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Unrealistic. Not everyone is technically savvy enough to download firmware updates from a website just to put on a USB stick. It’s intimidating to users and takes too many steps thus making it an inconvenience to the customer. Users much rather just call up a number and have a tech fix it remotely.

Additionally, it takes time for firmware updates that contains fixes to get uploaded to a website, so it would really piss users off to have an inop device in the meantime. Much easier and faster to call up a tech and have them fix it remotely.

Also, USB sticks would require the user to get to a computer, which they may not have, and the manufacturer would have to install a USB port on the device itself. I see your point from a security standpoint, but I can’t see a manufacturer spending more on a slower, user-error prone, and in many ways outdated, tech just for the sake of security and privacy

Firmware updates. It runs on software that requires routine maintenance if you want it to do all the fancy stuff and needs updates, to keep up with security protocols and fix bugs remotely. That requires internet access.

This has been known for years ever since somebody stumbled upon pics of their home being sent back to the manufacturer. So anyone who doesn’t know by now just hasn’t been keeping up with the news.

An instance years ago of iRobot smart vacs that took pics of a woman on her toilet, among other pics and they ended up on forums and social media. Unfortunately, all smart devices communicate with their manufacturers on the cloud, which employees can get access to, so until all companies are forced to end-to-end encrypt all their data, we take a huge risk in trusting these employees to keep it safe. You’re always taking a chance.
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

You don’t know me so stop pretending like you do

Some people need to know when to fold em and just sit the conversation out

I live in one of the most poorest neighborhoods in the United States, in the projects and on SNAP and other government assistance, and I used to be homeless living on the street and shelters, so I don’t need any lecture about not understanding how “poverty works”. There are different levels of poverty. Just because we live in poverty, is no excuse to still be careless with the little money we have. Be careless and pay the consequences. Be in dire straits, and pay the consequences. They’re called survival tips and being street smart and I’ve gotten them regularly from homeless people, drug addicts, prostitutes and other people who live in poverty that I’ve met in my life. We can’t do nothing about what the cronies in the government do, so sitting around crying about what they’re doing is pointless. We have to watch our own backs and be smart with what we have.

P.S. It is possible to pull oneself up out of poverty by the bootstraps because I know people who have and I also know people who were up, fall down into poverty. One can even dig themselves so deep into bad choices, that it’s impossible to dig oneself out of it. Hell, there’s a celebrity who lives in my building who’s living in the projects just like me. It’s a two-way street affected by life choices, education, financial literacy, health quality, environment, and other factors too broad to cover here. Being in poverty doesn’t relegate one to always staying in poverty.

And this is why you can’t rely on anyone to feed you. Also why you shouldn’t max out your SNAP balance. Always keep a 1-2 month buffer saved up when the government decides to wear diapers rather than acting like grown ups with people on their watch like this

What’s posted to the internet, STAYS on the internet. Forever. Stay safe friens