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TIL washers now have WiFi connectivity. Inching ever closer to the dystopic cyberpunk era where you really can hack everything in sight.
Only a few more years until I can overclock my couch!
I overclocked my clock and now I'm never late!
You can get smart couches right now.
Yes, but a couch doesn't stop functioning as a couch if the smart functions stop working.
Neither does a smart washing machine.
If the motherboard takes a shit? A washing machine will absolutely stop functioning entirely. A couch is still a couch.
That could happen to the washing machine whether it's "smart" or not.
A proper older washing machine doesn't have a motherboard.
Yes it does
And there's my point. A couch is still a couch, smart features or not.
And a washing machine is still a washing machine, smart features or not. Every washing machine is going to have a controller board that can break.
I guess you'll need to go back at least 40 years. Even so, if the belt or motor breaks then the washing machine doesn't work either.
Well sure, but my original point was that a "smart" couch still functions perfectly fine as a couch with or without its "smart" features.
Cory Doctorow's 'Unauthorized Bread' is about exactly that scenario.
That sounds like a great read, thanks for the information
I saw this when I had to get new machines 7-8 years ago. However they were an extra like $300 for each machine. wtf.
I would kill for some sort of audio out or usb, but even better would be Zigbee/z-wave/thread, and you can do it for less than $20 in parts.
Now that Matter/Thread has standard profiles for laundry machines and has a chance of building interoperability, I hope my next machines will, for a reasonable cost and no cloud requirement