Real.
As a tech worker I do have smart stuff in my home, but it’s all self-hosted and under my complete control, with no dependency on cloud.
This. Exactly this. Home assistant all the way…
How is home assistant these days? I love the smart home aspect but last time I checked a year or so ago you still needed to tinker with it a lot to keep it running. Love it or hate it but alexa integration w/ hue has just worked. Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I’m off work
Working in IT the last thing I want to do is fiddle with tech when I’m off work.
That’s where I’m at. I just buy whatever cheap product works reliably enough for the application, link it to an isolated IoT VLAN where it can’t see anything but the internet, and then forget it exists on my network. It’s mostly because I’m lazy, though, and don’t want to give up the convenience of Google Home smart lighting shortcuts on my Pixel’s lock screen.
Exactly, alexa/google or whoever is financially incentivized to make sure their product continues to work.
Bob at home labs and his integration are just passion projects. For which I respect, but I don’t want to tinker with it when a new model of light comes out that breaks everything.
Just put everything on its own vlan and let it talk to other iot and the internet and that’s it. Sure they are scalping some data but that’s a price in willing to pay for the convenience
Safer to keep the gun out of the printer’s reach IMO
Tech enthusiast who works in tech here. I haven’t owned a printer for more than a decade.
I have an hp printer (I know) that is shoved in the corner of the spare bedroom. All alone, in the dark, so it can think about what it did.
I try not to e-waste so I’m waiting until it dies to replace it.
Once you’ve worked in the sausage factory and know exactly what goes into the sausages, you stop eating sausages.
As a tech worker, the only piece of technology I don’t have is a printer. Those things suck. I use the library’s if I need to print something.
didn’t we ban twitter posts yet?
I don’t know if you are smart enough to realize this - but this is a screenshot and not a link to twitter.
Twitter screenshots are harmless because no one can click them and give twitter traffic, which was the main point of the banning of their links
Besides, this was in 2019
it still advertises twitter and drives traffic to it, as one might be compelled to look up the original post and reply to it.
a simply solution is to crop out the twitter parts, or even better, just copy the text over instead of posting a picture of text
….
honestly posting pictures of text is so dumb it hurts me physically…I wrote an alt text, you can read that instead.
that doesn’t help
ok.
I really had this moment of clarity when I realized that my smartwatch was sending data to the manufacturer who was sending it to advertisers who are then selling it to health insurance agencies, which may affect me in ways I couldn’t imagine.
Now I’m more than happy just wearing a G-Shock every day.
Honestly waiting for the new Pebble stuff to come out.
