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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The only reason I can think of is to be alerted when the thing is done, but our phones have this thing called a timer that can be set to the any amount of time and it'll count down to 0. It will even make noise when the timer gets to 0!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure they have, put down the bong and stop hallucinating. Phones counting, backwards even, and making noises lol sure thing, Cheech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I swear! My cousin's friend's brother has a girlfriend in another country and she showed them and my cousin posted it on tiktok and now he's an influencer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I love that my phone still can only do one timer. So if I need to keep track of two things I have to use my watch and my phone. Like a primitive savage