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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…
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?
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
if i want cold water, i just let the tap water run for a bit and drink that. granted, its not ice cold, but do you really need it to be freezingly cold?
Honestly, yes. Frigid water is extremely tasty
look at mr. freeze over there 😎
Something something, ICE TO MEET YOU! something something.
The water in my sink only gets lukewarm at the coldest.
It gets pretty much ice cold where I live. It’s nice
ice cold, delicious water any time of the day
I just turn the tap to cold for that
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.
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⸘”
No, they don’t.
“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.”
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…
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.
These fridges provide ~4c filtered water and some provide ice. A few even provide two different sizes of ice.
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!
Why were you in a random person’s kitchen :P
This comment thread is a clash highlighting the ridiculous lengths we humans go under capitalism to get/normalize completely unnecessary luxury items
I replace the water filters the way I wash my legs: I don’t.
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I DO clean the nozzle - but I removed the water filter. There was a bypass piece.
I bet leaving an old filter in is WAY worse than a bypass, since there’s nothing to get stale/gross.
Damn, people on Lemmy get weird when you have something slightly nice in your house now?
Post it again just to be sure
This reminded me to change my filter last night and stop ignoring the red light that has been on for 3 months lol. Thanks.
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.
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.
Hey Skelly, when’s the last time you cleaned your dishwasher filter? And replaced your HVAC filter?
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.
Cool, must be nice to have a fancy ass rich people fringe that makes water
It doesn’t really make the water. It just has plumbing that routes pre-existing water.
My fridge has a small particle collider, which smashes hydrogen and oxygen atoms together and creates water. Doesn’t everyone’s fridge do this???
No shit
Exactly. Hence the filter.
