Stories like this are why I will NEVER buy a TV with built-in smart features. Its only job is to take signals and produce pictures and sound. These days, I don’t even need a TV tuner. If I have to pay for a giant monitor instead, that’s fine, I’ll just wait until I can afford it, or buy smaller.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I plan to reset and keep it off the internet by the end of this month.

        The problem was I couldn’t treat it as a dumb TV because of the missing app on my Firestick. It doesn’t help that Firestick has been getting shittier and shittier. And I’m not watching ad infested Prime TV after spending so much money on it

        Im disgusted at the whole mess and ready to give Apple more of my money on the hope that Apple TV is not as ad infested as either the Firestick or the TV. Rumor has it there may be a new Apple TV coming out: crap, now I feel like I have to wait and see what my choices are

        • Cuz :twit:@twit.social
          2·
          10 months ago

          @AA5B yeah the enshittification of streaming TV is well underway. Pretty soon the best option will be to buy a computer monitor

          • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            It’s long been tough to do. I thought that when I bought my tv a few years back, but the smart tv was cheaper and had much better specs than any similar monitor, and there were many more choices

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      Uggh, I hate that crap on my TV.

      I reset my TV recently… Except apparently I didn’t because it came right back with all my settings. Dammit, I said RESET. wtf.

      (Yea, apparently Samsung and others use a feature that once it gets network, it connects to Samsung servers and pulls the config back down if it’s on the same net. Wtf??)