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"Smart" devices have turned me 180 degees from a tech enthusiast to quasi-Luddite.
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Or that exist solely to sell the data it collects about you. Living in the panopticon sucks.
Also, they push smart devices to sell you a subscription so that their revenue stream is unending. Eightsleep's mattresses fall in this category IMHO. Also, remember Juicero?
Yep, so many things these days a very clearly a minimum viable product - it just barely does something, just enough that some will buy it, but the company is clearly just trying to steal yr dataz.
Smart devices that do not do that would be nice. Like I want a device that I can control through my network, not one that tells the company all my usage of it, or well anything it's not what I purchased it for.
I should check into devices that don't need an external connection, not overly difficult to set up a secondary network that won't go outside, once I remember how to do that anyways.
There's a whole world under HomeAssistant that you're gonna love. You can even repurpose the stuff currently connected to the clowd via data umbilical, and make them into internal-only devices.
Hah I may have read home assistant as a description not realizing it's software for this stuff and not say Amazon's brand of ... Well whatever data collection. I will definitely be checking it out. Seems like what I'm looking for. To be fair I haven't looked into it much yet but may have overlooked it if I didn't read this.
As much as I try to keep up with stuff it's so easy to pass by software these days. I used to read everything back in the 90s / early 2000s, these days not as often.
I appreciate the point to the right direction immensely.