GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven without connecting to WiFi

Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by RansomStark on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:51PM (#30571247)

Every time I see a story like this I'm reminded how close we are to unauthorized bread [0] and it saddens me each time.

Humanity was given the greatest communication tool we could imagine and we use it to spy on people and steal their data, so companies can sell more shit. What a waste.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41085118-unauthorized-br...

On a side note, I'm convinced Doctorow is the greatest cyberpunk writer there is, but I'm also sure the reason for this is because earlier writers had to imagine a dystopian future. Doctorow, like the rest of us, is living that future (which is much more boring that fiction made out) and he's simply documenting what he sees.

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Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by notreallyserio on Saturday March 05, 2022 @04:24PM (#30572045)

There's also the classic verification can: https://m.imgur.com/dgGvgKF . Not exactly the same thing but tangentially related.

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Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by fennecfoxen on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:29PM (#30573078)

Every time I read about the latest smart-appliance fad, the Amish look a little bit more prudent, and I get one day closer to buying something good and low-tech from Lehman's or the like https://www.lehmans.com/

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Re:GE won’t let me use convection roast on my new oven witho... by calumetregion on Saturday March 05, 2022 @04:56PM (#30572324)

Agree, but this assumes humans would ever had used it for anything else.

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