The “smart” home of the future: a paradise where devices cater to our every need, adjust to our routines, and offer unprecedented convenience. While this dream is often powered by proprietary systems and platforms, we’ll explore why the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement and Linux can offer a more reliable, user-controlled alternative. A software engineer named Brandon Jackson recounts (you can read his full story here), a mere misunderstanding with an Amazon delivery driver led to the suspension of his account, effectively crippling his smart home setup.
Great story. Well, I didn’t actually read Jackson’s whole story (I’m lazy), but just the gist of it that his doorbell failed b/c his Amazon acct got into a bad state says enough. My lazy ass only skimmed through your page as well, as in my case it’s preachin’ to the choir.
But I agree calling IoT appliances “smart” is revolting and I reject it. And I think the problem with the early catch phrase (“Internet of Shit”) is that it’s too hyperbolic to hook on to the moderates who really need to give some thought to this. So I quite like the idea of calling them “dependent”, as the terminology might take hold where it needs to.
BTW, you should not link to #medium.com. Your audience does not appreciate the #enshitifcation of that site, but would rather have scribe.rip URLs.
Thanks for checking out the article! As for skimming through it, well, I guess I’ll take that as a hint that I need to write shorter posts as I do have a tendency of blabbering too much when writing haha
I didn’t know about scribe.rip, I will definitely use that instead of medium from now on thank you!