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[-] sramder@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For now, it looks like the favored answer to the data mystery is to blame Asus for misreporting it. We may never know what happened with Johnie, who is now running his LG washing machine offline.

Another relatively innocent reason for the supposed high volume of uploads could be an error in the Asus router firmware. In a follow-up post a day after his initial Tweet, Johnie noted “inaccuracy in the ASUS router tool.” Other LG smart washing machine users showed device data use from their apps. It turns out that these appliances more typically use less than 1MB per day.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

1 MB per day is more than enough to phone home.

The title seems like clickbait tho.

[-] sramder@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yes. Also yes.

I remember when Tom’s hardware was one German dentist and washing machines were to primitive to pick up a phone… you’d think they’d have done something cool by now like make them fold our clothes for us. The future is lame.

this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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