Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home
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Anyone who gets a "smart home" deserves what happens in my opinion.
This was triggered by the Amazon delivery driver actually, who 'misheard' or lied about what happened. Even if you have no smart devices this could happen to you and Amazon can lock you out immediately.
If I don't have smart devices what are they going to lock me out of?
At minimum your Amazon account, if you have music or books stored on it they can lock you out simply because the delivery driver said so.
Well, I don't have any of that either but I guess that could be a problem for some.
"Smart" <insert here> have always catered to dumb inserts.
There’s ways to have smart home devices, but instead of it phoning home it would connect to your personal server. I remember seeing it about a year or so ago. I just haven’t bothered to implement it because it’s a little bit costly and it takes some time to get started.
Or, you could just not have them at all…
Because fuck that, frankly.
No offense, but no one needs these things, in any capacity…
Cameras you do need. As for light switches, thermostats, and whatever else that has the capabilities of making you lazy I can agree you don’t need. But if you do feel like being a lazy fucktard like me then there’s a way you can do it without relying on companies that make money off your data.
I manage just fine without any of these devices, lol...
Why do you need a "smart" camera? There's plenty of "dumb" home security cams that do just as good a job, for what most people would need/want, surely..??
But seriously, while this may be entirely a matter of perspective, I can't see any reason why I would want, or need, any of those devices in my home, whatsoever.
And I've stayed in a number of places with those things installed. It was shit. I hated it.
So yeah, each to their own, I suppose!
Home assistant is an example of such a setup and i run it on a docker container
That’s what I was thinking. I’ve been meaning to get it all setup using that, but I’ve been lazy about my server lately.
They already began that, notice how they are removing gas appliances from your kitchen and forcing cars to have the chips inside?
This process has been ongoing for years now.
It has opensource alts. İe mycroft. But normies arent tech savvy enough to use it
It's coming. Friend moved into an apartment complex that has "smart" apartments via Amazon/Alexa and they're not allowed to disable them.
That’s… that’s just evil.
I would never agree to live in a hellhole like that…
So far it's just Landlords installing and mandating it. But I can see tin-pot dictators on HOA boards salivating about this too.
Read your contracts carefully.
Gas isn't that hard if you have the scratch. People out in the sticks already have 1000 gallon propane tanks to run their heat and appliances.