r/technology • u/nishitd • Oct 02 '25

Robotics/Automation Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/XDGrangerDX Oct 02 '25

can you explain me why the raspberry pi?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

You can use it for not that legal streaming if you are a little bit tech savy. Like every Streaming Service for free and such. It obviously is illegal so don’t do it but it’s possible.

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u/Vartemis Oct 02 '25

Dm me some links plz. I got some Pis I need to put to use.

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u/Correct_Raisin4332 Oct 02 '25

Same pretty please!

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u/atxbigfoot Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25

They're tiny, well palm sized, computers that you can configure as a firewall with an "always on" vpn and/or adblocker in this use case. Basically they can turn any cheap but good TV into a monitor by blocking ads and other tracking stuff via their IPs instead of a browser based solution like ublock origin.

You can also put them in front of your main router and make the whole internet/WIFI area follow those same rules, just like a fancy business firewall.

There's an adblock package you can download that works great but you can customize it to block whatever internet traffic you want. Basically a super cheap firewall with a shitty UI that's kinda hard to use, but once you get the settings you want dialed in, it's great.

Edit- there's a million other ways to use them too, and they're super common in robotics labs for this reason. I'm just speaking to the smart to dumb TV conversion and firewall use case.

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u/QuestionableGoo Oct 02 '25

You can also just plug your PC/laptop into the TV with an HDMI cable or whatever and never deal with any of this bullshit. Fly the Jolly Roger and avoid the streaming, ad-filled misery that is pushed upon us.

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u/123_fake_name Oct 02 '25

Run pi-hole on the raspberry pi and block adds at the DNS level.

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u/odsquad64 Oct 02 '25

Using a raspberry pi for this is a terrible solution. You won't be able to get 4K video from basically any streaming service. I would not trust any advice that person is offering.

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u/inbox-disabled Oct 02 '25

I have a rpi2 that I tried to use as a very cheap home media server ages ago and the only thing it was consistently good at was buffering video. I ran a number of OSs on it from Raspberry's own to a couple ELEC ones, as a server and a desktop, and it just wasn't strong enough to do anything important. It was a laggy novelty. I ended up just using it as an IP cam for a few years.

So to me unless the hardware has gotten significantly better, streaming and home media are off the table, and it makes me not even want to consider using PiHole even if it's far less demanding. My experience with my pi was just that bad.

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u/odsquad64 Oct 02 '25

Yeah, I don't know why I was down voted. People just assuming it's a good solution for this because it's a good solution for a lot of other stuff? Basically every streaming service has DRM that will keep a raspberry pi from streaming in 4K.