I've never seen a washer with a hot water connection, the washer heats the water itself to the actual temperature you set. Is that a Europe<>US thing?
It is. There's no heating coil in the US machines and what they'll do to actually get things clean is mostly bleach it. Like, EU machines have a 200 degrees F hot cycle to actually disinfect pieces like bedding and sheets. No way the hot water connection can provides 200 F water so bleach is the solution.
Regarding the heated towel rail. We have those in our bathrooms and they just replace the normal radiators you'd otherwise have on the walls. Essentially there's underfloor heating pipes branching off to the towel rails. In there flows regular hot water in a closed loop heating the house and the towels.
And the thing that no one yet mentioned, even if everyone moves from Console to PC Microsoft still wins. Because who's gaming on Mac or Linux. Valve tried the push and so far I'm utterly disappointed by developer support. Sure there's tons of indie titles and the (very) occasional AAA.
Let's hope that Vulkan and native Linux support in all the major game engines will change that over the coming years. But as of right now Windows is where it's at.
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