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disabled wifi on the new samsung fridge (just unplugged this guy, lucky guess). can’t figure out the stove cuz there’s no access panel that i can see on the back of the stove. i fucking hate living in the future

since this got boosted if anyone happens to know about service manuals for appliances, lmk. i’m textin a buddy about this and now we just wanna kill it instead my backup plan (forever dhcp lease + block IP from pf.conf). even the manuals i can find online from samsung don’t mention the smart features, it seems to be more of a “don’t burn down your house idiot” thing

@swaggboi why does it even have an internet connection??

Aren’t there still fridges and stoves without that dumbness?

@Byte i can’t fathom why

these appliances came with the new place so i’ll be stuck with these i imagine for some time; as an added bonus i think there’s still covid related shortages too.

also we have a dishwasher that is samsung but no wifi. why fridge and stove can slide in the DMs but not dishwasher??

@swaggboi very cool lucky hack!

wished i had this luck with my black box solar panel inverter.

@swaggboi damn smart tech over complicating everything that should've been kept simple in the first place. And there's no way to avoid smart fridges, stoves, tv's, toasters, shoe laces etc?

@Shredd_Tone @swaggboi

Did ya hear the one about the sneakers that got bricked by a firmware update? True story...

@float13 @swaggboi Wait! Smart sneakers are a thing? I was making that up, cause I thought it was Ridiculous

@swaggboi I really want a "dumb" appliance store. My fridge should keep things cold, my toaster warm things up, my printer put ink on thin slices of dead tree, and my TV show whatever video stream I send it. None of these need to reach out over the network. Please sell me well made, well functioning, single use devices, that serve their purpose well.

@pseudonym @swaggboi Regarding TVs, I went with a projector. Love the aesthetic! Its like being at a cinema!

Plus its got that benefit of only showing the images I send it through a VGA cable from my computer! No Internet required!

@alcinnz @swaggboi Good point. Considered that for my next TV, but I tend to ride things down the tech curve until they break, so possibly not for a while

@swaggboi

I've always thought this would be a great "repair" side business...

Someone I know was recently telling me about their wifi "smart" furnace... ​

I also have to wonder though about the warranty or even liability implications of such a fix...

I also hate living in the future, I'm going to borrow that one...

@float13 Warranty be damned I say! You're probably right though, this is why we need right to repair laws. Also I didn't make up the 'I hate living in the future' line :joy: I can't remember where I heard it before but I just know I heard it before

@swaggboi

Just particularly for gas related appliances or anything that can fail spectacularly... I wonder what the manufacturer would say at legitimate attempts to secure it (especially to deflect from the fact that it should probably never have been connected to the internet in the first place and doing so was really more of a marketing gimmick than anything else...)

@float13 @swaggboi

"Smart" gas meters.

Every time I think of them, I think of that grad student at U Hawaii. They never even found any identifiable PART of her forearm.

@[email protected] @[email protected] what's up with people connecting everything to the damn internet

it's come to a point where i'm surprised to see stuff that isn't connected.

@swaggboi Write it up. There needs to be a directory of how to disable IoT stuff on appliances.

@drwho I basically just did lol... I can't find any reliable formal documentation but I found some internet threads on how to disable it like, the 'correct' not voiding warranty way and it didn't work (also found reddit threads of folks reporting the same story). I literally just pulled this plug out of desperation (none of the text stamped on the PCB made any sense to me, not a hardware person) then plugged the fridge in to test all the functionality. It make thing cold still, still make ice but no more wifi SSID comin out. I have no idea what this is or what I actually did. My buddy knows more about what is safe to fuck with and what isn't when it comes to capacitor this and that so if I can lure them over to my new place maybe I'll see if they can explain what's going on with this PCB then blog it

@swaggboi
I know what I'm doing to my TVs tomorrow now. The other appliances are thankfully dumb as a brick

@swaggboi I love me some cool tech, but I still don't get how we got from someone thinking up the phrase "Internet of Things" to "WiFi-connected tea kettles anyone?"

Never have I seen the phrase "I love my Smart TV" anywhere, and I spend hours on the web each day. But folks should be more discrete about how they disable things. Just wait until they decide to put WiFi in the remote and take away the IR thingy.

That's where the fun begins...

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=AOEQ9GteWbg

@swaggboi yeah... I blocked my Samsung TV from reaching the internet by filtering it's MAC address in my router. That thing used to be chatty AF and hammered my PiHole. Plus, image quality sucks badly. I think I won't buy anything else from Samsung. Ever.