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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 months agoA smart home is far more secure if every device isn’t connecting to some other company’s service that probably tries to save on IT costs. I don’t want an internet of things, I want a private network of things.
And when each thing is it’s own island, you lose some of the real benefits of having connected things. A smart home that I’d like is one where if I turn on the dishwasher or laundry machine, it checks the water softener to make sure there’s enough soft water that my dishes or clothes won’t end up with dissolved solids when they dry. Instead, smart water softeners that I’ve looked into are all about letting you check if you need salt from your phone or setting up a salt subscription service.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Your completely right. But it is a hard sell to the family. They only really see the loss of functionality. So what I do is two networks. My stuff is on the secure network and theirs is on the other one. When I’m asked why, I say their devices aren’t secure enough and their digital hygiene is too low. They can’t argue with me as I’m the one who knows the most about this stuff by a long long way. I do put my foot down about Alexa and open mic stuff, but lots of stuff has voice functionally I’ve disabled. My wife uses Google’s voice stuff on her phone, which means an open mic to Google and she doesn’t worry when it says “I’m sorry I didn’t understand that” at random times. Really politics need to catch up so we all protected more.