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Comment by leblancfg

1 month ago

My Samsung computer monitor is also the stuff of nightmares. Same story: useless "smart" UI features. I'm told I can use it as a dozen different things. But it sucks as a computer monitor.

Not cheap either!

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pfych  1 month ago

My Samsung 4k 240hz OLED monitor has an absolutely gorgeous panel but if I knew I'd need to connect it to the internet and run a PYTHON script to disable some of its "features"[1] I probably would have gotten a similar LG display instead.

[^1]: https://pfy.ch/programming/disable-samsung-game-bar.html

  • deltaburnt  1 month ago

    Thank you for sharing this holy crap. I have this exact monitor and that popup drives me absolutely insane.

    • pfych  1 month ago

      I'm always happy to hear this from people. I get maybe an email a month specifically about this post haha

kstrauser  1 month ago

That makes me sad. Many, many years ago I had a 17" Samsung CRT. It broke within the warranty period. I called their support and explained the problem. They asked for my receipt. I didn't have one, but I told them that the sticker on the back said it had only been manufactured 9 months ago, so it had to still be under warranty. Their support person agreed. They checked their inventory and found that they were out of stock on that model, and asked if I'd be OK with them upgrading me to a 19" CRT. Sure!

I was fiercely loyal to them for a lot of years after that experience.

LogicHound  1 month ago

I got their monitors from the "before" they bunged smart into everything. 2 x 4K from 2016/2017. These things refuse to die and the picture is still good.

Unfortunately all of my relatives love their phones.

  • SoftTalker  1 month ago

    I had a Samsung phone a few years ago. It had the usual un-removable crap that Android phones have, but it wasn’t bad otherwise.

    • tosapple  1 month ago

      Mid range samsung phone here, great performance but even with their keyboard disabled on a non-rooted phone it still copies your clipboard on every copy/paste. I will be buying something else next time.

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