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I like to also acknowledge the “tech enjoyers” which are your average shmucks that work tangentially to tech (tech sales, PM for a tech company, etc…) and think their home automation is the coolest shit ever.
That said, I’m a tech worker that enjoys some minor homelab things like my media server and self hosted Nextcloud. I spin up a Minecraft server every now and then. However I don’t care about my phone controlling my laundry machine and shit like that.
ngl i would enjoy building a home network from scratch thats fun but i dont need it lol
Honestly never saw the draw to that activity. I’ve always kept the network as simple as I can get it. I don’t have any IOT devices, if I did there would probably be a reason to silo my network a bit more. Otherwise, I’m a huge fan of it just working, so I plug in a consumer grade wireless router, maybe a few APs, but that it for me.
in my head it's more about making iot from scratch.. I have no clue how to hook stuff into existing things but finding cute ways to do something that I can't do easily like measure humidity or interact with a little gizmo I made on the wall would be very fun
Yeah fair enough. I’m definitely jaded and just don’t see it the way most people do. A regular old light switch has never failed me. Like I said in another comment, I’m become more of a Luddite as time passes lol.