[speed_spread]

I'm pretty certain that's not an engineer's feature but rather the great idea of a product manager answering to marketing concerns wanting to make the product more "human" or some shit like that. The engineer sighed, implemented the thing, kept his job and moved on.

BTW, my Samsung _played a 30 second song_ (loudly beeping) when it was done. I think it was Schubert or something? And again, no documented way to shut it up permanently. Super fun at 2am to be when woken up by a machine that you bought because it's supposed to be quiet.

[pchangr]

It was possible to disable it on mine with the Smart things app. You can even tell it to send a push notification instead. I absolutely hated the sound but loved the notification as it will remind me and I would just dismiss it when I did it.

[speed_spread]

This feels like it's just nagging you to install the app and hook it up to wifi. I've worked for $big_appliance_company and let me tell you... You don't want to connect your appliances to the Internet.

[pchangr]

Well… what I want to sleep. Worse case scenario is my washing machine ends up DDOS’ing a poor guy’s website

[hedora]

Samsung has started meshing their stuff. Worst case your washing machine forwards on a video feed from your fridge of you in your undies binge eating spray cheese at 2am while watching a Taylor Swift concert.

You’ll be doing this as a direct result of years of careful psychological conditioning via maliciously placed ads chosen by some 4chan group.

[yanellena]

Honestly I'd send it back to the shop. Though it's wise to avoid all Samsung appliances because of the huge failure rate.