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Real.

As a tech worker I do have smart stuff in my home, but it's all self-hosted and under my complete control, with no dependency on cloud.

As a tech worker, the only piece of technology I don't have is a printer. Those things suck. I use the library's if I need to print something.

You can only see so many articles about a ring camera oopsie and people seeing inside others cameras to think maybe this isn't a good idea.

Anything not locally hosted I assume is being harvested by ai, monetized in some capacity and inherently unsafe.

Explaining this to people who don't care is another matter. Realistically it's your personal comfort level of data privacy, they'll get you some way.

Safer to keep the gun out of the printer's reach IMO

As a tech person, I do have smart things, but they are Z-Wave so they are completely isolated from the Internet.

Once you've worked in the sausage factory and know exactly what goes into the sausages, you stop eating sausages.

I really had this moment of clarity when I realized that my smartwatch was sending data to the manufacturer who was sending it to advertisers who are then selling it to health insurance agencies, which may affect me in ways I couldn't imagine.

Now I'm more than happy just wearing a G-Shock every day.

That is because a tech enthusiast dosent know jackshit about how technology actually works. They just see „Wow, insert tech monopoly made new AI Smart revolution (I'm out of buzzwords) thingy that makes no sense over me actually just doing the thing I want with a button, but instead requires a bunch of sensors and microphones that send to the manufacturer 24/7 so you can turn on your coffee machine at 6:00 exactly. Oh, what's that? My Amazon Alexa needs thousands of underpaid Indians working under minimal living conditions so it can recognise exactly what sound I make when waking up? And those audio recordings just got leaked and now everybody knows what I say when sleeping?

Edit: Tech enthusiasts are just paid by the companies to brainwash people. They are the baby pigeons of the tech world.

As a tech worker, I don’t believe in printers anymore. I’m coming up on three years at my current job and haven’t needed to look for a printer yet. My home printer was there mostly for school projects but now that my kids are in college, I’m taking an axe to it the minute it gives me any grief

didn’t we ban twitter posts yet?

Printers are the worst piece of tech we ever invented. I don't care what anyone thinks, we should have stuck with the old fashioned printing press, that was where the technology peaked.

Every tech device I have that is more than what an average person would have is the dumbest possible device for the job. Video switcher is a 4x1 with a remote that has 4 buttons. Stereo is analog. Shit if I could rip my therostat out of the wall and install dumber temp gages I would.

I have a lot of computers in my house but no "smart" stuff.

I finally had to break down and get a printer bcz amazon keeps sending me trash.

Tech enthusiast who works in tech here. I haven't owned a printer for more than a decade.

I am both of these 🫣 though I am pretty picky about what smart stuff I buy. Especially if it has a microphone. Also hurts me to use WiFi devices that don’t support wpa3

I have an hp printer (I know) that is shoved in the corner of the spare bedroom. All alone, in the dark, so it can think about what it did.

I try not to e-waste so I'm waiting until it dies to replace it.

"I'm not giving my name to a machine!" - Bender, Futurama

For me it was buying the cheapest Brother laser jet I could find (50 bucks in 2016) and stuffing it in a closet until I need it.