I’ve had my washer and dryer for 9 years now. I bought slightly better models than the cheapest ones at Home Depot. The washer has a dial for mode, a dial for temperature, a dial for softener, a dial for extra rinse, and some buttons to start and stop it. The dryer has a dial for time, a dial for temperature, a dial for post-dry tumbling, a dial for buzzer volume, and a button to start it. No screens or displays or wifi or bluetooth. They clean and dry my clothes and nothing has ever gone wrong with them. I don’t know why in the world I would ever want ones with more technology in them.
Push notifications are nice. Especially when the washer is uneven. But especially nice just to get a notification when it’s done.
Maintenance reminders too.
Best is when you leave the house with a blanket and a hoodie in the dryer on “remote start” mode. Turn it on when your 10-15 minutes from home and have a hot blanket and hoodie to snuggle up in as soon as you walk in the door.
My washer tells me when it’s running an unbalanced load by making an extremely loud THUNK THUNK THUNK noise and dancing across the floor until it hits the wall.
See, the old washers are smart washers. They know they’re unbalanced, and they then bang to get your attention while running nervously around your utility room.
I low-key love the little 8-bit-sounding victory songs all the little machines play when they’re done. Makes me feel reminiscent of how I pictured the future when I was a kid… or maybe or beating a very old video game.
Thank you for trying so hard, little rice cooker!
But still, put all that shit on a different subnet or a different network if you can. I use the “guest wifi” network for all our iot devices so i can still access things from the apps when I’m not home, but it’s segregated from our actual internet devices.
I bought a house a few years back that came with a washer and dryer. Let’s just say they were “gently used” models from around or before 2008; practically time capsules. The dryer even still had the protective plastic peel on the console. What’s key is that not only were they practically new, but are just dumb, analog, electric appliances. No frills, no digital displays, no IoT, and possibly no micro-controllers of any kind.
These things have given me over eight years of maintenance-free service and now I dread ever having to replace them.
I’ve had my washer and dryer for 9 years now. I bought slightly better models than the cheapest ones at Home Depot. The washer has a dial for mode, a dial for temperature, a dial for softener, a dial for extra rinse, and some buttons to start and stop it. The dryer has a dial for time, a dial for temperature, a dial for post-dry tumbling, a dial for buzzer volume, and a button to start it. No screens or displays or wifi or bluetooth. They clean and dry my clothes and nothing has ever gone wrong with them. I don’t know why in the world I would ever want ones with more technology in them.
Push notifications are nice. Especially when the washer is uneven. But especially nice just to get a notification when it’s done.
Maintenance reminders too.
Best is when you leave the house with a blanket and a hoodie in the dryer on “remote start” mode. Turn it on when your 10-15 minutes from home and have a hot blanket and hoodie to snuggle up in as soon as you walk in the door.
My washer tells me when it’s running an unbalanced load by making an extremely loud THUNK THUNK THUNK noise and dancing across the floor until it hits the wall.
I don’t need no bluetooth.
See, the old washers are smart washers. They know they’re unbalanced, and they then bang to get your attention while running nervously around your utility room.
I low-key love the little 8-bit-sounding victory songs all the little machines play when they’re done. Makes me feel reminiscent of how I pictured the future when I was a kid… or maybe or beating a very old video game.
Thank you for trying so hard, little rice cooker!
But still, put all that shit on a different subnet or a different network if you can. I use the “guest wifi” network for all our iot devices so i can still access things from the apps when I’m not home, but it’s segregated from our actual internet devices.
So it’s a solution looking for a problem that has already been solved or isn’t much of a problem/is an edge case in the first place.
I bought a house a few years back that came with a washer and dryer. Let’s just say they were “gently used” models from around or before 2008; practically time capsules. The dryer even still had the protective plastic peel on the console. What’s key is that not only were they practically new, but are just dumb, analog, electric appliances. No frills, no digital displays, no IoT, and possibly no micro-controllers of any kind.
These things have given me over eight years of maintenance-free service and now I dread ever having to replace them.
The new one we got recently has a small display for custom presets and easier night scheduling which seems handy enough.