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Chest freezer with a dial thermostat

$150–250Buy on Amazon
Estimate. Prices change.

A compressor, a coil of pipe and a mechanical thermostat you turn by hand. Nothing in it answers to anyone outside the room, and it has no way of heating anything, which turns out to be a feature. Plenty of small chest freezers still ship like this; check that the listing says mechanical control.

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Survival checklist

What it survives, next to the smart one it replaces.
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=SURVIVES(threat)Survives…
ThisChest freezer with a dial thermostat
What it replacesSmart oneRemotely managed supermarket fridge
2
Power cut
FALSE
FALSE
3
Wi-Fi goes down
TRUE
FALSE
4
The company switches off its servers
TRUE
FALSE
5
Someone tries to hack it
TRUE
FALSE
6
A firmware update goes wrong
TRUE
FALSE
7
Twenty years from now
#DEPENDS
FALSE
8
=COUNTIF(TRUE)Total
4 of 64/6and one maybe
0 of 60/6

The smart one is the Remotely managed supermarket fridge.

Its row

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A dial from 1 to 7. Remote access means walking over to it.

Chest freezer with a dial thermostat

$150–250
Chest freezer with a dial thermostat$150–250
Buy on Amazon