Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol

• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I rip the wifi car out and if that’s not available all things can be solved with the proper application of an angle grinder.

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  • ZMonster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Careful, the last person with a modicum of common fucking sense almost got flamethrowered by Beef Supreme.

    “Hey, I just thought of something crazy, maybe DON’T kick yourself in the balls?”

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• JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d rather not reward manufacturers that include that just to raise the price and track and sell your data with my money.

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  • ZMonster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you missed the bus.

    I’d rather not reward manufacturers that include that just to raise the price

    Cool cool, you do you homie

    and track and sell your data with my money.

    If you didn’t connect the device to the internet… Then… There is no “data”

    This isn’t a difficult concept. The device didn’t ship with your WiFi broadcast ID and password preset in the firmware. Are you saying that the product has a sim card that will just relay info back regardless of whether or not you connect it? And the manufacturer is cool just paying for this connection? What “data”???

    Yet again, don’t willingly and intentionally connect it to anything that has access to the internet. JFC, is it really that abstract of a concept that confounds all others? I don’t think I needed to be told this. It’s the very definition of self-evident.

    What the absolute fuck is happening? Did everyone eat brain tumors for breakfast?

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Whether it actually happened or not, that was their intent. If you’re happy to reward that behavior, well, “you do you.”

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