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Software developer. Having my home constantly phoning home to megacorporations sounds creepy, but more importantly, none of these smart home products solve a problem. They just add additional points of failure to appliances that have historically been sufficiently reliable.
Software developer. The frequency of stupid features that PMs request, followed by our urgency to implement it as fast as possible has opened up so many bugs and issues. Knowing that, why the hell would I want to open up potential failure to things I expect to work 100% of the time, like a toaster?
Software programmer. I have a Google Home running because I'm lazy af and like to be able to verbally turn on/off lights. I also use it to combat ADHD symptoms because saying "set an alarm" is less likely to distract me from what I'm doing than pulling out my phone is.
Indeed. Like what is fridge? Motor with piston in a puddle of oil and a thermostat. Why the fuck it needs any corpo bullshit?
Smart lights solve a problem. I have LEDs with programmable scenes that I can swap to easily. I don’t have white light constantly on all times of the day.
"Alexa! Switch to lighting configuration 'McLuvin'".
Hey Google, it's sexy time
Even better, have them on a timer and geofence like I do. When dusk falls, the lights turn on. When the last person leaves, all off. At 1am, all turn off except driveway lights. At dawn, all turn off. I never even interact with my lights anymore because they are automatic.
I could, but I don’t operate within a time window. I like having my colored lights on when I’m gaming, but white when I’m working or cleaning, which could be after 5.
I could geofence them, but it’s difficult with a wife when we have different schedules. Don’t wanna be changing each other’s lights. Haha
I was more being rhetorical and speaking to how my lights are set up :)