As a tech person, I try to do have a lot of smart devices that I can self host, try to use home assisntat, bridges to my own NAS, have some rpi for my own DNS filter (with pi-hole)

My TV is offline while I am using a Apple TV box for streaming

And yeah some stuff is unnecessary. I don’t have a smart fridge, but I have an old iPad with a custom home assistant dashboard in my kitchen

This “purism” is the reason why they keep winning. Letting only them using the most powerful tech humanity ever made is just like not voting for Harris because of Gaza. Look the mess we are now. How much we need to lose to stop this purism?

Depends on the country, only on free counties, in other places when some people commented certain death and they were sent to jail, lost visas… so I would be afraid to say anything when this happen, will be only quiet in my corner waiting to get democracy back.