Good reason not to have wifi on your refrigerator
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I found out my dead Amana washer has about 15 electronic parts that can fail AND all of its electronic parts are proprietary. It's a $650 retail machine with a market price of $450. It would cost $200- $300 to fix it.
I will have it removed from my house, from where it sits, taken to an appliance graveyard. Nevermind the exigencies nvolved. I don't care.
And one with WiFi? When hell freezes over.
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French blood banks were on Monday affected by the recent wave of cybersecurity attacks on European refrigeration systems, the French Blood Establishment confirmed on Wednesday.
The organization said that while it wasn’t the direct target of the attack, cold storage units operated by external providers containing the EFS’ blood products were compromised across three of its sites, with hackers cranking up temperatures.
“Specifically, temperature and defrost thresholds were set to excessively high levels,” the EFS said in a statement translated from French to English by CNBC.
“These cold storage units—located at EFS preparation and distribution sites—are used to store blood products prior to their delivery to healthcare facilities, as well as samples intended for EFS biobanks.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/04/blood-bank-fridges-cyberattacks.html
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Technology has become much too complicated as well as intrusive.
All of this is much more of an energy sink than a convience.
It also (electronics in appliances and devices, and cars, unfortunately) has a clear (and severe) tie in with planned obsolescence.
I started using Android for the simplicity of it, the easy to understand and use software interface.
Motorola has added so much bloatware to my phone since I bought it that it's not the same phone now. It also changes the user interface in numerous and random ways every matter of days (not weeks).
Its battery is starting to drain progressively faster for the maker's purpose that a phone with a sealed battery (or every phone) is on a downward glide path to becoming inoperable (when otherwise it would last for many years).
This is one time I won't mind it. I hate this phone with a passion.
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France has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression", adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions "at the European level".
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I've decided not to have WIFI period.
I don't want the police to be easily and without a warrant be able to see holographic images of me in my home in real time.
That's creepy AF.
I closed my account.
My phone records my location and listens to me 24/7, but at least I can make sure the camera is not pointed at me if I want.
Cold comfort but at least it's something.
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