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Wow this is timely for me. Just ran into this issue a few weeks ago when my mother's refrigerator needed a filter. I bought the bypass kit and figured I'd swi
by rrmm 6y ago
Wow this is timely for me. Just ran into this issue a few weeks ago when my mother's refrigerator needed a filter. I bought the bypass kit and figured I'd switch the RFID chips in eventually, but I haven't had a chance to due to everything going on at the moment.
Stuff like this is trash. So often you only find out you have this technology after it's too late and own an appliance with it.
I am not a fan of more regulations, but if large companies are going to insist on acting like unprincipled jerk-ass immature children about things, more regulation is exactly what they're going to get. And I'll gladly vote for them.
If companies show again and again they can not act responsibly without regulation, I don't have time to listen to them whine about it any longer.
- wu_187 6y agoThe worst part is often people don't buy their refrigerator, it comes with their house/apartment as a package deal. So you would literally have no clue that this is a thing until it happens. And in the case of an apartment, you literally have no choice in the matter (cant use your own refrigerator) if the apartment maintenance wont replace the filter.
- phrotoma 6y agoCheck out Cory Doctorow's novella "Unauthorized Bread". It's about _exactly_ this problem.
- greggman3 6y agoWhere is this? I've been in > 25 apartments. Only once did it come with a fridge. It was easily 20yrs old, still worked, but 100% sure the landlord would have let me replace it with my own
- qppo 6y agoThe only place I've lived where refrigerators weren't the norm in a unit was Los Angeles.
- vertis 6y agoVery rare in Australia for the fridge to be in a rental property unless it's furnished.
- Larrikin 6y agoI've never lived in an apartment in the US that didn't have a fridge. The only time I have needed to buy appliances was my apartment in Tokyo and luckily I had a roommate that supplied most of them from their old place.
- jpindar 6y agoThe majority of apartments in the US come with appliances, as do many rental houses.
- acomjean 6y agoThey should be forced to show the filter cost on the “it costs x per year” to run this device sticker, (which usually is for electricity)