I hate that everything now is a subscription service instead of buying it and do whatever you want.

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    1 year ago

    There are cases for it, eg programming a wash to occur when energy demand is low.

    In my opinion we should be pursuing technologies to do this that don’t require an internet connection. Even being able to program a schedule into the machine and it can detect if something is in there or not. That would be enough since energy usage follows a relatively consistent plot. These companies don’t give a shit about anything other than coming up with ways to make more money.

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      1 year ago

      The cost of the laundry subscription is likely to vastly out cost the energy savings it may provide.

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        1 year ago

        Ya it’s a shit idea to go subscription in any situation. You really do not need any kind of ongoing updates/subscription unless the product was built around a subscription model. If it can done mechanically on basic programmable outlets then it can be coded the same way. I would be fine buying a laundry machine, asking my utilities provider what time to run it, and then programming that into the machine manually.