That white goods equipped with little-tune-playing beepers can use it to beep diagnostic data down the phone to customer support.
That's pretty clever. Wish I'd thought of it.
Is it your fridge, freezer or washing machine that's broken down?
Someone else's washing machine, in this instance.
The fridge is purely mechanical and continues to chug along adequately, though I have electronic
BRANES to retrofit as a work in progress.
Our boiler's broken, but fortunately not in a way that causes it to know that it's broken...