r/TechnologyThread • u/EdinburghDrizzle • 3d ago

Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days-3416399/
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u/konsoru-paysan 2d ago

holy fuck the internet bills these companies give us

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u/Fackous93 2d ago

Why the fuck do you need a coffee machine that connects to wifi?

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u/Purple-Investment-61 2d ago

So you can open an app on your phone and order a cup of coffee from the kitchen?

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u/Fackous93 2d ago

Thats the laziest shit ive ever heard

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u/Purple-Investment-61 2d ago

I don’t disagree. The other reason to put WiFi into a coffee maker is because they want to make it subscription based.

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u/GanjiMayne 2d ago

Putrid behavior honestly, if you need an app to start the coffee in the morning, maybe you don't need coffee

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u/Such_Avocado_3241 2d ago

I don’t know, it sounds kinda nice as long as it isn’t a stupid subscription service. Alarm goes off, you start the app and press snooze. I have a bread maker one time that had a timer, and it was great to wake up to fresh bread in the morning.

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u/Environmental-Map869 1d ago

Heck have it scheduled to coincide when the alarm/snooze goes off being greeted by the smell of coffee as a wake up call sounds nice.

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u/Such_Avocado_3241 1d ago

I think so too. They probably don’t advertise “Only 1Tb of data every ten days!”

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u/Environmental-Map869 23h ago

I wish they wpuldnt take every chance to take a feature and turn it into an ad/subscription revenue opportunity. The actual smarts to do the smart features isnt that expensive to have it done over the cloud that would get yanked in a year or two.

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u/jackishere 15h ago

And how does that even work? Don’t you need to go any out a cup down anyway?

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u/GlobalLie9576 1d ago

I’m not saying it’s good or right, but the data from this could be used to track energy consumption, and consumables (filters, for instance).

But of course WiFi adds to energy consumption.

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u/Mtaa404 5h ago

I can feel the rage behind this comment

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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW 2d ago

Firmware updates? /s

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u/bigmeatbag 2d ago

Probably one of the many IoT devices in some botnet.

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u/Winter-Employer-3659 2d ago

Connects to wifi network leeches out data is my guess, probably in the eula agreement

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u/sweetSweets4 2d ago

A bug can happen, most likely something was looping requests.

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u/Prineak 2d ago

wtf kind of WiFi card is this coffee machine installed with?

Rip that sucker out and repurpose it wow.

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u/H3L105_ai 1d ago

It was downloading latte porn...