It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
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very good info! and not to also preach to choir but Amazon Ring cameras and probably other camera doorbells can and will give any of the footage to law enforcement without a warrant. there was actually a big push these last few years by LEO to get people to buy these so they can access footage from them with or without your consent. just by owning one you've waived your rights apparently lmao https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/07/ring-reveals-they-give-videos-police-without-user-consent-or-warrant
of course if you setup a pi-hole you can avoid this while still enjoying the luxury of camera doorbells but i'd imagine most people who even have the knowledge of pi-hole would know that already. When I was delivering for doodash for awhile I was actually surprised just how many people have, it was way more popular than I would have imagined, but I'm also in the bay area so stuff like this is definitely skewed a bit i think
Please DM me when this happens.
The next time I'm not deeply underwater on my mortgage and going rice-and-beans-vegan out of necessity, I'd like to smart up my house to potentially save some energy over the long haul. (read: never, LOL, home ownership is just outsourcing your landlord to Jamie Dimon's thugs.)
Home assistant is absolutely necessary for anyone wanting to get the promise of smart home tech out of their devices. No company's "ecosystem" lets you set up the same level of complex interdevice smarts that home assistant does.
Second this! The solution here is to eschew alienation and seize the means of home automation. You can also get a zigbee/zwave dongle and be able to use that whole other family of iot products too!