I find your lack of hacker mentality much more ridiculous.

Typically hacking gains you more control over things - seems fair to question if ceding control over the lights in your home to an external service is within the spirit of "hacking". Maybe "rube goldberging".

> Typically hacking gains you more control over things

only according to the more modern definition of “hacking”

the earlier version of the term referred to people who write novel, interesting or clever software for the love of the craft.

i think using discord as a free message queue (see spivak’s comment in the thread) is pretty damn clever actually.

i kinda want to build something with it now.

Discord works just fine most of the time, its not that big of a deal. I assume they can still turn off their lights any which other way.