Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won't dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component

I don’t know why I’m surprised. Usually at this point in the corporate life cycle, the original brand is running a company whose main asset is the contract to provide uniforms for the janitors that clean the buildings it sold to a spin-off that is long-term leasing them to the third company that still makes the original product, except it’s part of a multinational conglomerate that also makes girdles, ukulele strings, and the nosecone for the Space Shuttle.

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