HomeAssistant for the win! Not everything needs to be connected but for those things I would like to control I want CONTROL. So only my server (not even the nubucasa servers) control it!
Big difference between “smart home stuff” and stuff compatible with home assistant. You host home assistant yourself on your own hardware and everything is connected in one interface. You only need one app, or one webpage. No shady actors get access to your home, you control everything.
Give it a few years and home assistant will have ai built in, mandatory telemetry, be coded with ai, and have a bunch of angry nerds arguing about every update and censoring everyone they disagree with.
Apache license, source on Github. If they piss off their users, someone will fork it.
Go touch some grass and smell some flowers. Spring is finally here
The number of appliances that have an app is fucking insane. I’m sorry, but I don’t need my oven to have internet connectivity. We got by just fine before.
Right? Why does my microwave want WiFi access? How bout no
That is what I thought (and still do, for the most part), but being at the grocery store and starting the oven preheat is pretty nice.
Don’t forget the gun by the printer, you know just in case.
Are you an idiot?
Never have a gun within reach of the printer. Do you want to die?
PC LOAD CHAMBER, fuck around and find out what that means
Do your printers have arms? I don’t understand.
You have far too much trust in your printer
When looking for a mimic, always shoot the printer first… Not because it’s the mimic, but because it deserves it.
I have some smart home stuff, but if it needs the Internet to function, it’s not going into my house. And if any of it fails, the house reverts to its old, dumb self.
A couple months ago, my dishwasher stopped working. When the tech showed up to look at it, he said it may need a software update. He then unscrewed the toe plate, plugged a wifi hotspot into the newly revealed network jack, and let the update happen.
I was shocked, and a little alarmed, that my dishwasher even had software to update. Its entire control panel is six buttons, some status LEDs and an LED timer.
Me too. And no Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO, … just good old Torrent.
The main benefit of sailing the high seas when I was younger was simply having access to things I couldn’t afford that helped make me more cultured. Now the main benefit is so I don’t financially contribute to shitstain corporations.
Building a cheap NAS with shucked drives running Plex on unraid was the best decision ever. I won’t lie it’s not cheaper than just paying for 1-2 subscriptions and I have spent time managing it but having agency over the content available is so nice and if I don’t have disposable income for a time I can just not add new drives
Better quality, don’t need 7 subscriptions to access all content, and don’t have to worry about things getting shelved. It’s funny because Netflix in like 2014 is why I stopped pirating but it was Netflix in 2019 that made me start pirating again. Spotify is getting real close to making me pirate music again too
IT professional here.
Yup.
Everything is hardwired with multiple layers of security. Everything even remotely personal is on encrypted hard drives. No Alexa/Google. Made sure the smart TV and smartphones (no Apple, vanilla Android) have all data sharing disabled. And I drive a 1999 vehicle that doesn’t make me jump through any hoops.
There’s a fine line between technology making things better and making things worse. We’re definitely starting to drift into the making things worse era.
Me too, brother.
And as someone who attended a lockpicking course back during university, the mechanical locks are not the DIY market crap.
I have a couple of online things that I find useful, but they have their own network
I have a Google doorbell camera connected to a guest network, and that is it.
