Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoIt’s only a matter of time before corporate WANs like Amazon sidewalk and/or the ever decreasing cost of cellular modems and IOT contracts mean they won’t even ask anymore.
Then it’s time to heat up the soldering iron and disable the wireless connectivity in hardware.
underisk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
which is great until you realize that if it cant connect to a server somewhere to download the latest Ad manifest it crashes the OvenOS and now your warranty is void AND you can’t bake a cake.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
In that case it would be unusable in any remote area without cell service too.
underisk@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
doesn’t seem to have stopped them from locking functionality that does not require an internet conneciton behind an internet connection, so i don’t see why they would care.