Can’t wait to find out how this upgrade enhances my dishwasher’s performance.

[reay@beige.party]

@dan @APBBlue
@FirewallDragons

[arrestjk@mastodon.nz]

@aiuto @someone_else @dan LOL your dishwasher will enjoy that

[walshman23@mastodon.social]

@someone_else @dan I just got a new dishwasher. Certain (not often used, thank goodness) cleaning cycles are only available via "the app". I made a conscious decision to forego access to these so I would not need to put the thing on the network. But it's very annoying that this tradeoff even needed to be considered. Bosch 800 series, in case anyone cares.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@someone_else @dan

Home appliances are on the internet as part of a planned obsolescence scheme.

They can be bricked remotely to force consumers to buy new appliances.

They are also vulnerable to being hijacked for botnet mischief, surveillance, and kill switches

[dantalion@fosstodon.org]

@Silberwoelfin @GrahamDowns @someone_else @dan I micro my crappy dishwasher and washer daily because eclectricity is substantially cheaper starting 23:00 and its honestly a pita to stay awake till 23:00 everyday I have to turn one of these on.

I sure wish they had Bluetooth or somecrap but I agree I rather have nothing then cloud somethibg compared to local.

[longplay_games@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@CppGuy @jernej__s @someone_else @dan Interesting to know Bosch has gone down that drain.

I feel better about skipping them for my most recent purchase (though I chose to do so because the parts were too pricey here)

[wokstation@universeodon.com]

@dan "medieval dynasty", a game, has an npc farmer complaining;
"I need to grow cabbages, so i can make fertiliser, to grow more cabbages, to make more fertiliser. *sighs*"
This reminds me of that.

[grahamdowns@mastodon.africa]

@dantalion @Silberwoelfin @someone_else @dan we don't have cheap power during particular hours; our price is the same regardless. We do have solar, though, as I said, so we try to run the heavy appliances only when the sun is shining.

The things we do to save money, eh? *sigh*

[toranpetto@troet.cafe]

@dan

When reading all this I am considering to scan the local ads and look for a second piece of my 10 y old dishwasher which communicates only via a few LED and store it in the basement as backup.

[dusk@todon.eu]

@someone_else @dan

Related:

https://todon.eu/@dusk/115245498112799116