Just another step along the path to declaring the Butlerian Jihad on smart devices.
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As Internet of Things reporter Stacey Higginbotham points out, high-ranking Insteon executives, including CEO Rob Lilleness, have scrubbed the company from their LinkedIn accounts. In the time it took to write this article, Lilleness also removed his name and picture from his LinkedIn profile. It seems like that is the most communication longtime Insteon customers are going to get.
In 2017, Smartlabs Inc. was acquired by Richmond Capital Partners, a private investment firm founded by Rob Lilleness, and Lilleness was installed as CEO. Insteon scrubbed the blog post about this acquisition from its website, but archive.org still has the announcement. Insteon’s biggest tech-news splash was being one of two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit in 2015.
This is the absolute state of modern capitalism lmao. Companies with actual means of production working to create material goods with actual values getting bought by finance who extracted and converted the value into fictitious capital, and then once all is done they shut down the means of production and held a last sale for its carcass.
In sale world this should considered detrimental to the economy, because of the loss of economic output and the workers who lost their income. But since we live in a smoothbrained hellword, this is good for the GDP because the finance company "grows" in value larger than the now dead looted company.
lol. lmao.
imagine buying a device that uses a "proprietary networking protocol" and expecting to be able to use it for more than 2 years
Literally iot as a concept is ruined in my mind lmao. Just seeing the word triggers a Pavlovian response of thinking about all the articles I’ve read like this
IoT May as well mean “future paper weight” to me at this point lol
Yeah I'm a big fan of things that do the thing well, and not 15 things poorly. Doubly so if requires needless connectivity or registration
I think if I was gonna set up any automated stuff around my house I’d just use a raspberry pi and some open source software, at least that way you know the service isn’t gonna get yanked randomly. And you’re not having to share info with random tech companies
My buddy just has tinsys or pis through out his home, pretty much a smart home, even with a servo in his door to control the dead bolt. Works great and will be what I plan for my home.
Tear the walls out, run CAT 5e+ through the whole thing, little lab controlling most of everything, some service panels to get at the boards if need be. Seems a lot more fun and expandable than paying for propritary hardware and software to do it.
it's crazy the hardware businesses will just throw out when they upgrade to new stuff
i've gotten 2 servers and like 10 tiny pcs for free just clearing out a couple storage rooms
the tinys rule, they pull like 20 watts at full chooch and you get hardware video en/decoding since it's a consumer CPU
They did the hardware equivalent of a rugpull, lol.
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Is that pairing mandatory now? That's unfortunate.
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This is why I make sure anything IoT I buy works locally as well. Apple HomeKit makes that easy since any HomeKit device by definition has to work locally. If the manufacturer of my smart switches shuts down tomorrow, they'll still work just fine.
I wanna do a home server with Home Assistant and shit, but every time I look into it just feels so complicated.
Owned lol anybody stupid and rich enough to buy a smart house should be made homeless
If this keeps happening then they get to keep the house but can't actually get anything in it to turn on. No heat, lights, taps, or power.
"can't be hushed here" "can't be hushed here" "can't be hushed here" "can't be hushed here" "can't be hushed here"
I hate IoT devices that need to talk to a server elsewhere.
If I have a lightbulb that turns on via WiFi, it better be talking to my local machine that also generates my web page for smart home shit.
There are ways of making these things work without needing to report to a remote server.
It just gets hard to setup if you want them secure because manually replacing self signed certificates is a pain.
Non-configurable devices are the garbage of the times. Although it baffles me that they couldn't make the platform profitable with that much user share. The platform should have been scalable and operating at a cost proportionate to the amount of usage. I'm assuming users had to pay for a subscription? Edit: another reason to support open device platforms for ALL your devices. If I can't put Linux on it, I don't even want to own it
It's time for you to turn your lights on from your phone!
I HATE IOT I HATE IOT
ahahahahaha this why I will never get an IoT anything. fuck that shit. what's next? needing to sign a proprietary service agreement, pay a subscription fee, and have Gb internet to make toast in my own damn toaster?
life in kkkapitalist america is literally a libertarian meme, and they hate it too.
Got an IoT colored light. Thought it would be so cool. I mean, control your lights FROM YOUR PHONE? Awesome now I don't have to get up any more. What it ended up being was a huge disappointment on an app that took 5 hours to set up and takes 5 minutes to open and needs to be re-initialized every time the power goes out. It burnt out after a year. Don't get me wrong, the idea is cool as hell but stay the hell away from IoT. Even when it's handed the best concept on a silver platter it finds a way to make it unusably shitty. As always: Fuck capitalism.
Putting full web capable hardware inside light bulbs seems extraordinarily wasteful.
It sounds worse than it is. It's an LED so it needs a driver anyway and when it comes to digital components the cost is in the programming, not the parts.
It's still a waste though because of how badly implemented it is. My first thought shouldn't be "Sheesh they should make a light switch for this thing"
not having to get up to turn on the lights....it's called a lamp lol.
also it is terrifying multiple people ITT are actually into this shit, just not with the corporate stamp
didn't y'all learn anyhing from every single movie about smart homes? it doesn't matter if it runs on linux it will EAT YOU
I believe we removed the Stallman emoji for general problematicness, but the man keeps being right. Maybe we can get an amazon echo on fire emoji...
