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Comment by denkmoon | Hacker News Reader

Perhaps it is time to wrap our TVs and other consumer electronics in faraday tape.

I can't wait until my microwave tells the manufacturer how often I'm reheating my pizza.

The more likely course of action is your microwave refusing to work without internet connection, so that it can verify the DRM on your pizza, make sure you are using only the approved, overpriced pizzas.

Also, it will be sold to the public as "verifying that you are using the fresh and genuine product".

You joke, but we already have this type of mess with Keurig, Nespresso Vertuo and that Silicon Valley juicer whose name I forgot.

Juicero.

I don't joke. I am a frequent reader of /r/shittykickstarters and it's a popular business model amongst these startup hardware products.

Oh... thats where you are going wrong, when reheating pizza it is best to use a pan, although the base may get crispy. The oven works quite well too. Sure they take longer but tastes so much better!

I can't wait for my iot pan and stove respectively tell their manufacturers how often i'm reheating pizzas. Maybe my iot stove fan will get there first. All way after my iot fridge ofc called home to tell me to buy more pizza.

I can totally imagine a future iot fan to have chemical sensors so that it can send a "fingerprint" of the food you're cooking ...

An air fryer works wonderfully to reheat pizza or anything else involving bread. If it's something thick like a sandwich, I'll give it a low power preheat in the microwave first.

I can see a future where it will be necessary to start opening up new consumer electronics and using small wire cutters, precision screwdrivers and needle nose pliers to physically rip out the Wi-Fi functionality.

Why would this be more likely to happen in the future? Is the future steampunk? Let’s try ripping WiFi chip off present day pcb and see what happens.

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