OT: Bullshitting at the Barbershop

[forty_three]

The app will let you know some diagnostics if issues exist and give monthly status and usage reports.

I do like that. My "average" usage time and temp on my oven is pretty much the time and temp I use to make pizza.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Our 20 year old washing machine has gone up. I'm actually kinda glad because it was an early front load and doesn't really fit in the laundry room. When the door opens, it grazes the far wall of the room. I am looking to replace it with a top load impeller style machine.

Anyone have any experience with either LG or Samsung appliances? I have used other Samsung and LG electronics and liked them, but my appliance experience is limited to an LG range that I haven't had for a year yet. Seems fine, but annoying that I can't set the clock without a mobile app.

Can't really offer much other than to sympathize as I just had to replace my 17 year old set a week ago.

It's a Samsung front load stackable set. Seems fine, but I've done one load of laundry so far. While shopping we had a friend tell us their LG set was nothing but trouble, but thats anecdotal and no doubt a YMMV thing, but it was enough to have us looking in the Samsung direction.

FWIW, Lowe's was able to deliver in less than 48 hours, though I know they have a large DC in the Charlotte area.

 

[forty_three]

While shopping we had a friend tell us their LG set was nothing but trouble, but thats anecdotal and no doubt a YMMV thing, but it was enough to have us looking in the Samsung direction.

We have a friend who bought an LG fridge and it's been a 2 year nightmare for them to get it fixed. But they bought the whole suite and only the fridge was messed up so...Feels like more of a bad one got out than a "speaks to overall quality" thing. No one i know with any Samsung stuff has any complaints. I bought a Samsung DVD Player and 720p DLP TV over 20 years ago and both still work absolutely stellar today. And I love my LG Phone and monster TV that replaced the Samsung a few years back.

The thing that I like about the LG washer is they did away with the belts and pullies and do a direct drive of the drum from the motor. I replaced 2 belts on the one going away.

 

[puckhead]

we had a pretty red Samsung side by side washer/dryer set in our last house, no problems whatsoever.
front load, but the brand was good.

our current house has cheaper machines (don't know what brand they are offhand), and they don't dry consistently.

 

[mattola]

we had a pretty red Samsung side by side washer/dryer set in our last house, no problems whatsoever.
front load, but the brand was good.

our current house has cheaper machines (don't know what brand they are offhand), and they don't dry consistently.

If it's not drying consistently then it's probably the heating coil which is fairly inexpensive to fix.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

We've had Samsung side by side washer and dryer for the past 5 years. Never a problem. Only issue was almost amputating all my fingers getting them placed on the pedestal/bottom drawers

 

[sbb122]

/never mind, it’s a cloud FFS

 

[jstewismybastardson]

/never mind, it’s a cloud FFS

 

[sbb122]

Best thing I have read this month

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

This

If it's not drying consistently then it's probably the heating coil which is fairly inexpensive to fix.

This is what led to us starting the replacement process.

Service tech gave us two options (besides replacement), neither of which was the cool itself unfortunately.

Repair would have cost 80% of a whole new unit

(even the repair guy said repairing would be stupid)

 

[mattola]

This

This is what led to us starting the replacement process.

Service tech gave us two options (besides replacement), neither of which was the cool itself unfortunately.

Repair would have cost 80% of a whole new unit

(even the repair guy said repairing would be stupid)

That was my washing machine . The drum went and the cost would have been $50 less than a new one

 

[forty_three]

Things in England are far worse than previously thought

 

[dare2be]

Things in England are far worse than previously thought

Well, Brexit happened, so...

'Murica, morans!

 

[buffhockey]

 

[puckhead]

 

[thedddd]

Jeep is going all in on electric SUVs starting with the Wrangler-esque Recon

Jeep wants to be the top seller of electric SUVs in the world.

www.theverge.com

Yes I would be interested in a Recon.

 

[sbb122]

 

[Comeds]

Some of the new fall shows sound interesting:

Yosemite
Everglades
Sons Of Yosemite
Badlands
Chuck Too!
Carlsbad
Daughters Of The Badlands
Hot Hot Cuyahoga Nights
Rob! aka The Rob Schneider Show
Grandmothers Of The Daughters Of The Badlands

 

[forty_three]

Update: Bought a Samsung for one simple and incontrovertible feature it had above the LG. It was in stock.

 

[sbb122]

Twitter is running rampant that the BBC announcers have switched to black ties signifying the queen is dead.


On a side note I will never understand the American obsession with the royal family.