Corporations now buy the carpet bomb factory to expand their bomb product line and then carpet bomb their own factory after the war is over.

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    7 months ago

    I remember some years ago, per-pandemic, when my coworkers and friends were getting hyped up about this stuff. I was the Luddite who they mocked for not being excited about it.

    But I knew it was just more data gathering (spying) tech, and I knew the products would be made with planned obsolescence in mind, and I knew they would require subscriptions for cloud services. It doesn’t take any super power or precognition to know these things, it just requires paying a modicum of attention to trends and past performance from these corporations.

    It’s discouraging how many otherwise smart people I know who are absolute suckers for tech bro marketing.

    Don’t have FOMO (fear of missing out), cultivate FOBAD (fear of being a dumbass).

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      Yeh luckily they (corporations) beat hype for new toys out of me before iot really took off. Now I just see everything that connects to the net through the lense of how are they screwing ne and how soon are they killing it

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      Home Assistant is open source, privacy oriented and working to make local non-cloud, non-Spyware) the norm.

      It’s getting easier and easier to adopt and matter devices avoid cloud silliness.