Smart devices were supposed to make life better, but constant updates have made them worse
HomeAssistant…this is the way!
If I can’t run it with home assistant, I’m buying a dumb device instead.
Trying to buy an automated feeder for my cat was a nightmare. Why does everything have a camera and require an internet connection to China? Everything was on tuya! It’s fucking ridiculous. You don’t need cloud processing for this shit. Finding something that’s just a timer with a battery backup that wouldn’t fail to feed my cat if the power or internet briefly went out took way too much effort.
To me a smart device was supposed to be a normal device that you could control ‘smartly’ over wifi.
Mini SoCs with their own apps and an optional subscription built in for some proprietary shit? That goes past smart straight into dumpster trash.
I can’t buy into Smart Devices unless paying for the smartness lets me actually use it how I see fit.
So often there is little benefit except companies extract data from you, or to enforce some licensing or rent-seeking scheme. You’re just paying to get screwed over.
We replaced ours with a refurbished business desktop, installed Linux and Jellyfin then use with a wireless keyboard with built-in track pad
Plays media great, emulates up to Wii and can use for general web browsing too
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Oh no, if only those people that kept shouting at every opportunity how terrible these “smart” devices were had
been listened toshouted louder, maybe people would be aware. But alas,everyonenobody could’ve seen that coming, it’s truly a surprise.we are left with the remains of a dream unfulfilled and electronics that respond to the whims, fancies, and ever-changing business decisions of corporations
Reads straight out of !aboringdystopia
Use home assistant. Its not very difficult to setup on an old laptop or pi or whatever you have. Its agnostic to whatever system you have. Talks between networks.
Come join us at /homeassistant
You bought a device that grants corporations back door access and control over your leisure and now they’ve used that access to make the experience worse? Why is anyone surprised? I learned my lesson with the Kindle over a decade ago. Never made that mistake again.
Android police needs an editor. This guy out here casually throwing
spoiler
gimped
around in an article like it’s cool.
Okay I don’t love Lemmy’s implementation of spoiler tags.
