Samsung Family Hub fridges will start showing adds to "Elevate" Home Ecosystem

Re:Samsung Family Hub fridges will start showing adds to "El... by noir_lord on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:38AM (#45866798)

I have a Samsung smart TV it's never seen the internet, I just didn't let it connect - it's a display for a box running Fedora, that is its entire job to be dumb and display whatever is sent down the wire.

Devices that do need to be on the internet but I can foresee no reason they ever need to talk to anything else on the network go on their own VLAN (down to the level of my VR headset since it had a Meta logo on the box...).

My boys gaming PC can't even see my desktop (since there isn't a scenario where it needs to).

Other than the "smart" TV I own nothing "Smart" because I don't want anything smart.

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Re:Samsung Family Hub fridges will start showing adds to "El... by mystraline on Sunday November 09, 2025 @01:04PM (#45867589)

I'm not adverse to smart hardware.

I am adverse to being trapped with rental hardware masquerading as as 'sale'. Almost all corporate cloudshit is that.

As a counter example, I have 2 of these opengarage for my garage doors. They work superbly and integrate seamlessly with HomeAssistant.

https://opengarage.io/

And yes, I control them completely. FLOSS and all. And they just work.

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