I guarantee you dont need 95% of "smart" (I fucking hate that term) devices.

Its wasteful, anti security, and gives corporations more control than they should ever have.

The sole reason they exist is because we peaked in the ways corporations can make money. You CANT make a good washing machine that lasts and does it's job in capitalist society. It must make quarterly profits either by being un repairable and forcing the owner to buy another, or harvesting data, or forcing subscriptions for shit the device already has built in.

Smart bullshit is just the 2010 version of shoving ai slop unto every possible thing that doesn't need it. No difference.