• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        21 days ago

        Pihole+firebog is my current solution and everything is behind that. The Echos get bounced by it a tonne.

        I thought about building a IOT Vlan but I have one smart TV and one firestick and that’s all it would be for. Then I’d have to manually update the jellyfin so it doesn’t seem quite so pressing.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Wouldn’t that be hilarious if an appliance manufacturer started bitcoin mining using decentralized appliances because… They could? They’d never do that though. Only some greedy, lowdown, crappy corporation could do that.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      21 days ago

      Actually not a bad idea. Design an ASIC that runs real hot, use that to heat a dryer drum instead of a heating element. Most dryer plugs can offer 5kw of power…

      That’s how I used to heat my bedroom in the Athlon XP era. It was always quite cozy in the wintertime.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      On the flip side. Power consumption of the device would spike for that model/brand so it’d be found out…

      Unless they waited until four months of use and then flipped it on. Not many home users would test the energy usage of thier appliances and no official tests would run for four months.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Apt complex chose these as the ovens.

      When you look at wifi signals all you see is a field of LG OVEN LG OVEN LG OVEN LG OVEN

      It’s for elderly too so no one has ever even used this superfluous feature.

      Like you still have to get up to switch over the laundry what is even the point

      • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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        21 days ago

        If I were living in that apartment complex I’m going door to door and disabling the WiFi on every oven.

      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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        21 days ago

        If you wanna know why you’d want it connected: notifications for status as well as simple diagnostics, a manual, a self hosted maintenance record, etc etc.

        The reason they’re actually connected is for sales metrics.

      • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        I have an all in one washer/dryer from LG. It’s handy to know that the laundry is finished so you can go start another load or if it errored out while you were not in earshot from being unbalanced you can go fix it. Since the all in ones take about 7 hours for a load you need to be ready to swap.

        For the oven it was super handy with young kids to know someone turned on the stove. You can also check a cook timer from afar.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Market research indicates people wish to monitor their laundry cycles remotely, be alerted via notification when a cycle has completed, and schedule remote starting of cycles in exchange for all the data the machine can scrape from their local home network because they don’t understand why that is not desirable or that it is happening because companies bury their declarations of intent within a long legal document with tiny text that users avow to have read by clicking “accept” or “ok”.

  • woop_woop@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    … because you connected it to the internet. Don’t do it if you don’t want it to happen bud.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Sending back details of your wash load, e.g. color and materials of your undies to LG headquarters so that their specialized AIs running on 64k core rtz6980s can analyze and optimize the wash cycles and delivery time of the bleach and softener based on training data garnered from millions of similar households for the perfect outcome each time, every time no doubt. These blockchains don’t exactly build themselves, you know.