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Is this the end of water treatment plants?
Water dispensing is the main cause of refrigerator breakage. No water dispenser, fridge will work for decades.
Can’t you just, I dunno, disconnect it from the ater source and stop using it? My LG is not dependent on it, and water filters are not DRM. It is a new models as well.
EDIT: Looking at other comments, might be because of I am European.
Weird, I bought a high end GE fridge 2 years ago and it doesn’t require drm on the water filter.
European?
I know models are often different because eu is much stricter
No, in California. Like just people here, I would have been very pissed off if they put drm on my filter.
My tap already dispenses water, why would I need a fridge to do that?
It dispenses filtered water, useful if you don’t have the possibility to install a water filter faucet and prefer to filter water.
Didn’t realise they made big ones like this, might have to get one. Currently use a small jug in the fridge door
That’s my low cost approach too
That’s gonna be a no for me. Read reviews. Be willing to milk the life of a twenty year old fridge that won’t make ice anymore. I’ll buy an antique before I go down that road.
Luckily I get my water from the tap.
Can’t force you to anything, if you weren’t told about it before you bought it. Demand a refund and give them a date they get it out of your place by.
I thought I fooled the fridge makers. I bought a model without filtered water. Sadly, I didn’t realize that the ice cubes require a filter. 😔
Yup. My old-ass refrigerator has them.
But the thing is, I already had a Brita pitcher and ice trays. I don’t need the fridge to dispense them.
New countertop ice makers are the shit these days. Some of them make that small pebble ice that’s great for smoothies.
Fun fact the black mirror Blu-ray also has DRM
Is it GE? I’ll bet you it’s GE.
Clicks.
Yep, it’s GE.
My fridge is a GE and, like Ford, it’ll be the last time I even consider the brand. Our water filters require a QR tag in a specific location to work so I just held on to the last legit one we bought and taped it to the inside of the canister area. It constantly says the filter is over 99-days old but I can now get two off-brand filters for less than a single GE filter. Fuck I hate capitalism.
Is it even capitalism at this point and not extortion?
Is there really that much of a difference?
Rossmann and his ilk are who we need in Government. It seems so simple. Understands law, fights for the people.
He stands for agreeable things but in no way should he himself be in charge of anything. He kind of sucks.
That’s why I subscribe to ideas not people as much as possible
Our house came with brand new appliances and the fridge has a filter. Thankfully ours doesn’t stop you from dispensing ice or water when it wants you to change the filter. It just has a red light telling you to change it.
“It’s for the safety of the consumer.” is such a bullshit excuse to strongarm people into a subscription model.
Great short story called Unauthorized Bread about this bullshit.
Damn. The fact KitchenAids DNS blocked her results for a workaround is sad and funny.
HP-Newscorp sent chills down my spine. I think the only thing more evil would be adding Nestlé to that.
Excellent story. Thanks for sharing.
Can you imagine how ridiculous that story would have sounded 15, maybe even 10 years ago? Went into it thinking it would be way over the top, read along thinking, yeah, I could see that.
Yeah, its really fucking depressing. BUT, the solapunk/diy/foss/fediverse gives me hope that it can be bypassed or fought against. I find myself holding onto older tech and self hosting more and more. I am sure it makes me insufferable but I don’t worry about my stuff disappearing or costing me more to use once I have it.
