Oh absolutely, my tinfoil hat gets real itchy with devices like this - even with the levels of sanity that you’ve gone through I couldn’t install one on my non existent garage.
My cameras are reolink - running on their own vlan with no internet access. I even host my own time servers for them 😅 Cameras use a local google coral for object / facial recognition and send me alerts via home assistant when I’m not home. They are powered by a POE switch in my rack which has a stupidly large UPS.
My AC have their OEM wifi dongles replaced with ESP32 devices which I manage, my access points run OpenWRT - same with my router.
Any smart globe in my house runs via my own ZigBee network - not the OEMs dongle, same with motion sensors and door sensors.
All the small things I do won’t stop a brick coming through one of my windows and someone stepping through the hole they’ve just made.
Ehh that sounds horrible to me. A simple toggle that grants access to your house, in the hands of an external company doesn’t fill me with joy.
I’m sure the convenience is nice however it’s been proven time and time again that security is an afterthought for many companies, especially when it’s their customers security.
My Ender 3 V3 SE is happily printing ABS currently with not much of a chamber, more two lack tables with some printed parts and some half finished walls. Yet to print ASA but I’m confident my jank is upto it.
Admittedly the AMS made me interested, I’ll have to look over Qidi’s range.
Nix is a scary place…
Join us.
Honestly became obsessed with NixOS last year and haven’t turned back, I’m not much into the gaming side of things these days but installing steam and running a few games has never been easier.
Old mate Elon space x x x