if my lightbulb had to connect to wifi for me to turn it on and off i'd rip it out of the socket and rapidly disassemble it with a gun
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if my lightbulb had to connect to wifi for me to turn it on and off i'd rip it out of the socket and rapidly disassemble it with a gun
On the other hand, I'm the kind of person who logs my carbon dioxide sensor data to a VSAM ESDS dataset on my simulated System/370.
Well that's not a "smart" accessory. That's you, rigging up a sensor, telling a machine how and when to collect the data, and choosing on your own where it goes.
A "smart home" internet of shit device connects to a proprietary server and automatically collects who knows how much data to send off to who knows where, without any kind of transparency to the user. Your toaster has DRM and won't toast unless it can phone the mothership.