My lightbulbs don't require an account, I just get up from the couch and turn them off, has been working perfectly for decades ๐๐
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That's my pet hate with everything.
A mouse doesn't need an account. Just let me install the shit and configure it you fucks.
Linux has built in drivers for most shit with no account necessary. Logitech (for example) has a third party app called Solaar that does everything Logitechs own crappy mouse/keyboard software does.
Getting away from the endless hassle of popups and drivers was my biggest motivation for switching to Linix way back in 2008.
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The Olympics required four apps. Five if you count Visa Go, which just outright didn't work. All of them want you to make accounts and send you shit.
- Itinerary, account optional
- Tickets, account required even though the tickets were on the phone
- Transport, account required even though the tickets were in the
- Metro app, for which it told you to NOT DELETE THE DATA BECAUSE THE TICKETS ARE ONLY ON THE DEVICE
No, lightbulb, I won't give you my location
(actually happened)
I think it was requested on mine for the sunrise/sunset feature, but let me just put in a zip code after I declined location access
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And that's why boomers are constantly 'hacked'.
If you don't want someone else controlling those things, you do indeed need an account. If you are fine with a physical switch to control lights then just stick to that.
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Anyone remember Lyle and Dexter Manning from the Machinima series "Sanity not Included?"
Not wanting to be exploited by tech coorporations, technological literacy, is not a boomer thing.
My nephew says that about everything. Millennials seem to be totally okay with giving away personal stuff as long as it's by choice. Otherwise it's a hard fuckno.
This is something Matter was supposed to address at least for IoT stuff, but it's still not great.
Fighting side by side with a boomer?
What about side by side with a friend?
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Why does my TIVO think I want to record Swamp Loggers?