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At this point I don't want things with nonfree firmware in my house.
by swiley 6y ago
At this point I don't want things with nonfree firmware in my house.
- loraa 6y agoYou have that choice,but probably not for the price you want. People want the cheapest things and then wonder why they're not the most feature packed with 24/7 American tech support.
- zbrozek 6y agoNice sentiment, but hard to deliver. You have a dishwasher and a fridge, right? They've been running firmware you don't get to inspect for a couple of decades already. Luckily they don't have network access.
- bigbubba 6y agoHow many years is 'decades'? About 4 or 5 years ago I took apart a freezer that was about 10 years old. The compressor seemed to be switched by a thermostat; I found nothing that would have firmware.
- rovr138 6y agoThat freezer is 1.5 decades.
- bigbubba 6y agoYes, and wouldn't really surprise me if freezers with the same design can still be found in stores today.
- fingerlocks 6y agoThey can, but they will lack features like vacation mode, cleaning mode, fault sensors, and door ajar audio notification.