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1. diskzero · 1790171248 · focus · HN ↗

   We ended up with a Samsung fridge in our new home. It has no external display or any other indication that it is a "smart" fridge. I only found out when a friend visited who has a Samsung phone and the phone offered to connect to the fridge. We spent the next 30 minutes removing panels from the fridge and found the wifi/bluetooth antenna on a small board under the top-right hinge cover. The board was disconnected and the fridge continues to operate normally.

   I am now eyeing my dishwasher very suspiciously.

   1. washadjeffmad · 1790196050 · focus · HN ↗

      The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

      He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

      “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

      In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

      “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

      From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

      “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

      Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

      1. tocs3 · 1790215522 · focus · HN ↗

         How quaint, a paper contract that needed an actual written signature.

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