It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
Yeah, it's a bit of a tangent from your post but it all eventually folds into things that will eventually become useless because of capitalist pressure and failure.
Like you constantly hear about why people's lightbulbs stop working because the firmware update wrecked everything or they used a cheaper, third-party bulb.