Smart home

Tech worker here. My house is largely smart, but it's all controlled by a local server.

Personally I love the idea of a smart home only if its self hosted and running on fully open source software, also never put a gun near an unattended printer :3

I'm horrified when I see someone with an Alexa in their home

That's bullshit. No one really does keep a gun next to their printer to shoot it in an emergency, the notion is just ridicolus.

What if the printer grabs the gun first? You need to keep it out of reach of the printer.

As a tech worker, I'd rather have a panicked skunk in my home than a printer.

Your entire house is smart hackable and tracks your every step for advertising revenue of big companies.

I wish it was more common for printers to have or be supported by open source firmware. Maybe then I might start to trust them enough to buy one.

this guy should check out c/selfhosted

In more civilized countries, we keep a sledgehammer read to bash the printer with, rather than a gun.

Even if I wanted to smartify my home using open source and local servers. I wouldn't even know what to make smart.

Lights only ever need to be on when I am in the room, but every door has a switch that only requires my arm to lift a bit. So what is the point in powering electronics for that? Just wastes energy.

Anything with a lock is a no-go anyway.

I rarely close my curtains, and don't see why they should do so automatically in the off chance of it happening.

I don't need to touch my thermostat when I am not at home.

Can anyone tell me actual useful applications that aren't just a gimmick?

I'm paranoid at work because that's my job.

At home, I'm off the clock and my digital hygiene and organization is atrocious.

I’m a tech worker, and I’ve got tons of smart things. They’re just all local. (Except my garage door opener. Man, fuck LiftMaster. Oh and my thermostat. Ecobee is ok, but I wish they would offer a local only option.)

So how do you send documents to the printer?

This gives a new meaning to trouble shooting. 🤔

I program for a living.

I can't stand all the smart shit people talk about. I hate installing software updates. I hate having to download an app just to use some shitty hardware. I hate needing an internet connection to use something. I hate having to charge yet another device.

I really hate software. I try to avoid it as much as possible.

As a tech worker, it's stunning how many of my colleagues have smart Amazon or Apple surveillance home

This is part of the reason I have no intention of having anything to do with IT once I retire.

Other tech workers: My house is dumb because I use all money for either a new server or fursuits.

It’s an Okidata ribbon printer.

I don't have to be in tech to not want my lightbulbs connected to the internet, my car collecting data and any decice listening to me.

I really just want a not technology smart life and its getting harder and harder.

I like having smart lights. I think having smart locks would also be kinda cool. There isn't really anything else in my home that would benefit from smartness, though. I mean, other than me.

My printer is on a separate network and traffic to and from it is controlled via pfSense. There isn't a single "smart" device in my network.

I know a tech enthusiast, his house scares me

always heard printers were the most insecure tech to have, but that was decades ago, we got all sorts of devices nowadays that could be worse

god damn right.

Just attempted adding the mqtt addon to hass since migrating to a raspberry pi. Will only bootloop without ever providing a gui. observer shows all green when it is alive. Logs are unhelpful. I just wana sleep man.

As someone into the Home Assistant community, this post is always annoying and wrong.

Judging by the amount of random noises my inkjet makes, this dude must go through a lot of printers.

I usually keep a stuffed animal near my Brother printer

Man, I remember reading about all this home automation stuff in Compute's Gazette for the Commodore 64. It's been around forever and a day.

My buddy is a tech worker with his entire house wired up. But it's also all probably tied into his own personal server and whatnot, with nothing on any clouds.

Tech worker here. I am this 🤏 fucking close to dragging every god damn thing designed to pass an electron out to the driveway and fucking hack it to bits with an axe (that I use for hewing and preparing lumber, so I can live in the wilderness when technology wins).

Haha, "hack to bits" haha. No pun intended.