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It's hard for a "reasonable" person to follow this advice.

They get something home, and it is useful, and their spouse or kids like it... but it has to be hooked to the internet. maybe it needs an account to activate. or many of the other convenient/inconvenient tricks.

But I'm happy that we have home assistant and tasmota and esphome and all these other wonderful projects that route around lots of these problems.