Don’t buy Samsung anything. Their hardware is junk. They used to be okay, but they decided years ago that they want to be an advertising company, not a hardware company, so they push cheap crap that is used solely as data harvesting and ad delivery devices. Even their home appliances spy on you and break down a few years later.
I’ve found Samsung to be uniquely terrible across every type of anything I’ve ever owned that they’ve made.
I bought my current condo thinking the almost new (I think they were 2 years old at the time) Samsung appliances must not be that bad, but every single one of them has a unique design flaw that has caused it to fail or be damaged in small ways or large:
Samsung range - coated with black stainless coating that peels off upon heat stress…cuz you’ll definitely never encounter heat stress when working with a gas range 🙄, the clock’s LED is also intermittently failing.
Samsung refrigerator - has a separate ice maker compartment that was not sealed properly at the factory, and therefore freezes over itself…which makes the ice maker useless
Samsung dishwasher - Had a wet sensor on the bottom of the dishwasher that tripped, and then it just ran forever with a large grinding noise…I had to cut the power to the circuit to get it to stop doing whatever it was doing
Samsung microwave - Large, heavy, stainless steel handle attached to cheap, easy to fracture plastic through a single screw hole at the top. The handle eventually snapped off of the top of the microwave…I’ve also heard (but not experienced because I never use it) that the sensor cook is garbage.
Add all of the above to what I consider to be samsung’s already piss-poor reputation for products in my experience (I had a samsung flip phone that the screen just completely stopped working after a year of use in the early 2000s, and a Samsung MP3 player with a battery hinge that was so poorly designed it eventually stopped working because the battery kept popping out).
I fucking hate that company and wouldn’t be surprised in the least if their terrible, flawed products are also privacy nightmares.
While they definitely have many products in the cheap junk category, but I think they have pretty good hardware in the mid-upper range.
Software is the real junk in Samsung products; their high-end TVs would be great if it wasn’t for the crappy software and updates.
I dont have that experience with my samsung phone.
But i appreciate that you may be exaggerating when you say “samsung anything.”
This galaxy fold 3 might be the best phone I’ve ever used, and im not being advertised at all really. The hardware is/was at launch some of the best you could get and it would be disingenuous to say that samsung are the only company out there harvesting user data. Thats all tech companies really.
Same here. I have the flip 4 z and it’s been great! And before this I had the galaxy note 20 and the galaxy note 4. Both fantastic phones. I do miss having the stylis but I didn’t want to get a fold.
Sadly, if you are using Linux and want your firmware updates for your SSD through the proper native channels, Samsung was the only option last time I checked. Crucial used to have a half-assed solution that they abandoned recently.
Huh, I’ve never actually updated any firmware for SSD or any other drives. I’ve updated my BIOS, but only rarely. Are there any significant advantages for updating HDD firmware? I guess I wasn’t even really aware that was something that you could do.
I got a Kingston SSD once ( yes I should have known better) that kept freezing my laptop which needed to be restarted. I couldn’t narrow it down and put up with it for an embarrassingly long time, until while looking for unrelated stuff I found out that the firmware version was associated with freezes. And then I found out that it was basically impossible to upgrade it, even on windows. After many hours, I was almost ready to give up, until I found some random Russian video (which I don’t speak) that used some ancient version of their shity firmware updater that you could only find in sketchy forums and software sites that could actually upgrade the firmware to a non-crashy version. I think it still freezes, but it’s orders of magnitude rarer.
That sounds like the good old days of computing. I followed so much sketchy advice that I barely understood when I was still learning computing and it somehow almost always worked out. There was that one time when a program started deleting my entire hard drive though, and I had to yank the plug out of the wall to stop it. The internet truly was the wild wild West for a time. Good times!
Yeah the bloatware doesn’t interfere with anything I do. I use some apps like I’m trash so I use a dating app, and I use a podcast app to listen to a show and a banking app.
The bloatware is just kind of in the background and I never fully install it when I get a new phone so it just stays in limbo.
Thats the way to do it if you can. Privicy is a human right that in its purest most extreme form, upheld with paranoya levels of prep. but most will find an amount where their happy.
Don’t buy Samsung anything. Their hardware is junk. They used to be okay, but they decided years ago that they want to be an advertising company, not a hardware company, so they push cheap crap that is used solely as data harvesting and ad delivery devices. Even their home appliances spy on you and break down a few years later.
I’ve found Samsung to be uniquely terrible across every type of anything I’ve ever owned that they’ve made.
