I feel the same way, I explicitly avoid any device described as "smart". I don't need a "smart" blender or microwave or coffeemaker or refrigerator or anything

I feel the same way, I explicitly avoid any device described as "smart". I don't need a "smart" blender or microwave or coffeemaker or refrigerator or anything else. The only two exceptions are my phone (hard to avoid) and my radiator thermostats. For the latter, they are connected to the internet and I can adjust temperature and put them in "holiday mode" from an app or web page. However the control box doesn't require any firewall holes or port openings, as far as I can tell it gets updates by sending a HTTP request to the same online portal where I can control my heating schedules. It communicates with the thermostats and window sensors on some kind of RF protocol similar to Z-wave, but if someone goes to the effort of hacking that just to mess with my heating, I would actually be a bit flattered. I probably wouldn't choose the internet-connected version again. Even though it is a lot easier to setup and manage, I think I would prefer the "dumb" standalone units. They're a bit more fiddly to setup initially, and you have to put each of them to holiday mode manually. But I would prefer to not have them connected to any kind of network. I used to be the type of person who wanted everything 100% connected 100% of the time. Over the last couple of years, I've taken a pretty hard turn in the opposite direction, I prefer to have everything as simple and standalone as possible.