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Re:Big Tech’s not-so-secret plan to monopolize your home by Supersaiyan_IV on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:03PM (#28699153)
What's the point of a home that depends on centralised Cloud services? "Sorry Dave, there's a bug in the Cloud, can't let you turn on that light-bulb".

Regardless, to those that's have no clue how to procure a good offline solution themselves, Alexa, Google, and Siri are the only options.

Or, simply don't?

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Re:Big Tech’s not-so-secret plan to monopolize your home by piceas on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:46AM (#28703815)
I went with Ikea for a some small amount of smarts that can be completely offline, at least for their lights. It has not always just worked but what does always will no cloud needed.
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