CAFE by GE for those who are wondering.

We are renovating our house including all new appliances. I have told my partner to make sure we get non smart appliances. This is why.

Yes I can setup a VLAN for it to be on but that’s not the point.

  • rem26_art@fedia.io
    1·
    3 months ago

    they’re using the Wi-fi radiation to cook your meals /s

    Thats really, really dumb. I can understand maybe wanting the option of having your oven ping your phone when the timer goes off, but what could it possibly need internet access for in order to turn on the heating element and a fan for a set period of time??

    • tiramichu@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 months ago

      It doesn’t need it. That’s exactly the point.

      Even though air frying doesn’t need Internet, the manufacturer is restricting that feature as a way to force you to set up the WiFi, so they can then slurp up all your data.

      They’re literally holding the feature hostage, as motivation.

      • gazter@aussie.zone
        0·
        3 months ago

        Is data on when I turn the oven on, and how long I run it for, even worthwhile? Or do you think it’s sniffing out other info from my network?

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I’ve honestly come to the conclusion that some companies have management that actually believes its worth while to collect the most meaningless telemetry data, even after the ridiculous cost of bandwidth, database storage, hosting, etc. which all become more bonkers the larger the dataset. I’ve seen the cloud bills for actual useful data, I don’t want think about how much they must be paying AWS/Azure/GCP to host such worthless data. There’s no way its at all profitable to do so

        • CafecitoHippo@lemm.eeEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

          Is data on when I turn the oven on, and how long I run it for, even worthwhile?

          They wouldn’t be holding you hostage for it if it wasn’t.

          • Don_alForno@feddit.org
            1·
            3 months ago

            Nah. Corporations aren’t all knowing godlike beings. They are run by stupid people who make mistakes, just like us.

    • SteevyT@beehaw.org
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      3 months ago

      they’re using the Wi-fi radiation to cook your meals

      You’re thinking of microwaves.