• chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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    2 months ago

    What if you have appliances such as a scale, lights, watch or something? Pretty much guaranteed that those won’t work unless you use their app. If you want to go FOSS, you may need to sell all of your smart stuff and replace them with similar devices that do work in a privacy respecting strictly FOSS environment.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, an IoT device would certainly be a huge headache if it was on a proprietary protocol, I’d avoid that if at all possible. Thankfully, they haven’t made something absolutely indispensable yet.

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      2 months ago

      Here’s an idea: not buying “smart devices” that turn into fancy paperweights the second they aren’t connected to a WiFi network.

      • A scale doesn’t need to connect to a server.
      • The lights in your house don’t need to be connected to a server.
      • Your fridge, etc.

      If they do, that’s for something completely different than what you bought them to do. And if there’s no FOSS app to control those extraneous features, it’s a black box.