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.
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.