I cannot sleep with the bulb being off, so I bought a smart bulb so it shut down after I sleep.
Re:Ask HN: What are IoT's do and don't?
by nonrandomstring on Sunday April 10, 2022 @03:46AM
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I still just get my mum to check for monsters under the bed.
I think you just demonstrated the main one.
If you'd thought about the dangers of IoT before buying it you'd actually have had a chance to take meaningful action, by not buying it.
Now you're stuck with an object that is either going to cause you problems you know about but choose to roll with, or problems that you're unaware of, or is a lump of e-waste that's going into a landfill where it will cause known and unknown problems for everybody else.
The universe in which you bought a benign and useful object is probably not the same one where you're posting on HN asking just how dangerous it is.
That said, I hope it brings you great joy and lights up your life in a danger free way.