I'll rip you a new ozone hole

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

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

Survivorship bias

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.

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".

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Shout out to our 30 year old Miele washing machine

But is it AI?

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

Survivorship bias

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.

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.

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.

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

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