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You left your WRT open?
I jest but you should be using OPNsense, OpenWRT is so old and OPNsense has many more features.
People connect their thermostat to the internet?
Yes, so they can change it while they are away from home … for some reason.
Because it takes time for an air conditioner to cool down the place, and it wastes energy to keep it running for 8 hours while you’re at work.
Having worked in IT for 17 years. I don’t trust any MFer that uses their IT experience as a reason to do something.
I will trust people using their IT experience as a reason to avoid something, though
Not all of us will do it to the same degree though. IT security has always been a sliding scale between security and convenience. The most secure data is stored in a locked safe without being turned on or connected to anything. That’s not very practical, so we make concessions based on how often we need such data and other convenience metrics.
I’m not as paranoid as the OP, though I agree with some of the stuff said. Reasonable security measures are fine; you don’t need to look like a digital version of a prepper with a bunker, for most people.
Edit: for instance I don’t use my TV all that much, but it is a “smart” TV, meaning it has apps that connect to Internet, and I have some online libraries.
It seems like half of the people claiming they work in this field actually struggle more than the average person
As a general rule, if you buy “smart” anything where it requires an internet connection and a cloud service to function it will be bitrotten within 5 years and dead within 10. And that’s assuming the company survives that long and is bothered to support it. That’s from planned obsolescence and the ongoing cost of supporting the platform when they have something new to sell. And while some things benefit from an internet connection, if its white goods or whatever where functionality is locked into an account, an app and the cloud, then run a mile.
I think forward thinking companies could actually gain a lot of free publicity and sales if they openly pledged that their softwarewas in escrow and would automatically release after a period of time and/or as a failsafe if the company discontinued the product and/or they went bust.
it will be bitrotten within 5 years and dead with 10
Worse, it could get bought out and converted to a Meta, Google, or Amazon product.
It should be required that companies either maintain their services perpetual or release the software with a permissive license to allow users to maintain their own service.
Mechanical Windows
As opposed to what, wireless windows?
How about bio-windows?
Microsoft Windows
Electric windows exist. I guess these days they can also be controlled wirelessly.
Following computer security stuff makes every smart thing suspicious
As they should be.
I used to work the IT help desk as well and I didn’t want to fix broken shit in my spare time either. Friends and family were constantly on me to fix their shit or worse, help them setup their new thing / upgrade or whatever. The thing that always irritated me about it was that no one ever considered this a favor, you know, actual labor. To them, I just knew the secrets, and should simply share those secrets with them like a good friend. Because whatever they wanted to do, in their minds, was very very bad easy, they were just missing some small secret answer that would make it all suddenly work. And of course they’d only consult me late in the game after they’d made the purchase or whatever and gotten stuck because it didn’t work. Eventually I had to formally declare that I wouldn’t be helping anyone anymore.
The only people I do this stuff for is my parents, because they certainly did a lot for me over the decades. Also, if I don’t do these things for them, some asshole will drain their bank accounts because their passwords would be the names of their children.
I just started writing up invoices for my side hustle and quoting prices to fix their shit.
I do that for a day job, so I have no interest in working more for free. Putting a price tag on the help definitely helped cut down how much bullshit they tried to get me to do
Tell them “Only if you help me” and make them sit and watch and learn. If they stop watching/helping, so do you. They will then learn how time consuming it can be and it’s not just one magic secret.
If it’s a very well defined task with repeatable steps, sure. Often it’s more like “why won’t my CarPlay open my garage door?” And in those cases I barely even know where to start and need to experiment and fiddle, and the last thing I want is them hanging on my arm asking questions and offering bad theories.
That’s exactly when I want them hanging around, so they learn that I don’t know shit, and now we both will be learning how to fix something at the same time
Next time they will think “he doesn’t know shit himself, no point in asking, might as well Google myself how to fix”
My trick with family is I tell them “Well, I can do it, try harder.” It’s my little way to show them how much I appreciate how often they told me I was mentally handicapped growing up.
Same thing for mechanics. My dad has wrenched for 45 years and you should see what he drives lol
I have plenty of iot devices. Like anything that goes online, it’s how you set it up. If you know how to monitor traffic, it’s not terribly hard to get these things to behave how you want them to.
Home assistant!
Good, solid state tech should last basically forever unless something wild happens.
Technology under capitalism becomes a hazard and a threat.
Non-IT people don’t find much use in these things either. There’s a brief futurism novelty that wears off. The devices sit unused until they inevitably break or go obsolete. Or they give up using out of frustration. Not because they’re tech illiterate. Because they realize the thing didn’t need to be IOT.
I work in cyber security and I have lots of smart home things. I also assume my network’s being compromised at all times and keep anything really important on paper in a safe.
swap out those mechanicals windows for mechanical linux and then we’ll talk
I am more of a hydraulic Linux person myself
You must feel compressed.
That’s pneumatic Linux, though.
Actually it’s GNUmatic Linux.
Likely not, the whole point of hydraulics is that the fluid is non-compressible!
I use Arch BTW.
Like just huge arches instead of windows or even doors, Arch is all you need.
I never thought about how a physical arch relates to physical windows. Interesting.
I thought Emacs is all you need?
Incorrect, you need
According to this documentary, you’re wrong!
Real programmers use memes to program the machines of the world.
Tfw you come to your first day of work in critical infrastructure to maintain drivers and highly critical network applications and they’re all written in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
My house too. I don’t work in IT, I just can’t afford any of this.
