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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by stjohnswarts on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:24PM (#30155520)
but why? I mean if I'm doing laundry I'm within 50 ft of the machine generally? I have never needed to do such an operation or can think of a situation where the added complexity merits the addition of wifi and security threats of a Russian hacker trying to mine etherium on my dish washer.
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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by formerly_proven on Monday January 31, 2022 @06:30PM (#30156359)
I can't claim to know every Miele there is but both an early 80s and an early 2010s Miele has pause/continue buttons. On the 2010 one it even looks like a play-pause button.
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