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Smart home (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 37 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Your entire house is smart hackable and tracks your every step for advertising revenue of big companies.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My smart home is Home Assistant hosted on a server in my house. It's fully open source and has gone through multiple paid audits to show its security is good too. The only non-local-only integrations are the weather api's and my thermostat (ecobee).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I mean yeah, it's possible to set it up privacy-respecting and that's great. But the average tech enthusiast doesn't set up his own server beyound a NAS.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Heh, I'd argue the average tech enthusiast is exactly the person that would set this up. If not them, then who is homeassistant for? I think modern tech enthusiasts are privacy conscious and will put in the small effort to enjoy that privacy. Its non-techies who wouldnt bother and just use the app it comes with.

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  • [+] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    At first, a lot. Not so much recently though. It's definitely more work though I'll admit. Sometimes that's the price to pay for privacy. Also, I learn a lot of skills that could help me get a good paying job by doing it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    THIS

    I work with tech; other than in my home office; there is no tech in my house.

    The voice activated things.....just no. I looked into Mycroft, which looks interesting, but is till a solution looking for a problem.

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