I buy dumb things, but it's getting harder to do.

It's getting to the point where I'm going to have to buy appliance and physically remove the electronics I don't want in there.

The trouble is, if I were them, I would code the appliance to stop functioning if the microphone fails. That means I will eventually have to clone, modify, and reflash the microprocessor.

I really don't want to make a business out of that because I really have better things to do. But I see this coming.