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		TheOtherHobbes on April 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time wit... Can we at least consider that the solution to poorly designed technology is not more poorly designed technology? If users can't set up routers and extenders properly, that may say more about the designers of the routers than the people using them. I'm nominally an expert user, but a lot of these products make me WTAF regularly.

Schnitz on April 12, 2023 [–]

We can consider it, but Miele won’t. Their problem is connecting your washer to your phone and going through the cloud has other side benefits for them as well, such as telemetry, so here we are and will be.

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