Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet
by adrianN on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:15PM
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What would motivate companies to this shift? Some kind of tax or regulation? Companies don’t care about resilience, they care about selling things.
Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet
by hypfer on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:40PM
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The state. With the power of a state.
Regulation, taxes, law. Can also just take over their business. Oh and they have military.
The state can do literally anything it wants.
It just often shouldn't, because a lot of escalative actions have quite the collateral.
But you don't need any of those to steer here.
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I suspect that for resilience reasons alone, we might see a shift towards connecting less stuff to the public internet.
Not because consumers would complain. No one cares about consumers - including consumers themselves. But because of the threat to the stability of the system, internet connected stuff poses.
The fridge meltdowns are an example of that, but you can equally stun an enemy economy by just messing with the smart lights in people's homes, as it is the people who work.. or don't because they're tired.