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AEG consumer electronics are pure trash nowadays and have nothing to do with the OG AEG company. IIRC, it's a Chinese brand now who licensed the AEG brand name.
Should have taken this a bit further. I think that microwave showing you "I'm a teapot" error would be hilarious.
I refuse to own an oven that is internet connected. If my oven has enough of a computer to have a firmware that can be updated remotely, it is too dangerous to own.
I refuse to own an oven that is internet connected. If my oven has enough of a computer to have a firmware that can be updated remotely, it is too dangerous to own.
My oven is Internet connected. It can't be turned on remotely unless I press a button on the oven itself, and even then it'll only allow it once. The WiFi functionality is also such total garbage that it'll only stay connected for a few days, and requires physically unplugging and re-plugging the power to the oven to get it to reconnect.
That it's possible at all suggests that the oven is only one bad firmware update away from turning itself on when you don't intend it.
Conceivably such a limitation could be built into the hardware; e.g. with a button that works like a circuit breaker. Set to break after the oven starts once and requiring the user to manually reset it. But the odds of it actually being implemented in this way, rather than pure software, is virtually nil.
We’re inching ever closer to the day when HTTP 418 is no longer a joke.
They already exist. We're living in the future and/or a joke.
This and Russia turning the yellow arches sideways calling it Uncle Vanya make it feel like we've entered Los Santos.
I refuse to own an oven that is internet connected. If my oven has enough of a computer to have a firmware that can be updated remotely, it is too dangerous to own.
My oven is Internet connected. It can't be turned on remotely unless I press a button on the oven itself, and even then it'll only allow it once. The WiFi functionality is also such total garbage that it'll only stay connected for a few days, and requires physically unplugging and re-plugging the power to the oven to get it to reconnect.
I'm not sure I'd be willing to believe a manufacturer on this. This feature is probably implemented in software, rather than hardware - simply because it's cheaper.
The idea of any of these home appliances being internet connected really blows my mind.
Presently have those lighting spark things on my 5 year old samsung. Already failures.
No, I do not want networking, apps, wifi, touchscreens or any form of digitality.
This shit is glitter for the "technologically educated" class. Turning a $1 tshirt into a $10 tshirt