Yes, that is a legitimate use case for that technology.
I do not consider myself anti-tech by any stretch of the imagination (I can put my hands on no less than five computers from where I’m sitting) and I want things like voice assistants and smart houses and whatnot for the benefits they can provide, but we’ve got to pry the invasive corporate bullshit out first.
Yeah I’m with you. In most settings it’s me who is the tinfoil hat. I fully degoogled by 2019, began self-hosting bridgeable services years prior when SBCs and containers made it easier to scale, and all my smarthome artifice is offline save for a limited interface exposed via HomeKit.
But I still make guarded exceptions where the value-add is simply too high to ignore (e.g. using smart phones and fitness trackers) and/or the big-tech privacy commitments still appear to hold (though that’s pretty much down to just Apple now, and I know eventually they’ll turn too).
If it sounds like I want to have my cake and eat it too, that’s because I do, but I agree with you.
Like I stopped using fitness trackers on smart phones because I realized all of them want my data more than they want to be a value add to my smart phone purchase. I don’t want the power company to manage my thermostat because the power company isn’t on my side.
Yes, that is a legitimate use case for that technology.
I do not consider myself anti-tech by any stretch of the imagination (I can put my hands on no less than five computers from where I’m sitting) and I want things like voice assistants and smart houses and whatnot for the benefits they can provide, but we’ve got to pry the invasive corporate bullshit out first.
Yeah I’m with you. In most settings it’s me who is the tinfoil hat. I fully degoogled by 2019, began self-hosting bridgeable services years prior when SBCs and containers made it easier to scale, and all my smarthome artifice is offline save for a limited interface exposed via HomeKit.
But I still make guarded exceptions where the value-add is simply too high to ignore (e.g. using smart phones and fitness trackers) and/or the big-tech privacy commitments still appear to hold (though that’s pretty much down to just Apple now, and I know eventually they’ll turn too).
If it sounds like I want to have my cake and eat it too, that’s because I do, but I agree with you.
Like I stopped using fitness trackers on smart phones because I realized all of them want my data more than they want to be a value add to my smart phone purchase. I don’t want the power company to manage my thermostat because the power company isn’t on my side.