FWI, I'd check Sear's and the other big sellers of appliances, usually when one has a sale the others will follow.
People will sue for anything these days. I saw a special on TV a few months ago where a guy was leveraging settlements from restaurant and gas station owners who were in violation of OSHA or ADA regs. Could be anything: handrails, stairs, door closing pressure, bathroom ada bars....I mean anything. This guy suffered no injuries, just wanted to monetarily punish the owners. He reported having "earned" over 500k per year. Sickening!
Forgot to tell the story on the drier, the wife went into the basement to get stuff from the freezer, she came up and said it's hot down there and something smell's hot. I went down and found the heat was coming from the back of the drier, the heating elements had been on all night without it running! I pulled the plug and told the wife, "That's it, we're getting a new drier today, I'm not even going to try and fix it, I won't be able to trust it." Lucky it didn't cause a fire in the middle of the night!
Thanks Willie, I actually went into Lowes today to look, unfortunately they don't have the type we want... Looks like Samsung make the cheapest one with all the features she wants, but might have to pay full price for it.
Yeah man, I literally just shelled out upward orlf 1k for a new fridge, but I had a feeling about this from the get go so it's not a huge surprise.
Yeah I have used a few of the new HE ones in various places, either front/top load, no center thing. The last place we were at, had a really fancy one that would fill up & drain a bit, until it would actually sense how much clothes were in it so it could only use the perfect amount of water, so that's definitely one of the features we're looking for but also with steam cycle.
Bluetooth/wifi diagnostics is looking also more & more like a useful feature.
It's just not a good time lol, too many recent purchases, plus we literally just bought this place. I made a bit of money in the settlement though bc the guy had a really bad paint scheme (picture clown pants), he must of liked it but he was obviously told by realtors & everyone else how bad it was... Anyways ended up doing myself crown molding everywhere but the bathrooms & painted the detailed bits, then paid some painters to do the rest. But doing most of it ourselves left us enough to upgrade the a/c condenser/furnace/hvac. I got some rebates for that from the gas/electric companies as long as I installed & used that stuff with a nest (or ecobee I think was the other choice) thermostat. So we made that stretch probably as far as it would go, but it's gone now.
It's just not a good time lol, too many recent purchases, plus we literally just bought this place. I made a bit of money in the settlement though bc the guy had a really bad paint scheme (picture clown pants), he must of liked it but he was obviously told by realtors & everyone else how bad it was... Anyways ended up doing myself crown molding everywhere but the bathrooms & painted the detailed bits, then paid some painters to do the rest. But doing most of it ourselves left us enough to upgrade the a/c condenser/furnace/hvac. I got some rebates for that from the gas/electric companies as long as I installed & used that stuff with a nest (or ecobee I think was the other choice) thermostat. So we made that stretch probably as far as it would go, but it's gone now.
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You might want to give this a read first. I have wifi on my washer/dryer (they can talk to Alexa, big buzzword in marketing just about anything these days) and I have never even turned it on. I know they have already used millions of wifi cameras in DOS attacks. The biggest problem is that while routers get firmware updates periodically, appliances seldom do, even if security holes are found.
Bluetooth talking to an app on your phone might not be bad though, as the range is limited, but I wouldnt let an appliance talk to my network.
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I got a new garage door and opener at my house in FL last year. A 16' door that meets wind codes here is not a DIY project. The opener has WiFi. If you turn it on, you can open and close your door (and monitor its state) using your smart phone, which of course means someone else's server is in the middle. Uhm, no thanks!
I'm not sure about the credibility of that article either. I mean it claims "An Echo is fine". Really? Call me a Luddite if you must, but I do not want a device with 7 microphones listening to every word I say.
I jinxed myself, I rinsed off the snow blower and took it off the John Deere last evening, now it's snowing... Not enough to stick, the ground is too warm but it bums me out to see it. Saw my first robin yesterday, hope they don't head back south LoL.
It snowed here, YET AGAIN, yesterday. Just enough to give a light coating to the grass and it didn't stay around past about noon, but still! Today it's showers with temps around 40. Crappy day! I'm waiting for some hardware for a few projects, mods and video related. I can work on the mods while it's raining, supposed to rain on and off every day through Friday, but the video stuff is outside work. Frustrating!
Did I mention I hate winter?
Did I mention I hate winter?
We got several inches Sunday night. Today is in the 60s.
The daffa's are dilling, the hya's are cynthing, the tu's are lipping, the for's are cythaing and we're still worried about snow. Well, it is the change of seasons and weather can be, just a tad, unpredictable. I remember, as a little kid in the mid 1950's, building a snowman sometime in mid April so it certainly isn't unprecedented in spite of the the climate dramatists.
Yup, back in the 90's we had a blizzard hit us around mother's day. Lot of snow with hard winds, went to check on my buddy's empty house, to get to it I had to wade though drifts that were up to ..... Somewhere on VHS tapes I have video of it.
Oh I actually live for those moments, I'm a network admin for a cybersecurity firm, & whenever the rare occasion that something like that actually happens, it's like the highlight of my year. lol.
tbh if someone can get past my router's OS & all of the firewalls, they really deserve a medal, but I've had that happen only once.
I also already have a ton of other smart stuff either Google assistant or Samsung smart things enabled, (no Alexa) there's lights, cameras, thermostat, front door lock, even the stupid refrigerator... so one washer isn't going to change anything, for me at least.
The irony of having a cell phone on a belt clip, while complaining about an Alexa.I got a new garage door and opener at my house in FL last year. A 16' door that meets wind codes here is not a DIY project. The opener has WiFi. If you turn it on, you can open and close your door (and monitor its state) using your smart phone, which of course means someone else's server is in the middle. Uhm, no thanks!
I'm not sure about the credibility of that article either. I mean it claims "An Echo is fine". Really? Call me a Luddite if you must, but I do not want a device with 7 microphones listening to every word I say.
I find that whole thing sort of narcissistic, & trust me I get that people don't like the Alexa's/Google home's bc they think they're being actively listened to etc. I've got 2 bridges & 3 Google homes (for voice commands like changing light colors or thermostat temp), if you want to follow an excersize in paranoia like me, I can tell you it's super easy to put them behind a VPN (but will only work for local commands).
but if they really wanted to listen to me, they'd do that through my cell phone's microphone, which goes everywhere with you rather than just one room. That's how the government does it anyway, but imo, if google/Alexa want to listen to my gf's 3 hours of drivel on what kind of cat we should get next (&trust me they don't), they are welcome to it.
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