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Even setting up a vlan doesn’t work half the time because the mobile apps don’t talk directly with the appliance but phone home to a cloud service. A cloud service that will eventually go offline and leave the appliances orphaned. That’s how GE’s thermostats work.
Yeah but that’s why the cross-post feature exists in lemmy, so users can be part of similar communities without seeing the same story duplicated on their feed or having the conversation split in multiple places.