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[WSJ:PAID] It's Finally Time to Add Some Smart Tech to Your Dumb Home (www.wsj.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they open their APIs so I can coordinate different brands without downloading a bazillion different apps and as long as I can do it without my data leaving the house, I'll think about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No. How bout we compromise and make it all cloud based, charge a subscription, then shut the servers down in a couple years with no warning. Does that work for you?

[–] GregorGizeh 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No thanks. I have a pc and a smartphone, that’s plenty of smarts for my home appliances.

I might reconsider in the future once there are open source, privacy friendly options available that give full control to the user. I want "dumb" smart devices that don’t call home for every task and have enough processing power on their own without a corpo server farm.