Technology is nothing but a tool by which the ruling class make everything worse, cmv
slapping the rock out of an otter's little hands and telling him to find clams which are already open or something
Lmao wtf. Why even have a dishwasher that's connected to the internet? You go on your phone from a different part of your house/apt and then turn on the dishwasher?
You don't even need the internet for that - it could just be handled through a LAN, and even Bluetooth up to certain distances, if for whatever reason you absolutely insist on not walking a few steps to manually push a button. This whole smart appliances shit is just thoroughly stupid.
DECT ranges up to 100m easily and if you ever need to turn your dishwasher on from a distance more than that, that's on you
setting up my own private satellite network so I can remotely turn on various appliances in my many properties across the globe :big-cool: :melon-musk:
The only smart device in my home is my computer, and I have a baseball bat in case it starts acting up.
Smart thermostats actually make a lot of sense from an energy grid perspective because you can sync up the centralized power production with real-time data coming from its consumers, as well as doing things like adjusting peoples' thermostats during blizzards to ensure you don't get rolling brownouts from everyone putting their furnace at 85 degrees simultaneously.
Like everything else though, capitalism decided to use this great idea to shove ads into your eyeballs in the most invasive and wasteful manner possible.
sync up the centralized power production with real-time data coming from its consumers
They can already do this with power meters used for determining electricity usage for power bills.
True. Knowing what people have their thermostats set to (especially if those thermostats are on a preprogrammed schedule to change temps throughout the day) allows them to know what demand will be as well though, which is very useful.
They could probably do that using power meter trend data from previous years as well 😉
Which works right up until climate change decides to dump a foot of snow on Houston and suddenly the grid is overtaxed by a factor of ten and you have no way of handling that other than half-heartedly asking people to maybe please turn their heaters down a little. This way you can go "actually we're going to set everyone's thermostats to 65 so the transformers don't fucking explode and half a million people freeze to death, wear a sweater for a few days."
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but WHY!?!?! I say this as someone who knows a thing or two about software engineering, what purpose does this hold other than "muh novelty!?!", there's a chip shortage in the world that can be better served in hospitals or bringing internet access to rural communities and we waste it on pointless garbage like this?!?
The internet stuff is probably so they can sell your usage data for advertising analytics.
I'm usually good on figuring out how data is valuable but fucking dishwasher data? The only thing I could figure out is like, household size or times of activity and you could do that shit with a power reading and nobody would have a clue. What's the goal here. Or is it just sort of "someone out there will buy it"?
I'm gonna do an effortpost some day about how people try to mash together "thing I think is cool" with "entirely different problem" and the brainworms of that.
I can't tell you how many projects I've seen where everybody was fully onboard digitally archiving miles of files and then once it's done everyone is like "uhh so now what" because they didn't think farther than to do the cool tech thing and now they're stuck with 10 terrabytes of digital files that should've been thrown out in the 80s
It's all there to justify the non-essential and easily-breakable parts that totally impede the function of the washer if they're not in working order.
If you, the director of toasters at an appliance company, convince the higher ups that there's a market for smart toasters, then you get to hire an entire new team of software engineers to make the smart toasters happen, which inflates your headcount and budget, which makes you more important, which makes you more likely to be promoted, which is exactly the kind of thing that motivates you, because if that wasn't what made you tick, you wouldn't have become the director of toasters at an appliance company in the first place.
viewer data is TV makers' primary profit stream these days so the shitfucks are now making it so that the TV will grab your neighbor's open wifi just to report back to base
I saw someone else's TV in my Windows Explorer Network page even though our Wi-Fi is WPA2 password protected and wasn't connected to the Wi-Fi. Absolutely no idea how it showed up in explorer unless it's something to do with UPnP??? My desktop computer doesn't have Wi-Fi. Oh look at that, just checked and now I see a Brother printer.
Just looked up my problem again and supposedly it's caused by WPS. So I disabled WPS in the router, probably forgot to turn it off when I reset the settings.
wait does that mean that TV manufacturers are exploiting WPS being vulnerable just so their shit can connect to the Internet?
Might be that or it might be something to do with how WPS works in general since it's used for setting up stuff like TVs. But it wouldn't make sense why it was in my computer's network panel. Maybe someone actually hacked into my network since I had it enabled. I dunno.
