26 points

Imagine spending extra money on a new clothes washer only to have someone turn it in to a crypto miner. 😬

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I’m too lazy to come up with a witty money laundering joke.

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No it couldn’t. My washing machine cant connect to my network! I can’t think of a valid reason why I would even want that.

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I tried it with our dish washer, just to see what it’s about. Turns out it’s all about nothing. It’s absolutely void of any useful functionality.

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Yeah, I don’t get it. I guess I can see the appeal of some “Internet Of Things” connected appliances, like smart fridges suggesting recipes and keeping track of stock and auto-populating shopping lists for you. I don’t need that personally, but I can see why it could appeal to some people.

But things like washing machines and dishwashers? You need to be there in person to fill them up just before they’re ready to go on, and to empty them when they’re done. And when they’re not turned on, they’re sat there doing nothing. What “smart” functions can they even offer?

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What “smart” functions can they even offer?

Notification that the cycle is finished and checking how much is left.

But that’s about it.

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5 points

And also providing more programs and options without having to tack on a full-colour LCD or anything like that. Pretty much just a cost saving measure on the manufacturing.

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My washer has WiFi but I’m sure as hell not turning it on. It tells me how long the cycle will be a few minutes after it starts and I’ll just set a timer on my phone - though most of the time I don’t bother because I never have so many loads that time is important.

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I guess I can see the appeal of some “Internet Of Things”

IoT, where the “S” stands for security…

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2 points

The joke when I was a kid was the remote control toaster.

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Because it’s advertised. That’s why.

A remarkable (and actually concerning) percentage of people completely lack the critical thinking skills to question whether that’s a good idea. The box says it has WiFi, WiFi is good, so I connect it to WiFi. Simple as that.

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I can think of a very valid reason. I very often forget that I ran the washing machine, I’m already investigating how to send a notification to my phone or computer after it is done. Right now I am checking how much electricity it consumes and when it stops doing it. But a API would be nicer.

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2 points

stick a bell onto it and take a moment to listen whenever you want to check.

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4 points

To wake the baby up?

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5 points

They sell clean/dirty indicator magnets for dishwashers for like $2.

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On one hand, it would be nice for us to drop the smart plug here, but at least those can be entirely local-only. I highly doubt any device API would be local.

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3 points

What about a NFC tag that starts a timer on your phone?

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1 point

Have you considered setting an alarm on your phone?

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20 points

Plot twist: it was the Asus router misreporting the amount of data.

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The only reason I can think of is to be alerted when the thing is done, but our phones have this thing called a timer that can be set to the any amount of time and it’ll count down to 0. It will even make noise when the timer gets to 0!

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Sure they have, put down the bong and stop hallucinating. Phones counting, backwards even, and making noises lol sure thing, Cheech.

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I swear! My cousin’s friend’s brother has a girlfriend in another country and she showed them and my cousin posted it on tiktok and now he’s an influencer.

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I love that my phone still can only do one timer. So if I need to keep track of two things I have to use my watch and my phone. Like a primitive savage

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Well the missing socks have to get sent somewhere… /s

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I’m sure they’re being downloaded to Russia and then sold back to the west to finance the war!

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Yes, socks can turn into a lot of data really fast, especially if they are multithreaded. Which is why I only use single threaded socks to protect my dataplan.

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So much for my fibre connection…

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This is the same reason why you dont feed farrets string (or thread, etc…) /s

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Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!) I think we can safely assume which socks his washer is transmitting.

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Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!)

Redundancy!

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I believe that fluids don’t, in general, compress. But maybe the trick is turning them to digital data first and then redundancy makes them very compressible.

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The info in each sperm is effectively identical, so it’s still only 27.5 MB of data in the whole thing, just with a lot of redundancy for error detection / correction.

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3 points

You wouldn’t download a sock

I’m too lazy to Photoshop it into a real image

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Modem = Materializer and De-Materializer

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