this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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Having a vacuum, or microwave, refrigerator, toaster, washing machine, blah blah blah connected to the internet is the dumbest thing you can do, Why are you giving corporate America access to your personal space? "Big Brother" is not who we should be worried about, it's corporations selling you in-home surveillance devices that pretend to do other tasks. This is literally how Humanity loses it's freedom and autonomy. Not to mention how easy it will be / is for psychopaths to stalk you.
I’m a huge fan of IoT, but requiring all this stuff to access internet is just so wild to me. It’s 2024, we all have a LAN* at this point (even though non-tech people think WiFi == internet).
I stupidly bought iRobot products and the app is such a glitchfest, it wants to talk to AWS’ shithole
us-east-1to do anything and of course the app is always telling me about “great deals” on newer products.* Careful when using an ISP-supplied router though, now your ISP wants access to your LAN for “totally innocent” reasons
At this point I use Home Assistant for everything IoT and won't buy any product I can't use LAN-only through HA.
The unfortunate exception to this rule is TVs. You can't even buy a "dumb" TV anymore. I put up with LGs after disabling every setting and data agreement I can for privacy's sake, but none of them are good.