• SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      I wish.

      My father currently works in IT and has “smart” everything (except locks, thankfully)

      He has multiple Alexa thingies (used to be Google homes), Internet thermostat, smart light switches, smart cameras/doorbells, smart plugs

      Idk why he does. The only thing that really provide any value are the light switches and plugs (scheduled lighting) and maybe the doorbell thingies

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      1 month ago

      JFC, that white text is me to a T.

      And my printer is a 1998 HP 4050DTN that could probably survive the apocalypse in fair shape.

      Even my planned CCTV system will be completely hardlined with shielded cables, technically airgapped, E2E encrypted between the cameras and the server, and with a mechanically-driven RJ45 connector that will allow one-way backups to BackBlaze once a week through a specially configured Bastille server.

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        Same here. The only part that doesn’t fit me is the Bluetooth - there are much better protocols for that.