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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by adrianN on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:15PM (#50444017)
What would motivate companies to this shift? Some kind of tax or regulation? Companies don’t care about resilience, they care about selling things.
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Re:Smart home devices should work without the internet by hypfer on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:40PM (#50445246)
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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