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Personally I try to avoid these connected appliances like the plague. That said, if today's dishwasher market is anything like that of TVs, it wouldn't be easy to find one that's up to spec that doesn't come with all this nonsense.

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It will only be a matter of time before there is zero selection. Because IoT is the hip thing, and only will be moreso. But the hacker community will eventually figure out ways of libre-izing these machines with custom firmware, when it becomes a big enough problem.

I am prepared for that. Dirty dishes go in the sink and two hands wash them and place them on a drying rack. Dirty clothes go into two buckets one with holes in it and a plunger washes the clothes using two hands. As a bonus I get exercise without a club membership. I know it isn't hip but it's retro and could make a come-back any day.

I try too but it's basically impossible. I was on the hunt for a dumb tv the other day only to realize that there is simply none on the market. Literally not a single one that's larger than 65" that I could find and for the few ones that do exist the panels are pretty bad.

Just a matter of time until happens to a lot of other appliances.

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