Instead, I got an equivalently priced KitchenAid KDFM404KPS1 and am quite happy with it, with only minor quibbles. One of the wheels on the bottom rack is attached to a movable row of prongs, and if you push the row too hard in the wrong direction, you can knock the wheel off. You can just pop the wheel back on, but it's an occasional mild annoyance. Aside from that, I have no complaints.
In other words, I don’t think Bosch is any better in the “minor quibble” department.
Echo devices serve as internet-to-sidewalk bridges by default so it's pretty extensive, Amazon claims >90% of the US population is covered.
That’s why regulating some base standards and labelling is essential.
There might be one from some random hotel lobby nearby or neighbor with a Windows Vista PC, but that's the exception nowadays, not the rule.
So far, a single client has connected in 4 years and I can’t remember if that was me or not.
How long before they offer that as a service to 3rd parties like Bosch or LG?
An appliance wouldn't be able to use that, of course.
The poster disabled WiFi on the TV and didn't add it to their own network. The TV kept complaining and re-enabling the wireless interface and eventually latched on to a neighbour's unsecured guest hotspot...
All economic incentives encourage maximum invasion of user privacy. That's almost universally true in my experience.
For now, I agree with the GP that:
> There are nowhere near enough knowledgeable people who will balk at this stuff.
The only buttons I press though are power and start. Just make my dishes clean oh magic cleaning box.
I also hate the touch buttons too. My favorites were the old washers with the big clicking square block buttons. I also like for the modes when you pushed one down, the others would pop up.
Of course this was about 40 years ago, and such things are ancient history.
ed: err, I guess under a different FTC, I guess