Mastodon Feed: Post

Mastodon Feed

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
feliks@chaos.social ("feliks✨") wrote:

Meme image of a person standing indoors wearing a white VR headset and holding VR controllers. Large white outlined text over the image reads: The unspoken 8-step pipeline of "just buying a smart bulb" 1. Buy a $15 Wi-Fi bulb so you don't have to stand up to hit the switch. 2. Realize the proprietary app sucks. Install Home Assistant on an old Raspberry Pi. 3. The SD card corrupts. Buy a refurbished Dell enterprise server and install a Proxmox hypervisor. 4. You need secure remote access. Spend 14 hours configuring Cloudflare Tunnels and an Nginx reverse proxy. 5. Wi-Fi latency is unacceptable. Replace every switch in the house with Zigbee relays flashed with custom firmware. 6. Write a 400-line YAML script to fade the bathroom light on, but only if your phone's GPS is within 50 feet. 7. The MQTT broker runs out of memory while you are on a business trip. 8. Your partner sits in absolute darkness for three days because they don't know how to SSH into the Docker container to restart the lighting daemon. Follow for more over-engineered tech trauma.