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Walked to purchase washer and dryer. First thing I say is I want it delivered and installed.

Should be easy , right ? Nope , after 45 agonizing minutes , multiple calls for manager , etc
finally all set . Nope , I see it says outside delivery. I said , " I wanted that inside delivery installed " First thing I said.

She's explaining why it won't let her do that. I said , thanks for wasting 45 minutes of my time for nothing , and told her to cancel my order.

Walked to purchase washer and dryer. First thing I say is I want it delivered and installed. Should be easy , right ? Nope , after 45 agonizing minutes , multiple calls for manager , etc finally all set . Nope , I see it says outside delivery. I said , " I wanted that inside delivery installed " First thing I said. She's explaining why it won't let her do that. I said , thanks for wasting 45 minutes of my time for nothing , and told her to cancel my order.

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[–] • 4 pts

Facts! Bought my washer from a repair guy. He delivered it and hooked it up. Tested it all. $150.

That was 7 years ago. Thing is a beast.

Dryer is newer and fancier but I needed a new one and snagged a deal from an estate sale.

[–] • 3 pts

I'm sure future smart (snitch) power meters will be able to detect when you have such devices running (by their power signature), and fine you automatically.

[–] • 0 pt

Just add a ‘smartifier’ between the plug and outlet.

[–] • 0 pt

Definitely there would/will be such devices, though illegal of course. They might have some capacitors or inductors to shift the motor's power factor to 1.0 so it doesn't give itself away.

[–] • 0 pt

That’s a dark thought.

[–] • 0 pt

Its already possible. Just not implemented (yet) on a large scale. You would be surprised how easy it is to figure out what devices are running in a house if you can simply just monitor the ground line. There was a interesting paper about a decade ago on how you could tell what was being typed on a computer by monitoring the ground line. I think this was just for PS2 based devices, not the now-norm USB devices.