Pfft, most of my home is smart, but because I'm actually an IT professional none of my smart devices are allowed to call home unless I explicitly allow them to (for firmware updates). The only thing they're allowed to talk to is my homeassistant server.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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This meme is always dumb when it comes around, many of us with skills can pull off a smart home without resorting to "the cloud(s)" even if it means building our own IoT devices.
Do I trust Ring? Fuck no! Do I trust the camera doorbell I built and wrote the code with my own 2 hands and knows what it's doing with every byte of data? Tentatively.
I'm taking things a step further and building a HAL9000 system for my house. This time with 15% less mental illness.
LMAO same, just picked up dual 3090s for a good deal for my AI smart home ambitions
Though, I'm calling it XANA...I'm sure nothing will go wrong with our chosen system names haha
Whatever you say Waldo Schaeffer
I have a tech enthusiast friend who has his whole house hooked up to be smart. His lights somehow connect to the Internet.
Mechanical Windows? I still have Windows 11. How do I upgrade to mechanical Windows?
Same reason why mechanics drive 25 year old crap cans
I used to be a tech enthusiast. Used to.
Now if I didn't personally audit the hardware I don't want it on my fucking network. My smartphone, which I only use mobile data on and have the wifi disabled because reasons, is the only smart device I own connected to the internet. I also have 2 roku TVs but they're offline (whytf does my TV need internet, it's literally a monitor for my htpc).
IOT is not bad when you selfhost and manage all the data thats being scraped yourself. But like, fuck corporate IoT stuff