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by VoodooJuJu 998 days ago
>I hate the future.

You chose this future.

But you can choose a better one: use mechanical switches. No cloud, no complexity, no need to pay homage to some malevolent centralized authority just to turn on a lamp.

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> centralized authority just to turn on a lamp

Do you generate your own electricity, too?

[I too use mechanical switches and am wary of most smart tech. And I buy my electricity from the power company.]

Conveniently left out "malevolent", I see. Yikes.
/S

Not only do you get less complexity, the wizards of the EE world have created a capability based secure system called the "circuit breaker" that prevents all of the authority of the power grid flowing through your end user application and taking out the local system (i.e. burning down your house)

If only we had such security in the IT world. ;-)