I have a tech enthusiast friend who has his whole house hooked up to be smart. His lights somehow connect to the Internet.
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
Amazon’s alexa smart speakers had a bug a while ago where it would spit out everything it heard, even stuff you didn’t say to it.
Fuck corporate IoT indeed.
Bug when discussed with the government, feature when discussed with executives.
HomeAssistant, all IoT devices are on a VLAN that can only talk to HomeAssistant…HomeAssistant server only accessible via LAN or through WireGuard to my VPS (which WireGuard’s to my router, which connects to my HA server).
Not perfect, not invulnerable, but it also only controls lights and harmless switches.
Mechanical Windows? I still have Windows 11. How do I upgrade to mechanical Windows?
Same reason why mechanics drive 25 year old crap cans
