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Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

www.tomshardware.com

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Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic

www.tomshardware.com

Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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The owner was puzzled why a clothes washer would need so much data.
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    Yes, socks can turn into a lot of data really fast, especially if they are multithreaded. Which is why I only use single threaded socks to protect my dataplan.

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        This is the same reason why you dont feed farrets string (or thread, etc…) /s

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