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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)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So much for my fibre connection...

[–] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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