Airing dirty laundry?

Crypto mining?

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

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.

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

And was debunked then as being bullshit. Numerous other people posted the logs of their machines on the network and no one even came close to these numbers. Ffs, that kind of data usage would imply VIDEO STREAMING. You're not getting that amount from usage/diagnostic data. And I love people saying "oh well it's audio recording you" with zero proof, let alone that none of these machines are even voice activated(themselves, not referring to using it with Alexa/Google home, in which case the thing recording you isn't Samsung).

It's just fear mongering with no proof because it aligns with things we've seen before and want to believe is true.

This article is 19 months old.

And just as relevant today as it was then. Also reddit: I haven't seen this (particular) article before, so it's worth reposting so I and people like me get the message.

I factory reset my LG TV and refused to give it the WiFi password when they said they were going to use AI to analyze what people were watching on the TV to know best what ads to show us. Fuck that.

The TV is excellent as a dumb TV. Don’t need internet access.

You can already but you won't because it's 3-4x the price. Speed Queen is one of them. Your comment is just performative.

They really should have options with transparent pricing:

Mechanical washing machine $500: 350 + 150 for the warranty to cover mechanical control system breakage

Electronic washing machine $400: 300 + 100 for the warranty to cover electronic control system problems

Smart washing machine $275: $300 + 75 for warranty (less due to remote update option) - 100 for our anticipated profit on your data

The last time my dryer went out, it was going to cost a few hundred to fix it. Instead, I took off the cover on the controls, found the circuit board, found the ID numbers on it, Googled them, found it from some electronic supply place, ordered it, removed two screws and unclipped the old one, plugged in the new one and secured it with the 2 screws, and it still works, more than 10 years later. Cost about $50 for the circuit board.

If the mechanics of a washer or dryer still work, then it's probably just the circuit board.

LG: We are proud to introduce our groundbreaking next generation technology - washing machine based cloud services for businesses

Unironically an innovative way to drive the heating element

You got a genuine laugh out of me. Amazing.