Replacing a dishwasher. Most of the mid-range options now come with fucking Wi-Fi. Found a model I liked, no info in manual and support from Samsung was of course, useless since it wasn’t already in the manual and wanted to keep talking about their exciting “smart things” app. gag.

I saw a youtube video of a guy disconnecting wifi cable on a fridge. I’m fine doing that if I have to open up the board but it’ll probably be smaller than the fridge and who knows if it’ll be helpfully labled like the one in the video was. Internet searching showed me there may be oven keypress combinations to turn wi-fi radio on/off. Anyone have anything similar/advice for Samsung appliances, specifically dishwashers?

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-26 points

Then require one. You’re acting like this is an unavoidable thing. You just simply don’t connect the appliance to the Internet.

It’s not difficult.

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Ok dude.

Have you ever set up one of these devices? It’s not a case of ‘find my wifi, enter in passkey, connected’ they literally broadcast an unsecured ad hoc network that you connect to and configure from.

If you never connect it it will sit there blaring an unsecured wifi with access to its core configuration forever

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Explain the 30+ million open WiFi networks on Wigle if WiFi networks require a password.

https://wigle.net/stats

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15 points

I can’t make my neighbors require one.

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-21 points

Home wifi requires a password. This isn’t 1990

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What router are you using that legit requires a password for access?

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10 points

It as a protocol does not and has never required a password. Nor have routers ever required it.

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At least in some places, having open wi-fi without KYC is illegal, so the neighbors aren’t going to do this - passwordless is not the default.

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8 points

I can’t make my neighbours obey the law either

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18 points

Some people live in apartments.

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Neighbors, bro. You can’t control networks you don’t own.

Are you really this obtuse, or is this just an act?

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