A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.

  • algorithmae@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    This is the reason my house has:

    • mechanical locks
    • mechanical windows
    • routers using OpenWRT
    • no smart home crap
    • no Alexa/Google Assistant/…
    • no internet connected thermostats
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      1 year ago

      Fwiw, I think using a self hosted home automation setup (shout out to home assistant) paired with smart devices that don’t use internet (e.g. zigbee, zwave, or matter once it comes out) can allow you to have a smart home without these kinds of fears.

      That said, I would definitely agree to using mechanical locks. Although a monitored smart security system is probably still a good idea - you’re letting a company virtually enter your house, but you can’t rely on a self hosted solution to notify you when your power goes out, for example.

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        1 year ago

        This, I have plenty of smart home stuff all run locally, and every external call is something I can control and disable. Having a smart home isn’t inherently the problem; outsourcing all the computation to cloud servers run by unaccountable corporations is the problem

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        My experience from watching lockpicking lawyer is that locks are just social niceties that tell others ‘please don’t go here’ and have no real ability to stop anyone who doesn’t care. Other than the owner who gets locked out by forgetting their own key of course.

      • jamiehs@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Unless I’m mistaken, don’t HomeKit compatible devices need to be local-first too? I remember reading that if I switch my Ecobee thermostat to HomeKit (via HomeAssistant’s bridge), it will use local control instead. It’s on my todo list but I just haven’t done it yet.

        I think this thread about Ecobee and HomeKit was where I started…