How I Fought the Oven and Lost, While a Teen Hacker Won the Internet
3 min readDec 22, 2023
So there I was, in a YMCA hostel, staring blankly at an oven that seemed to need a PhD in Astrophysics to operate. I mean, who designs these things? The oven had more buttons than a NASA control panel, and I just wanted to heat up a pizza. Meanwhile, I’m also grappling with the enigma of why on Earth there are two remote controls for one TV. One apparently controls the…