harry wrote
jim wrote

why TF would anyone want an Internet connected washing machine or oven?

A very bad idea to regularly run any electrical appliance unattended.

Even sillier than you usually manage.

You'd be up **** creek without a paddle if the world was
actually stupid enough to operate like that with mobile
bases, traffic lights, aircraft navigation systems, etc etc etc.

Especially these days of foreign crap catching fire.

Corse no locally made crap ever catches fire, eh ?