Real talk: nobody should use these things. Not Google's, not Amazon's, not Apple's... They are all capable of spying on you, and also being compromised by hackers.
Yeah, there was a lot of pain and learning involved but you know what: I can do that, and not having Megacorp listening devices at home was the hill I decided to spend some time on.
Happy to hear that matey. I died on that hill trying to achieve the same thing.
Either way I simply don't use any assistance so no need to go for tradeoffs
Happy to hear that matey. I died on that hill trying to achieve the same thing.
Either way I simply don't use any assistance so no need to go for tradeoffs
Yeah, I had a financial incentive to be honest, because HA optimizes my energy usage by regulating the heat pump, the car chargers, sun heat influx with the shutters etc. to get the most out of my solar electric panels, solar thermal panels, home batteries and dynamic energy pricing. Everything I did regarding it pays off, the rest, like, lights folliwing me across the garden etc. are just a neat thing that fell out of the entire project basically for free.
It definitely has a learning curve but as someone who is much more hands on with very little programming experience, I actually found it pretty intuitive. And frankly for the things that aren't super intuitive, there's a community support thread for basically anything you could want to do.
Never thought I would have one, but homeassistant made it easy enough for me to program my own wall mounted control panel, that it just made sense.
Every time I see this comment I make the point that, from a privacy perspective, they are likely better than average consumer, non-rooted, non-linux* phones, laptops, desktops.
They give back one geographic position - your house, and you don't give them credit card, social security, Healthcare or other personal information like you frequently use your phone and computer for.
You don't even use them to search for porn (cue one guy saying he does)
please feel free to bicker about what counts as a "Linux phone" but I won't join in.
I used to be one of those uneducated tech enthusiasts that wanted IOT for everything. Now that has been unplugged for about a year and I find no discernible difference in ease of daily tasks.
That did happen from time to time though. Ghosts can communicate with me in the inconsistent and short videos I record like all the others.
They are in truth one of the dumbest creatures on the planet.
I once successfully slowed down just in time for one to make it across the road, just for it to immediately turn around and dart under my tires once I started speeding back up.
Australian possums are scarier than what ever these things are, the fuckers sound like demons outside your window and wake you in the middle of the night
Yeah, apparently marsupials first arose in North America and then migrated by some mechanism to Australia. Placental mammals arrived or also arose on North America as well which is why our marsupials are so...just opossums. But there were no mammals on Australia so they spread to many niches.
Opossums
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