When your dishwasher has to connect to the cloud

Found this critique of the newer Bosch dishwashers:

I can relate. (I recently installed a Bosch dishwasher, replacing one that finally gave up after ~21 years.) And it bugs me. There have been too many instances of companies going out of business and their cloud-reliant “smart” devices becoming useless bricks. I want everything run locally. (I even hacked a smart plug to be just that.) At least there’s an open source implementation of the protocol. Have to look into that.

I also, for the record, do not want anything on my car to be enabled by subscription.

Just in general, I’m against having anything that has to “phone home” to be useful. I mean, I’ll use streaming services for light casual listening / watching, but anything I care about I obtain at least a non-DRM digital copy (and have backups). Because:

• Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold 
• “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
• ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services
• Logitech to shut down “service and support” for Harmony Link devices
• Amazon Pulled Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm
• Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs
• Belkin bricked its Wemo NetCam products with little notice in the middle of the pandemic
• Insteon and iHome
• ... And so many other examples.
  

(Some of these decisions were walked back, I think. The point is not necessarily that it actually happened, but rather that it was possible - that these devices and content were available and usable only at the pleasure of the corporate entities that collected money for them...)