I bought my current condo thinking the almost new (I think they were 2 years old at the time) Samsung appliances must not be that bad, but every single one of them has a unique design flaw that has caused it to fail or be damaged in small ways or large:
Samsung range - coated with black stainless coating that peels off upon heat stress…cuz you’ll definitely never encounter heat stress when working with a gas range 🙄, the clock’s LED is also intermittently failing.
Samsung refrigerator - has a separate ice maker compartment that was not sealed properly at the factory, and therefore freezes over itself…which makes the ice maker useless
Samsung dishwasher - Had a wet sensor on the bottom of the dishwasher that tripped, and then it just ran forever with a large grinding noise…I had to cut the power to the circuit to get it to stop doing whatever it was doing
Samsung microwave - Large, heavy, stainless steel handle attached to cheap, easy to fracture plastic through a single screw hole at the top. The handle eventually snapped off of the top of the microwave…I’ve also heard (but not experienced because I never use it) that the sensor cook is garbage.
Add all of the above to what I consider to be samsung’s already piss-poor reputation for products in my experience (I had a samsung flip phone that the screen just completely stopped working after a year of use in the early 2000s, and a Samsung MP3 player with a battery hinge that was so poorly designed it eventually stopped working because the battery kept popping out).
I fucking hate that company and wouldn’t be surprised in the least if their terrible, flawed products are also privacy nightmares.
While they definitely have many products in the cheap junk category, but I think they have pretty good hardware in the mid-upper range.
Software is the real junk in Samsung products; their high-end TVs would be great if it wasn’t for the crappy software and updates.
I dont have that experience with my samsung phone.
But i appreciate that you may be exaggerating when you say “samsung anything.”
This galaxy fold 3 might be the best phone I’ve ever used, and im not being advertised at all really. The hardware is/was at launch some of the best you could get and it would be disingenuous to say that samsung are the only company out there harvesting user data. Thats all tech companies really.
Same here. I have the flip 4 z and it’s been great! And before this I had the galaxy note 20 and the galaxy note 4. Both fantastic phones. I do miss having the stylis but I didn’t want to get a fold.
I absolutely adore my old S5, and sad to see ot retired. its battery is literally cracked in places but the OS is excelant.
I still have my galaxy note 4 from ages ago and I want to turn it on again some day and get it to work again.
Sadly, if you are using Linux and want your firmware updates for your SSD through the proper native channels, Samsung was the only option last time I checked. Crucial used to have a half-assed solution that they abandoned recently.
Huh, I’ve never actually updated any firmware for SSD or any other drives. I’ve updated my BIOS, but only rarely. Are there any significant advantages for updating HDD firmware? I guess I wasn’t even really aware that was something that you could do.
I got a Kingston SSD once ( yes I should have known better) that kept freezing my laptop which needed to be restarted. I couldn’t narrow it down and put up with it for an embarrassingly long time, until while looking for unrelated stuff I found out that the firmware version was associated with freezes. And then I found out that it was basically impossible to upgrade it, even on windows. After many hours, I was almost ready to give up, until I found some random Russian video (which I don’t speak) that used some ancient version of their shity firmware updater that you could only find in sketchy forums and software sites that could actually upgrade the firmware to a non-crashy version. I think it still freezes, but it’s orders of magnitude rarer.
Long story short, Kingston, not even once.
That sounds like the good old days of computing. I followed so much sketchy advice that I barely understood when I was still learning computing and it somehow almost always worked out. There was that one time when a program started deleting my entire hard drive though, and I had to yank the plug out of the wall to stop it. The internet truly was the wild wild West for a time. Good times!
In Soviet Russia, SSD freeze you!
Kingston! Once king and now just shite.
What is it with all brands of everything that once a brand turns great, it gets popular, and then immediately it turns shit?
They talked about this on a recent 2.5 Admins episode
I have a samsung phone and its great…
You don’t mind the bloatware software? Or the artificial limitations out on your phone? At least it’s not an iPhone
Yeah the bloatware doesn’t interfere with anything I do. I use some apps like I’m trash so I use a dating app, and I use a podcast app to listen to a show and a banking app.
The bloatware is just kind of in the background and I never fully install it when I get a new phone so it just stays in limbo.
Thats the way to do it if you can. Privicy is a human right that in its purest most extreme form, upheld with paranoya levels of prep. but most will find an amount where their happy.
I thought Samsung phones were okay.
Except when they explode