We don’t need things like refrigerators internet connected! Problem solved.

God is death. Just read the old testament. Spread the word, “God is death”.

You can set up a cron job to run a command on a schedule that you want. Here is one of many pages that explains that How to Set Up Cron Jobs on Linux (crontab Guide)

As consumers, we’ve got to start saying no to connected devices that really don’t need to be connected (and most don’t need to be connected anyway).