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Quite literally a first world problem.

Dose anyone else just feel embarrassed reading articles like this (especially on the top of HN)? We really are having the best of times in 2023 when not able to changing the colors of light bulbs w/o logging in is a, seemingly, big deal. Or it really is just the end game before the collapse.

>>unpopu+(OP)
First it's about precedent. HTTP or something else using TCP/IP is eating the world and while reading that article I remembered that this blood pressure measurement device I bought with Bluetooth also forces me to login in the their shitty cloud to sync the data with their app. You're whole existence will look like that at this point I already gave up on the privacy aspect of it which is also not okay but that shit is just unusable, broken and won't work in 5 years.

Fucking planet is heating it's not okay fucking lightbulb remote control and blood pressure measurement should be local and easy. It's about how we do digitalization.

Having said that - I also think I don't need that stuff and I don't have it so it's a first world problem. The display shows the blood pressure - Bluetooth is not needed and I've already thought led lightbulbs are to expensive and I'm far too poor to buy some internet connected expensive stuff.

I'm embarrassed at that cheap take at home assistant which seems to be some kind of free open-source version?

On the other hand it's a rant I really can't blame the article it's good at what it does and doesn't want to solve the world's problems. It's just pure frustration about a product that used to work without some shitty cloud and we should collectively fight that we can use and buy stuff without any shitty cloud. It's important. Because it will be everywhere - or already is.

And sure there is an imperialist war going , people don't get healthcare and are still enslaved. It's very first world middle class or even upper middle class privileged problem.

>>unpopu+(OP)
Yes, everything involving smart tech is a first world problem, but that does not mean we should be silent about it. This move is bullshit. If you are comfortable with corporations pushing more and more bullshit into their products even after the fact, fine. I am not, because a lot of my quality of life, for better and worse, depends on their products.

>>unpopu+(OP)
> Quite literally a first world problem.

Exactly. People who have to work for a living are not wasting time or money on the unregulated, abusive, intrusive, deceptive, under-delivering shit show that home automation has become. They just like, hit the light switch. People of normal means do not have time for all this sillyness.

>>OneLeg+59
I have a spinal cord injury (well technically, its an "incomplete" spinal cord injury) and yet must still work for a living (to the extent that I can). I make significant use of this technology as I have limited movement and significant daily pain and limitations I must live with.

I like that I can control things without needing to get up again if required (as mobility is quite difficult for me) but I also make use of motion sensors/schedules and stuff to ensure as much as possible that the areas i'm in are lit without me having to mess around with switches and stuff which can often be difficult with a cane in one hand, if I want to do literally anything else with the other.

It may well be a first world problem for some, but for me, it is simply a problem full stop and some basic home automation stuff has been a big help.