Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default.
Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke.
True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen.
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but it tapers off very quickly, namely setting up the gateway might take half a day, pairing the first device might take an hour… but then the next 10 devices will probably take 10min.
Sorta, then ESPHome updates or something and everything breaks until fixes are made. It’s certainly a lot more knowledge required to set up and manage them than most people have or care to learn about just for some smart devices.