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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    5 days ago

    Do not do this. You could break the device and it will hurt the value of the device either way. Do not spend extra just to effectively damage the device

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      If you’re careful and just disconnect the antenna properly such that you can plug it back in it should be okay.

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        4 days ago

        You you could get a device that you don’t need to do this to. They are becoming rare but not impossible to find. Get the dumb machine that is mostly mechanical