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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

why THE FUCK does a washisng machine need wifi??

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 21 minutes ago

Airing dirty laundry?

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 points 41 minutes ago

Crypto mining?

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 9 points 1 hour ago

Recorded audio, sent back to the corporate office to be transcribed and sold to 3rd parties.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 51 minutes ago

Yeah, is it really necessary to somehow control your laundry while you're at work? You start it before you leave, and when you get home, it's done. It's not like you can use your cell phone to move the wet clothes into the drier anyway, so who cares?

And what kind of data are they collecting, anyway? How many times I do laundry? It's not like they can tell which brands or products I'm using. It seems like useless empty data.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago

If it was a dryer I could understand it from a functional standpoint, I feel like my clothes are rarely dry after the first cycle so it would be cool to be able to start the second without needing to be in front of it. But I’m both stretching and lazy