• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Real talk: nobody should use these things. Not Google’s, not Amazon’s, not Apple’s… They are all capable of spying on you, and also being compromised by hackers.

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            6 months ago

            Happy to hear that matey. I died on that hill trying to achieve the same thing. Either way I simply don’t use any assistance so no need to go for tradeoffs

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            6 months ago

            It definitely has a learning curve but as someone who is much more hands on with very little programming experience, I actually found it pretty intuitive. And frankly for the things that aren’t super intuitive, there’s a community support thread for basically anything you could want to do.

            Never thought I would have one, but homeassistant made it easy enough for me to program my own wall mounted control panel, that it just made sense.

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            6 months ago

            Happy to hear that matey. I died on that hill trying to achieve the same thing. Either way I simply don’t use any assistance so no need to go for tradeoffs

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      6 months ago

      Every time I see this comment I make the point that, from a privacy perspective, they are likely better than average consumer, non-rooted, non-linux phones, laptops, desktops.

      They give back one geographic position - your house, and you don’t give them credit card, society security, Healthcare or other personal information like you frequently use your phone and computer for.

      You don’t even use them to search for porn (cue one guy saying he does)

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      6 months ago

      Apple says that all your data is private. So I extra don’t trust them.

      At least Google and Amazon are up front about the fact they spy on you