Especially true with fridges. In door water and ice being big points of failure.

Eventually people might learn why they should not just prefer to have, but actually require open systems for all the computers in their lives, even the ones hidden inside of their appliances, instead of buying these locked down, pre-programmed, remote-updated internet-of-shit devices.

If you can't get root and boot access on your device, decide what you're updating it with and when, you don't own it or control it in the first place. You're just letting some shitty company (and maybe anyone at all with the amount of security flaws these devices have) directly into your home and network to decide what you can or can't do with your product (and when and how much it's going to cost), while they take advantage of every opportunity they can think of to spy on you and extract money from you. Any device with microchips in it isn't just an appliance anymore, it's a trojan horse full of gross and creepy salesmen and they're going to be there forever, watching you and figuring out ways to get more of your money.

Unless, years from now, the only fridges you can buy are smart. Like TVs now.

I wonder if it would be possible to blacklist words on my devices or even just lemmy. Curated would be on the list, as well as slammed.