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1 year agoI think it’s for “smart” washing machines that you can control from your phone etc. So that’s likely what the “updates” would be related too…why you’d need to control your washing machine from afar is beyond me but some people love smart gadgets and will by anything that connects to their phone.
Starship troopers has a line in it that the crusades were created by population pressure (primarily young men being denied a good chance at a future).