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I don't understand the craze of slapping wifi or bluetooth connectivity to everything without giving proper thought. Cameras, television, vehicles, coffee pots, medical devices, laundry machines, hipster juicers... what's next? Is my salt shaker going to have it?
Every washing machine I've owned for the last 30 years has had a delayed start function and I've never used it once, if that simple function is useless I donno what else a WiFi connection could offer
I had a WiFi enabled range and the only remotely useful thing it could do was send my phone a notification when the timer went off.
It could preheat the oven via the app too but I wasn't too keen on turning on my oven when I wasn't near it.