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tech never works for long (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Why are you sitting in the dark?"

"AWS is down ๐Ÿ˜ž"

Same for me. I don't really like to expose my home and I don't understand how people are so eager to plug in shady WiFi stuff into their network. I've got one "smart" device with WiFi connectivity I've allowed to connect to my network, but I've disallowed going online and I've put it into a different vlan.

Friend of mine: "let's set up a camera in our bedroom to check on on the dog when we're away."

The one thing I will never use a smart device for is my door lock. I don't understand how tech literate people really trust that.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago

I was considering a smart lock for my (armored) front door, but just because there are some locks manufactured here in Italy that can be set to be controlled by external contacts.
Which means I could use and ESP or similar with esphome, now they also support wired, ethernet ones.
That's way more secure than the shitty lock I have now, I've seen videos of people picking that with a decoder device in 30 seconds.

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