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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Why a washing machine need the connect to the Internet in the first place?

[-] mizzyc@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

So you can manually put your laundry inside it, go to your bed and tell the machine to wash it like you didn't had to get up to put your laundry inside it.

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