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A comment on IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant.

Re:IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home ... by toasted_flakes on Monday November 23, 2020 @05:31AM (#25185340)
It's really cool that there are open source bridges between the proprietary ecosystems. But I have to ask, why would you want to deal with all of this just to speak to your phone instead of pressing a button to open the garage door or turning on the light?

And this questionable convenience uses finite resources on earth, both carbon emission and ore. It's hard to scale back on what we use, and I wouldn't go back to a 17" monitor for coding. But maybe we could at least try to avoid creating new stuff that's accelerating our demise?

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Re:IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home ... by stdbrouw on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:54AM (#25186233)
The amount of resources involved is next to nothing compared to pretty much any other hobby you might imagine, whether that's painting, tinkering with motorcycles, setting up a home recording studio or even just hiking.
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