I know this trope is popular but it’s hardly true. I work in tech and have a fully wired / smart home, as do several others I know.
That being said, we are picky about which smart components we use.
Home assistant with all local devices. This meme is getting tired.
This meme is always spouted by paper engineers trying to fit in, meanwhile all the neckbeards can’t go a second without mentioning home assistant lol.
Yeah, I have iot devices that are on their own wifi. Lover the automation for the thermostat. I am degoogling, last one is my phone, going to try out graphanie. Doorbell is poe, next is a door lock.
Spot on. Zero smart features in this house.
I don’t even use the moisture sensing settings on my dryer. Fuck you machine, you don’t get to decide when my pants are dry enough. You will run for 56 minutes and you’ll shut the fuck up about it.
It would probably be a short series but I wonder how a cartoon strip about a low-esteem appliance would carry.
In Red Dwarf, Dave Lister owns a self-aware toaster. He doesn’t like toast. The toaster hates him for it
Just read Hitchhiker’s Guide. Marvin would count, but there’s also depressed doors and other unfortunately sentient objects.
Ha, Marvin was anything but low esteem though! Miserable, frustrated, cynical, yes, but certainly knew how underutilized he was and constantly made reference to it because he knew his own capability. It was the idiot universe with which he couldn’t reconcile.
One word, homelabbing
I’m in IT and have a home assistant and pfsense. I run my own photo cloud server and even my own server for jabber/messaging my family.
Internet connected systems are ok as long as you’re protected.
What do you use for photos? Is it Linux or windows?
Not parent, but I run Immich and I really love it. Very integrated with mobile, works great on desktop. Docker on Linux, works great on a small N100 NUC.
I’ve heard of that one. I’ll look into it tonight
I’m using Immich as well. I run this from my proxmox as a docker.
Well, they said they work in IT, not that they’re any good at it. If they were, they’d be ok implementing technology in their lives since the whole reason to do so is to improve your life. Risk vs reward.
Even cloud based services are ok depending on use case and what controls you can put in place.
Pre-2005 printers can still shoot a loaded gun.
Stay woke.I’m the opposite. I used to build computers. I’ve beat a bunch of cool video games over the last 40 years. I’ve used Windows for 30 years, Word for 25 years, Excel for 20 years. I started my smartphone journey in 2010 with Android (iPhone wasn’t available where I lived for years after) and I did custom firmware, root, Xposed, all that shit.
I’m a Mac user at home and an iPhone user now, and I have a pretty basic job. My coworkers ask me why I don’t work in IT. I say I don’t want to hate computers. I keep it a hobby. I’m still a gamer. I’m good with Windows but I’m tired of Microsoft’s shit. Apple does a couple things that annoys me. I know I could put Linux on my M-series Macs if I really wanted to. So far, I don’t. If my Intel PCs didn’t die, they’d be running Linux now. I didn’t buy Macs just for the hell of it. I never wanna use another kind of laptop (though I suppose that could change), but for a desktop… I still like my Mac desktop, but I also wanna repurpose an old Dell workstation as a Linux server? But also I feel like my most tinkering days were behind me and I’d probably get hacked trying to do something clever.
I guess the tl;dr is, I got old, I got lazy, and I chose easy. We do get some cool tricks. So OP was kind of on this meme posting spree? I copied the links on my MacBook, pasted them into Safari on my iPhone (universal copy/paste is so useful!) and then sent the memes to my wife. Typing it all out I realise I have Telegram on my MacBook as well, but now I have the memes in my meme folder on my iPhone, so win/win?
Programmer here. Can confirm.
I hate technology. I just love writing code.
