"How did humans get along for millennia without wifi-connected kitchen appliances?"

That's the question of the century.

The Internet of Things isn't benign.

1. Manufacturers aren't satisfied with making & selling just cars & appliances anymore.

It's an additional revenue stream from selling your privacy to 3rd parties, foreign & domestic.

2. It uses up internet & cellular bandwidth & electricity at a prodigious rate. Brownouts & blackouts get more frequent.

It's driving up utility rates everywhere.

That artificially inflated demand is misused as justification to thwart a fossil fuel...

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owning and driving a car was fun many years ago. but these days cars have full data collection something, therefore cars feels ichy and scary, basically not fun.

something needs to be done for this surveillance capitalism in cars.

excellent comic

i've definitely reached a point where i will do anything i can to avoid 'smart' appliances.
prolly gonna move toward actively destroying them within a few years 🤣

I have a Roomba app on my phone that tells me when my "dumb Roomba" got stuck.

Ideally I'd put that Roomba on its own vlan to separate it from the other networked devices, but I don't have the hardware or the skills to do that.

But what tradeoff am I making with the app? What data can it collect? How would I even know? Is it in the terms and conditions or is it secret data harvesting?