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		yellow_postit on March 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,50... I don’t know how to measure but my intuition is choice support bias is at play here and from many proponents of “highly connected” homes. HomeKit seems to be nearly as fiddly as roll your own solutions and the cognitive load for additional debugging and layers of complexity seems to outweigh the gains. But these are just two points of view.

acomjean on March 11, 2021 [–]

My brother is a gadget freak. He loves the stuff. But after a couple years his home automation was broken.

After 2 hours of debugging he told me all he could think of is what is wrong with just a plain light switch.

This stuff is great when it works but when it fails it’s just a huge frustrating time suck.

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