Real

And it will use as much energy as everything else in the house combined.

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)

Moreso, the fridge will stop working in two years cause that is when their subscription cloud service to access your fridge will be updated with firmware that is no longer compatible.

Sure it will work forever, but it also never really worked right in the first place. Those are definitely the fridges where one section freezes and other areas are almost room temp

Survivorship bias

Yeah, but can you survive a hydrogen bomb blast in a 1980s fridge? No, you need a 1950s fridge for that.

Remember in Australia, if you're persistent enough, you could get this replaced under Australian Consumer Law, if something breaks in an unreasonable amount of time (outside of warranty, even). Considering fridges can easily last for 10 years, anything well within that should be fairly easy (but require many, many emails and threatening to taken them to your local small claims) to get replaced.

That is if you can do without a fridge in the meantime 😅

This is not legal advice.

For real, we bought a fridge in November and it is already breaking

Today’s products are built to just barely cross some finish line and not a day longer. It’s bad for you, and bad for the environment.

Samsung fridge had the ice maker stop working 5 times in a span of 2 years. The tray mechanism inside would break so often. I actually started buying replacements from AliExpress and treated it as a consumable product.

Shout out to our 30 year old Miele washing machine

In 2016 my parents bought a new microwave oven and gave their old one to me. That new microwave is broken now and the one I got is still operating the same as it did in the 90s.

You probably forgot to pay the monthly subscription of your refrigerator.

I used to rent this tiny little house from an elderly couple a little over a decade ago. It was their first house when they got married in the late 40s and they'd been renting it out since they moved to a bigger house in the 50s. In all that time the refrigerator has been replaced ONCE in like 1968 and that fridge still worked perfectly when I moved out lol

Don't buy the overly fancy fridges: Buy a basic one from a decent company and it will probably last for years.

My refrigerator fridge machine that fridges and refrigerates is from the early 2000s. Still works like a charm.

It even has a square on it that says "OK".

“…I am also the size of a dorm fridge”

I'll rip you a new ozone hole

But is it AI?

Enshittification, also known as the overall tendency of profit to decline.

Just bought a brand new shitty fridge, can't wait for it to die next year

A fridge is a fridge, the basic mechanical working principle of it didn't change over the past 40 years. But people have a lot more expectations put into what a fridge should be able to do nowadays, and electronics or complex mechanism such as the ice maker is generally the first to break on a modern fridge.

The moral of the story is, don't buy a fridge with an icemaker or have a tablet attached to it, and you should be fine.

Yeah, growing up we had a harvest gold Frigidaire from the 1970s. It didn't leave us, we left it.

(Don't miss the gallons of ice water in the freezer that had to be defrosted every few months.)

I moved into a dated house that came with dated kitchen appliances 70/80s. I've updated the floors under, the water line and gas line to them. Mostly everything around them. I've still kept the appliances. Still work great.

I'll keep my money and the fridge that still does what new fridge does, keeps shit cold. And the stove that does what a new stove dies, make shit hot.

But why? Like what is failing so often in new fridges?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/07/02/why-refrigerator-oven-dishwasher-break/

Its not fully the fault of tech companies, yeah there is some planned obselecence. But there won't be anymore "I will outlive you" appliances cause the more mechanical it gets the more cheaper and easier it is to repair and they also tends to have less individual components.

I don't think any of those new smartish watches even from the best of Swizz makers could last like it did 100years ago.

Survivorship bias

I see your refrigerator and raise you a freestanding oven. The one with coils.

Those things have worser energy efficency and probably contain worser refrigerants

That fridge, in that color occupied a similarly wood paneled kitchen for me growing up. I got a little sweaty when I saw the picture, wondered who’s been in my old house.

“And I will eat your children”

Only available in harvest yellow, burnt sienna, olive, and white. Upgrade yours with some simulated wood grain accents to match your station wagon for a reasonable price. Don't leave it outside in your vacant lot where kids might play inside. Be nice to the Sears appliance department salesperson. They really want a promotion to the vacuum cleaner department so they can buy their kid a high-fidelity 8-track cassette this Christmas.

I'd keep waxing nostalgic but it will never buff to a nice sheen these days. My parents got a toaster as a wedding gift and it was still in daily use when I went off to college. Appliances nowadays are junk.

Have had mine for going on 10 years now