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"Smart" devices have turned me 180 degees from a tech enthusiast to quasi-Luddite.
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The only smart thing I ever bought was one of those newfangled smart light bulbs. It was such a pain in the ass to set up and it wouldn't synchronize with my smartphone, and it never did work, so I gave up and returned it to the store. That was the beginning & end of my venture into smart technology.
The killer feature of those bulbs is that you can both dim them and change the colour temperature as desired.
My office has one of those bulbs, and it will change based on the time of day (and what my desktop thinks is a good colour).
the IKEA ones are fine in my experience, critically you can use them without any sort of internet connection. It's not perfect (i've had some issues with the switches disconnecting) but it largely works fine for just having a fancy bulb you can control wirelessly and change the colour of.
That was programmers in the early 00's. Outside of open source programmers, they're mostly tech/crypto-brogrammers now. Cloud connected "Smart"-everything at home, doesn't know how to host anything, no hardware experience, doesn't want to learn anything that isn't the "hot new thing" that will lead to a higher salary, all in on AI, latest iPhone.