this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Pfft, most of my home is smart, but because I'm actually an IT professional none of my smart devices are allowed to call home unless I explicitly allow them to (for firmware updates). The only thing they're allowed to talk to is my homeassistant server.
This meme is always dumb when it comes around, many of us with skills can pull off a smart home without resorting to "the cloud(s)" even if it means building our own IoT devices.
Do I trust Ring? Fuck no! Do I trust the camera doorbell I built and wrote the code with my own 2 hands and knows what it's doing with every byte of data? Tentatively.
I'm taking things a step further and building a HAL9000 system for my house. This time with 15% less mental illness.