Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day

• exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly my thought hahaha my house is normal size and I can hear that sucker beeping anywhere

  Now, all joking aside, what’s the big advanta of knowing exactly when the cycle finishes? I get that it may vary because of the new sensor driven cycles but still… Unless you are running a laundromat and every second of machine use counts, I can ballpark it just fine

  source

  • thirteene@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ADHD, OCD and other neuro atypicals often need reminders or an action item that needs to be cleared. The features can be used by an infinite set of one offs, starting a load remotely before driving home from work, sometimes you are just under a time crunch. The burden of responsibility here is product enshitification not making us fear features, not someone wanting to utilize a feature rich product.

    source

    • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank for the reply… I do get that accessibility part for anyone with any disability…however, any device that requires manual interaction, benefits little from remote starting … why would you put in a load but start it 8 hours later?

      In any case, 100% in agreement that the fault lies with the vendors enshitification and not the product or feature … Same with the home assistant, AI, gene mapping (23&me stuff), etc

      source
  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can hear that sucker beeping anywhere

    You can make them quieter or even silent these days with the “signal cycle” or similar setting, a legitimate thing I want to do but mine don’t tell me when they’re done so I leave them loud.

    what’s the big advanta of knowing exactly when the cycle finishes?

    Even when on my Adderall I forget I set it all the time and wind up with smelly wet clothes too often. Also would be nice to get an alert if my wife set it without telling me, then I can easily swap it out if I’m not doing anything and she is.

    I want a washer/dryer with these features now goddamnit

    source

    • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes we could make them quieter… But she who rules the laundry room won’t allow it

      source
  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate laundry so try not to do it before I have to. However, especially with a family, that means I need to get through too many loads in one day. It wastes less of my time if I can feed them all through sequentially. Then when my minions are home from school I can make them cry at all the baskets of laundry to fold

    source

    • exanime@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wife? What are you doing here?

      Lol this is exactly my wife’s style… When we divided the chores long ago she picked laundry and seems to have learned to hate it … Always seems to make it worst by leaving it all for last minute

      Kids are teens now so they do their own… There is a future ;-)

      source

      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha, no …

        Similar boat here. When we picked chores long ago, wife picked laundry.

        … Later on she complained about carrying baskets up and down the stairs, so I did that for her.

        … Still later she complained about how she could never get them all done, so I started running them through the machines for her: I know how to use a timer.

        … then she complained about how long it took to fold, so the minions fold their own and I fold sheets and towels as well as my own

        … then when we got divorced, she was still complaining about how much of a hassle laundry was

        Now the minions are teens and I made sure they knew how to run the machines, but it more efficient for me to run everything through

        source