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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)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So much for my fibre connection...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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