• CaptainBlagbird
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    Is this one of those American things, or am I just ignorant?

    I’ve never changed, or heard about changing a water filter in the fridge 🤔😵‍💫 sounds like I’m living a unclean life…

    • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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      567 months ago

      It really is weird. I guess from other comments that this is something about those fancy and expensive fridges that no normal people have with water dispenser on the door and ice sometimes… Maybe?

      • @Retrograde@lemmy.world
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        177 months ago

        At least 50% of American fridges do indeed have ice and filtered water dispensers built in and I think they’re great :) ice cold, delicious water any time of the day? Yes please.

        They’re not even that “fancy/expensive” as it’s fairly standard

        • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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          17 months ago

          Most of North America, the tap water is perfectly drinkable; but it can still be improved with extra filtration.

          These also provide water colder than a tap can.

          To be clear, very much a luxury item, not a necessity in any way. They’ve just become quite common over here.

          The filters are also particulate filters; they won’t do much if your water is actually considered unhealthy due to bacterial contamination/you’re on a boil water notice.

      • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Wait…mnot only do y’all not have garbage disposers; you don’t have refrigerators with built in ice machines and water filters? That’s crazy. You you’re just stuck having to get ice from those little refillable trays?

          • @IamAnonymous@lemmy.world
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            37 months ago

            It’s not. It’s about the quantity. How many trays for ice are you going to keep in the freezer? The machine makes constant ice so multiple people can use the ice and you don’t need to refill the tray everytime and wait.

          • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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            I never fill an ice tray or open the door. I simply put my cup up to the front of the fridge and ice falls into it. Cubed or crushed. Having to use those little ice trays and pop cubes out of it every time you want ice is what sounds stupid.

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      287 months ago

      Does your fridge have plumbing + a water/ice dispenser in the door?

      A regular fridge obviously wouldn’t need cleaning of parts it doesn’t have.

      • CaptainBlagbird
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        77 months ago

        Ooooh that makes sende. No my fidge doesn’t, and I’ve never seen that IRL. It looks useful, when I want ice cubes I need to manually fill an ice tray/bag and put that in the freezer.

        • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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          27 months ago

          I had no idea some countries didn’t have ice machines as a pretty much standard option. It’d be hard to even find a house built in the past 25 years that wasn’t pre-plumbed for a waterline for the fridge. I never really thought about it, before.

    • stankmut
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      57 months ago

      Some fridges have a water/ice dispenser built into the door. Not all American fridges have it and it’s available in other markets too.

    • Rob Bos
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      17 months ago

      Ever watch Red Dwarf? That was Lister and Rimmer’s job.

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      US people have a fetish about ice cold drinks that’s not very common outside of their country.

      Like “the brits drink warm beer (6° instead of -2°), what kind of prehistoric shit is that⸘”

      • Ekky
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        297 months ago

        I don’t usually lick the ice buildup off the back of the fridge, but I’ll keep it in mind if I ever choose to.

        • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          I don’t usually lick the ice buildup off the back of the fridge

          Me neither. That’s a “sometimes treat”, to quote Cookie Monster betraying everything he ever believed in and indeed was.

          • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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            27 months ago

            Now now, most of us can’t just scarf down cookies and then run around like crazy like we could when we were young. Cut old Cookie some slack, his metabolism isn’t what it used to be.

            • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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              37 months ago

              While you have MOST of a point, I’m 99% sure that him having any sort of metabolism isn’t canon, let alone one that’s changed with age 😄

  • @Pieresqi@lemmy.world
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    Water from your … fridge?

    In our country we have faucets. You can get cold water, hot water or mix it with knobs on spout.

    Or you mean the waste water from ice build-up ?? Oh, now it kind of makes sense…

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      North America, particularly 1990-2010, fridges with a water dispenser and ice maker built in were/are pretty common. 3 of the 5 houses I lived in as a kid had one.

      Filtered, colder-than-tap water, and effectively unlimited ice without having to screw around with ice cube trays. Some also provide heated water that’s far cleaner than what comes out of a typical hot water tank, but that feature is rare in my experience.

      They have a filter in the water inlet, and should be cleaned inside/out roughly every 6 months (that part is neglected more often than not).

    • @kevincox@lemmy.ml
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      Having an automatic ice maker in the freezer is pretty awesome. then if you have water running to your fridge you may as well have a chilled water dispenser.

      I don’t really care for fridge water but some people like very cold water and the tap isn’t always that cold.

    • @nexguy@lemmy.world
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      67 months ago

      These fridges provide ~4c filtered water and some provide ice. A few even provide two different sizes of ice.

      • @Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I think I have one of those ice cube trays in my freezer. The last time I used any was probably 3ish months ago or so? I this this about sums up the need I can see in a fridge that has a tap connection to provide ice…

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    347 months ago

    “There’s this light on the front of my fridge. It’s some kind of error thing, it says ‘replace water filter?’ Why should a water filter only last six months. That’s ridiculous. My last refrigerator never did this. I paid a lot of money for this appliance and I feel it’s really unfair that you’re trying to tell me I’m somehow responsible for this. This is unacceptable. When can I expect delivery of my new refrigerator? You have to understand I’m not a technical person, I should not be asked to mess with this myself. I am absolutely not paying for a technician visit for this. This refrigerator is clearly defective and I want a new one. What do you mean consumables are not covered by warranty? What is a consumable? No, that is unacceptable. If you don’t deliver a new refrigerator to me right away I am going to charge back my credit card. I am very disappointed in this purchase and your company’s performance.”

  • @cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    217 months ago

    As if its the most natural thing for a fridge to have a water or ice dispenser .

    Nobody that i know have these and the one that i have seen at a random person, they never used it!

  • @Azzu@lemm.ee
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    137 months ago

    This comment thread is a clash highlighting the ridiculous lengths we humans go under capitalism to get/normalize completely unnecessary luxury items

  • Lemminary
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    127 months ago

    I replace the water filters the way I wash my legs: I don’t.

  • @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    87 months ago

    But… Do you really?

    How much does a fridge filter actually filter? I am perfectly fine with drinking out of the tap, and the fridge is just filtering the tap water…

    To me it just seems like a cash grab.

    • @voracitude@lemmy.world
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      Emphatically, without question, YES the filter needs to be replaced and the lines need to be cleaned out regularly. You should try cleaning out the underside of your taps sometimes, too. Water == life, and not just ours, so things grow in it.

      Augh. Makes me think of the time I discovered nobody had ever cleaned the Keurig at work… I’ll never forget when I wiped down the inside of the water tank and discovered the plastic was clear, not frosted gray like I originally thought 🤢

  • EtherealMoon
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    57 months ago

    Damn, people on Lemmy get weird when you have something slightly nice in your house now?

  • @Veedem@lemmy.world
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    47 months ago

    This reminded me to change my filter last night and stop ignoring the red light that has been on for 3 months lol. Thanks.

  • @twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    47 months ago

    I rented a place that had one of these. It’s just another thing to forget about maintaining.

    A huge percentage of my life I’ve spent working outdoors in remote settings, drinking water from plastic jugs or bags. Maybe that means I’m just wired differently but I don’t really understand the desire to have chilled water in the first place.

  • partial_accumen
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    47 months ago

    We have a whole house water filter so the fridge one is redundant. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that in our fridge when you remove the filter it the water path just goes into a bypass mode. So we are filterless in the fridge (because we filter elsewhere) and don’t need the filter nag from the fridge.

    • @IamAnonymous@lemmy.world
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      17 months ago

      That’s what I do as well. The fridge, water machine and the coffee maker all get filtered water and I have a flow meter to check the filter usage.