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Refrigerator ads are finally here! (discuss.online)

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[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not defending this practice because it's remarkably awful but I will note that I have a router that lets me monitor the traffic that individual devices use and most smart devices like this actually use incredibly small amounts of bandwidth. Our smart water tank uses ~10 MB a month which is smaller than most images.

And yes I do think a smart water tank is valid because it can do shit like tell me when it thinks it's about to explode or leak or whatever and it can also like, be remote controlled, and it has a heat pump which is nice.

[–] Osan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'm also not against automation or making machines "smart" it's just that what companies are marketing nowadays is just mostly overpriced shit.

And by consuming bandwidth I didn't mean for the indented usage I was mostly talking about the ads which will probably be filled with unnecessary metadata, trackers, unnecessarily large CSS files (if it was web based) and maybe high quality images. All of these things I find completely unnecessary.

Also coming from a computer engineering background if I was living in a "smart households" I would probably want to set up my own firewall. And like I said while I like the idea of home automation I don't want a corporation to be able to control or access my appliances too.

[–] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

I suppose I'd want to know if my fridge was about to explode... /s

In seriousness, though, you're right - the problem isn't with the technology, it's how the technology is used