I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud

Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud by smolder on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:11AM (#43469621)

How about a wifi feature that is useful on a LAN and doesn't need 'the cloud'? The annoying part of wifi appliances is that network connectivity almost always means phoning home to some server on WAN. Home routers or a separate box on LAN ought to have functionality to be the bridge between appliances and client devices instead. That's a standard I'd rather see.

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Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud by sofixa on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:20AM (#43469658)

Because most people don't have anything on the LAN that can integrate with the appliance, and with just a phone app and the appliance, you're limited in computing power, background activity and storage (you can't store all usage data on the machine itself, and you can't rely on the phone always being on the same wifi to collect the data and store it).

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Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud by Gibbon1 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:34AM (#43469712)

"you can't store all usage data on the machine itself"

I can buy 128M flash for $2/10k

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Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud by sofixa on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:20AM (#43469935)

Flash that will survive the heat and humidity of a washing machine for a decade?

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Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud by stoobs on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @08:05AM (#43470230)

Place in the correct location and pot it correctly (conformal coating) and it won't be an issue.

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Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud by bgnn on Sunday April 06, 2025 @06:32PM (#43605532)

I'm pretty sure most app support will be dropped before that.

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