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Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years (www.theverge.com)
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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sounds like a skill issue.

I'm just a dumb ol trucker with an Alabama public school education.

I managed to set it up with no issues.

And for the record, it doesn't do "random" updates unless you tell it to.

So why were you updating anything that was working? Were you using cheap-ass crap that needed a cloud connection?

Don't blame HA for your choice in gear.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 21 hours ago

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.