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"My guess is that almost everyone reading this forum spends a shitload of money buying techno gadgets for reasons beyond "it saves me money."" My guess would b
by rsync 11y ago
"My guess is that almost everyone reading this forum spends a shitload of money buying techno gadgets for reasons beyond "it saves me money.""
My guess would be that the HN reader is more discerning and sophisticated than that.
I am guessing that a lot of HN readers are considering questions like:
- how many different sources of data egress do I want in my home ? (as few as possible)
- how many different wireless network topologies should be running, and overlayed, on my home ? (perhaps zero, other than wifi and cellular)
- how fragile should my appliances be to things like DoS, firmware compatibility, licensing, network connectivity, etc. ? (not fragile at all)
Think of your current interactions with your printer. Think of how often that works flawlessly and how often it doesn't and think of the underlying business models and network models that make it so (god-damned) fragile and user-hostile. Now imagine everything works like this. That's the Internet of Things. I suspect many HN readers are quite wary of it ...
- shostack 11y agoThe business model part of your comment scares the crap out of me the more I let it sit. Case in point, printer manufacturers are now nlargely no longer selling individual b/w and color cartridges. They now sell them physically connected as a single block and when one color goes, you gotta toss the whole thing. And God help you if you try to refill with generics and void the warrNty. Now picture that applied to your home, with companies doing their damnedest to lock you into their overpriced proprietary consumables. Familiar with Simple Human? Case in point and they aren't even a Smart Device. Imagine if they refused to update unless you switched to their SaaS model like some certain software companies have.
- unprepare 11y agoReminds me of Keurig introducing DRM into their new 2.0 coffee brewers. It uses a scanner to authenticate the k-cups, and refuses to brew cups it determines as non-authentic.
- sliverstorm 11y ago+1 for knowing how to spell 'wary'. Seriously, I've discovered a horrifyingly small number of people spell it right.