… because you connected it to the internet. Don’t do it if you don’t want it to happen bud.
But getting a notification when the washer is done…or telling the dryer to tumble for 10 more mins so I can come home to a hot blanket…is just soooo nice.
Imagine doing it analog like a bum.
I do my bum digitally, thank you very much.
One or two digits?
I prefer the decimal system.
It’s a three knuckler
TIL I rawdog my laundry.
Wouldn’t that be hilarious if an appliance manufacturer started bitcoin mining using decentralized appliances because… They could? They’d never do that though. Only some greedy, lowdown, crappy corporation could do that.
On the flip side. Power consumption of the device would spike for that model/brand so it’d be found out…
Unless they waited until four months of use and then flipped it on. Not many home users would test the energy usage of thier appliances and no official tests would run for four months.
Actually not a bad idea. Design an ASIC that runs real hot, use that to heat a dryer drum instead of a heating element. Most dryer plugs can offer 5kw of power…
That’s how I used to heat my bedroom in the Athlon XP era. It was always quite cozy in the wintertime.
All corporations are greedy and crappy, this is exactly something they would all do
Hence the joke
✨ <- your last three neurons exploding into fireworks.
It’s probably being used in a DDOS attack 😅
Why is your washing machine using data?
Sending back details of your wash load, e.g. color and materials of your undies to LG headquarters so that their specialized AIs running on 64k core rtz6980s can analyze and optimize the wash cycles and delivery time of the bleach and softener based on training data garnered from millions of similar households for the perfect outcome each time, every time no doubt. These blockchains don’t exactly build themselves, you know.
Cleaning data
Why no one is talking about the background
I think because it is part of the meme. The Unabomber’s manifesto railed against technology and how it was detrimental to society.
why does your washing machine need to be connected to the internet??
Apt complex chose these as the ovens.
When you look at wifi signals all you see is a field of LG OVEN LG OVEN LG OVEN LG OVEN
It’s for elderly too so no one has ever even used this superfluous feature.
Like you still have to get up to switch over the laundry what is even the point
If I were living in that apartment complex I’m going door to door and disabling the WiFi on every oven.
If you wanna know why you’d want it connected: notifications for status as well as simple diagnostics, a manual, a self hosted maintenance record, etc etc.
The reason they’re actually connected is for sales metrics.
I have an all in one washer/dryer from LG. It’s handy to know that the laundry is finished so you can go start another load or if it errored out while you were not in earshot from being unbalanced you can go fix it. Since the all in ones take about 7 hours for a load you need to be ready to swap.
For the oven it was super handy with young kids to know someone turned on the stove. You can also check a cook timer from afar.
Internet of things vlan.
With an ad blocker dns
Pihole+firebog is my current solution and everything is behind that. The Echos get bounced by it a tonne.
I thought about building a IOT Vlan but I have one smart TV and one firestick and that’s all it would be for. Then I’d have to manually update the jellyfin so it doesn’t seem quite so pressing.
And last time this was posted I said my LG oven and Washer both have used less than 20megs in the last month. So the guys shit is broken.
