Ulrich

Oh, haha, I bet.

Huh?

They don’t really have many legitimate, practical uses for most people. They’re ideal for pentesters.

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It is true that this device can be used nefariously. But it’s just a computer with a wide variety of very basic and common communication methods along with software to exploit them. There are many other computers like it that are just less popular. And to ban it is to ban said basic communication hardware like radio, WiFi, NFC, etc.

The solution is to mandate companies to provide a minimum level of security. Even giant companies with good reputations have giant security holes, like Apple or your bank, implementing mandatory SMS as 2FA. That shit should be illegal.

Don’t blame HA for your choice in gear.

1. This has absolutely nothing to do with my gear.

2. I am not “blaming” HA at all. I am blaming the hundreds of people on the internet who constantly insist that everyone should use it, and that it’s “easy to use”.

I managed to set it up with no issues.

Copngratulations. You are clearly significantly more experienced than I am with technology. Along with 95% of the general population.

So why were you updating anything that was working?

Asking me why I would update my install is a strange question. All the same reasons anyone else would update their installs. All the same reasons they continue to create updates.

Were you using cheap-ass crap that needed a cloud connection?

Yes, I was using cheap crap. Mostly from Aqara. Once again, the gear was never the problem. The problem was the HA configuration.

None of it needed any cloud connections other than whatever moron decided to distribute integrations directly through Github.

I used it for several years. It’s incredibly complicated to set up. After the 3rd or 4th time it offed itself randomly or some random update broke it, I gave up and put manual shit back everywhere. Giant waste of time and money. Please don’t send others to the same fate.

You do, however, need a degree in software engineering.

As much as it may feel like it, Trump hasn’t been President for the last 10 years.

How about the FTC or someone do something about the blatant false advertising they’ve been doing over the last 10 years instead of just waiting for someone to sue them!? Fuck, just do your damn jobs.

Don’t they have enough?!?

No no, it’s just 1 more data center bro, then we’ll fix the hallucinations, promise bro!

Well one thing’s for sure, data centers are going to be insanely cheap in the near future.

Hmm, I was fully expecting Ron Swanson there.

Debian does not get the latest versions of anything. It is designed for, above all, stability, which means changes to the stable branch are greatly delayed while testing is completed.