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It’s a big rabbit hole for sure, with how many household devices are internet connected and the concerning capabilities they offer. And an expensive one if you seek to replace devices at home.

I don’t know. Is it internet connected? If so I wouldn’t trust it…

Many home grade routers allow you to set up a guest WiFi network though so you may be able to isolate it that way if you’re concerned/can determine what telemetry it’s sending from the privacy policy or other reports.

This article talks about their website’s standard creepy tracking cookies and stuff, which depressingly everyone does. https://blog.avast.com/what-peloton-knows-about-you-avast

But if it has Bluetooth and WiFi it has a lot of potential for tracking all sorts of things. I don’t have one and don’t know if they’re using that potential, but it’s there. It would be interesting to investigate.

You could configure different settings, such as preventing the device from connecting to ad servers. You also prevent it from scanning your network to learn about all your devices, since all it would be limited to that isolated network.

They are already making AI-specific cards / devices, since the technical requirements are fairly different from consumer GPUs. The thing is, the silicon is made in the same fab, with a limited capacity. So manufacturers are shifting production from consumer devices to far more profitable enterprise customers. The cost won’t come down because the underlying resource (fab capacity) is now “worth more” and consumer supply is lessened.

thank goodness large quantities of RAM are cheap and plentiful!

There was an article here about one of the companies doing this, basically one of the methods is having apps on people’s smart TVs or phones that scrape the web in the background and upload to a control server. So it’s a person’s genuine device in a genuine residence in some cases.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/free-apps-are-quietly-turning-smart-tvs.html