• blobjim [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The internet stuff is probably so they can sell your usage data for advertising analytics.

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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"?

        • 6bicycles [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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

      • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        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.