I’m always baffled about people looking at things like this compartment and don’t think it has any kind of significance whatsoever.
Like do they think it’s just put there fore giggles? How uninterested in the world around you can you be?
It drives me nuts when i encounter people like this.
Not quite fair, since once you know it’s a compartment it’s obvious that it’s for something, but with all the sensors and access panels appliances have that are not user serviceable it’s not that surprising that there could be a plastic panel in the door of your dishwasher that appeared to do nothing.
Really the only thing that might raise an eyebrow is that it is in a door that gets wet so limiting extra things like that would be good, but perfectly reasonable to assume it was for some type of sensor if you didn’t notice the little latch for the door.
There’s a little protrusion in the base to check the height of the water, have you ever closely examined that to see if it says ‘put bleach in here’ or something?
Wait until he discovers that you can clean the filters at the bottom and get things even cleaner.
Everyone saying to rtfm has not lived in rental housing with the landlord special dish washer. You can only rtfm when you have tm.
But anyway, putting a bit of soap in with your pre wash isn’t a bad idea. Maybe not a whole tablet but then again, maybe they never thought to look for powdered soap before. I certainly didnt until I watched the technology connections video.
In this day and age, a manual pdf is only a search away. All you need is the model number which should be easy to find for any appliance.
I bought a new Bosch dishwasher this year, we’d been using our old broken one as a place to dry dishes for about 2 years. Supposedly this new one has wifi and whatnot. Only ever pushed the “start” button. Yes, I work in IT. 🤷🏽♀️
I refuse to buy a dishwasher with any kind of wifi or network connection in it. This is a hill I will die on. I will wash my clothes with a god-damned washboard before I buy a washing machine with wifi in it.
It’s pretty obvious where they want to take these things. The clothes washer and dish washer companies look at the printer companies with envy. Why do you think they’ve been pushing dish and clothes pods so heavily? Eventually your washing machine or dishwasher will not work off of generic powder or liquid at all. Instead it will only use “cartridges,” plastic boxes maybe the size of 1-lb box of butter. Such a thing would have enough detergent to supply a dishwasher or washing machine for many months. But if they really want to pull the printer game, they need the devices to be wifi enabled so they can let them phone home to keep the DRM working properly.
They are trying to turn dishwashers and clothes washers into printers. That is the ultimate goal of connecting these devices to the net.
I would argue that your career has given you the wisdom to understand how the phrase “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” applies to technology. So you just instinctively know that a dishwasher doesn’t need a network stack to do the job it was built for. And adding one is creating a lot more complexity for very demising returns.
This guy clearly doesn’t subscribe to technology connections
…or has much common sense—what did he think that thing on the door was all about.
Wait till this guy discovers he should probably use rinse aid and salt too
Edit: oh…and he’s definitely never cleaned the filter
This guy clearly doesn’t subscribe to technology connections
Guys, guys…guys…
LET’S TALK ABOUT HEAT PUMPS!!! :D
Did you know most residential “car chargers” are just glorified extension cords?
I wash by hand. Please convince me to use a dishwasher?