Another new and more information here : New Design Trend: People Downgrading 'Smart' Homes to Analog 'Dumb' Homes, Some with Landlines and Offline Appliances - Slashdot
And then there are some of us who never bought into āsmart homes.ā
People are so gullible.
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I canāt believe people are still using slashdot.
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Well ā¦ I am still using it like as a newspaper ! very good source of news and information !
Did you ever check out NewsNow? I find that useful.
Sorry I donāt have any thoughts on the Downgrading āSmart Homesāā¦ technology is fickle at best of times. My father was a mechanic and swears that things broke less in his day, and if they did break it was easy to fix. Nowadays, with electrics and computers, when things break itās a nuisance to fix.
I usually keep as much as I can mechanical, locks for example, no need for a āsmart lockā afaik they are easily hackable and iffy at best.
What do you know, I did have some thoughts on it.
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Hi, it doesnāt matter I just added because it says about āThis is a New Desifn Trendā, I just want to add news about Design and Graphic Design to this forum. About NewsNow ? I donāt know anything ! but I will check on the web and thanks for the info ! Hi Smurf and I checked the link, thanks so much this is going to be so useful for me ! and really appreciated !
Yeah, I never jumped on the smart home thing ā¦ especially āAlexa.ā I donāt want anyone listening in on my (admittedly mundane) life. And you canāt convince me they arenāt listening.
There have been a few times when Iāve been at the grocery store and thought it would be great to start preheating my oven. Aside from that, Iāve never felt like I was missing anything.
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Iāve never bought into the smart home thing either, and have avoided Alexa for similar reasons to yours. Thereās no way that I want a big tech company possibly listening in on what I say at home. Even if itās benign and they donāt actually listen in, the whole thing is creepy.
A few months ago, we bought a new refrigerator. The salesperson kept trying to upsell us on fridges that connected to the internet to do a variety of utterly unimportant tasks related to the food in them. I finally told the guy that I didnāt want my fridge connected to the internet, which caused a puzzled look on his face, as though I was telling him that I preferred riding in a horse-drawn carriage to riding in an automobile.
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