Because people have been trained since the eighties to ignore EULAs and just click "ok".
Most people, have no idea they don't own the video their door bell takes...
Hell I'm fairly tech savvy and I didn't know. (Don't have a camera).
Tech savvy people don't fall for the bullshit or use open source products.
There's two kinds of tech enthusiasts. Ones who think cloud based is a great feature that means they don't have to worry about it as much, and ones who understand that using the cloud just means you give up control of any data that ends up there, possibly along with control of the device itself.
Wait, don't forget the third type: the kind that knows self-hosting is better in almost all ways, and hates HATES not having ownership (or even just access!) to the raw data and dev interface, but is too ground down by their capitalist bullshit work week and other life to keep up with the admin of maintaining their own systems. SIGH.
I don't use Arch, btw.
Yeah, that's a subset of the 2nd group. I'm in that group. I'd like to have some smart home features but haven't gotten around to setting it up and don't want the easy options.
Plus is there even a smart water softener in the market that you can have a server check how much soft water is available before it needs to cycle and compare with how much water a dishwasher or laundry cycle needs to cycle the softener before running either of those to make sure it doesn't run out?
Because people have been trained since the eighties to ignore EULAs and just click "ok".
Most people, have no idea they don't own the video their door bell takes...
Hell I'm fairly tech savvy and I didn't know. (Don't have a camera).
Tech savvy people don't fall for the bullshit or use open source products.
There's two kinds of tech enthusiasts. Ones who think cloud based is a great feature that means they don't have to worry about it as much, and ones who understand that using the cloud just means you give up control of any data that ends up there, possibly along with control of the device itself.
Wait, don't forget the third type: the kind that knows self-hosting is better in almost all ways, and hates HATES not having ownership (or even just access!) to the raw data and dev interface, but is too ground down by their capitalist bullshit work week and other life to keep up with the admin of maintaining their own systems. SIGH.
I don't use Arch, btw.
Yeah, that's a subset of the 2nd group. I'm in that group. I'd like to have some smart home features but haven't gotten around to setting it up and don't want the easy options.
Plus is there even a smart water softener in the market that you can have a server check how much soft water is available before it needs to cycle and compare with how much water a dishwasher or laundry cycle needs to cycle the softener before running either of those to make sure it doesn't run out?