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[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah gotta be awesome to get your whole house turned off because some dump delivery guy though he might have heard would be racist word via ring bell. Gotta love self entitlement of these "smart" corpos.

Not to mention :

  • stuff stops getting supported all of sudden
  • privacy concerns
  • subscriptions
  • handing over security to untrustworthy corpo

I'm sure there are more....

[–] currawong@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Freelance IT tech here. I can totally relate to this.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are selfhosted smart homes fyi

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[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IT professional of 15 years here. I have all the smart home shit and I love it. It's all on a separate VLAN, I have MAC address filtering network-wide and I have a firewall. I understand being burnt out by your job and not wanting to deal with it when you get home, but I love my work and my smart home stuff is robust enough that all I ever have to do is replace alarm sensor batteries once or twice a year. You can have both.

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 15 points 1 year ago

IoT is terrible, and typically proprietary. I prefer the FOSS and SelfHosted route. But as it turns out, I too prefer a less online set of home items.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have very minimal smarts in my home. I'm jaded and over it all, and you can guarantee the shitty devs producing this stuff couldn't care less, while working for actively hostile mega-corps.

Fuck that. Having said that, there are compromises - my TV does get out to the internet and I have a win 11 PC in the lounge as the primary machine.

If I had the emotional energy I'd start fiddling with nessus or whatever the new flavour is, to confirm my suspicions but I just don't need the burnout

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

When you see how the sausage is made you don't want it. Software engineers know how many corners are cut

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

Your network is only as secure as it's weakest link, IoT devices are a liability unless they are on their own isolated network and who has the time to set that shit up to open their blinds from a phone?

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I work in retail, which is the reason why my house is shit.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Can confirm. Technology is a disaster waiting to happen.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Has OpenWRT but doesn't know how to stop smart home gear from leaking data?

Back to school for this fella

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Goddamn right.

Actually, I hadn't thought about the router and I'm panicking now. My router is some MR9600, and the speeds through it are great, but I feel like I over paid for something that I can't install my own firmware on. I think my pi.hole is the DCHP anyway, and now I'm really thinking I need to find a new router

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[–] Willer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My strategy is just be unpredictable af. Use FOSS as much as possible. Dont use google services except maybe google maps. Make an active effort to decouple accounts. Treat phone number 2fa like the plague.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

IT since the 90's.

I have all those things and more, and 6 seperate VLAN's with isolation, strong rules, alerting and honeypots in all the right places.

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[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I can confirm most of the people who say and believe this shit don't have a clue what they're talking about and just want to appear superior to others.

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