Whenever someone designs or purchases a smart device, this is what they need to be told. Is it really worth the risk for potential harm?

Hanlon's razor, but its interesting to imagine that some Russian, US, Israeli, Chinese, etc agents infiltrated management at appliance manufacturers and convinced them to make all their devices smart, just so they could build bigger botnets

Yeah I would immediately return honestly, there are plenty other espresso makers that don't require wifi

99% of people couldn't give less of a fuck. The only way we get out of this death spiral is with smart legislation.

It doesn't need it. That's exactly the point.

Even though air frying doesn't need Internet, the manufacturer is restricting that feature as a way to force you to set up the WiFi, so they can then slurp up all your data.

They're literally holding the feature hostage, as motivation.

I had a bakery/kiosk mix of shop, where I baked bread every morning for 13 years or so. There was a customer who questioned my oven, because she actually does not know if it really radiates. And how I can be this sure about it. Its a damn oven! Like one in every household, just a bit bigger. People are really this dumb. Besides, it wouldn't be legal... oh man still upsets me. Not because of being accused for, but it upset me that people like her have the right to vote.

they’re using the Wi-fi radiation to cook your meals

You're thinking of microwaves.

How about the motherboard dying before the oven does

I can totally see a point in some of the features.

The other day my wife and I got 20 minutes from home before I said "oh shit I don't know if I turned the oven off". Turns out I did, but we had to drive home to check. I would have loved to pull up an app that told me it was actually off, or even if I was on be able to turn it off from there.

With that said, it's not worth all the extra bullshit in my opinion.

We can't say the word "Fuck" here? Serious question; why did you self censor?

My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with.

I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me.

If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved.

I got a "retrowave" in mint green. It's dumb, uses a turn dial to set the cook time, stands on little feet like it's from Rocko's Modern Life, and looks like it's from the 50's. Have a matching toaster and eventually want a matching fridge.

It's been 4 years and no issues which is more than I can say about a lot of other new appliances we've gotten for the house.

For dumb appliances with a fun aesthetics look up 'retro (name of appliance here) and you'll get all the brands who make stuff like that. It's the only way I've been able to avoid smart garbage so far.

It’s only a matter of time before corporate WANs like Amazon sidewalk and/or the ever decreasing cost of cellular modems and IOT contracts mean they won’t even ask anymore.

Then it's time to heat up the soldering iron and disable the wireless connectivity in hardware.

Stop! The MBAs can only get so erect

A fire is what you may get when a hacker decides to turn the oven on for you.

There are toilets that analyse your waste and send the results to your doctor. They ID you by scanning your anus since everyone's anus is unique. Maybe one day the results can be sent to your kitchen and your fridge and airfryer can deny you access to unhealthy foods when your toilet tells them to.