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   eri :floofMischief: (eri@mk.moth.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 21:05:21 JST eri :floofMischief:

   99% of smart home crap just feels like
   
   why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates
   why does it need updates? because it's connected to the internet

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 21:05:20 JST SuperDicq

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     @eri@mk.moth.zone Or worse, so they can downgrade your experience over time so you will buy new products quicker.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:31:21 JST SuperDicq

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     @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone I don't have any smarthome shit, not even local. My house has physical light switches and devices I turn on using buttons.

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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:31:23 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     @SuperDicq @eri my approach is local-only or bust. Most of my stuff is zigbee
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     @Pi_rat@shitposter.world @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone Yes, and there's way more effective ways to destroy a machine.

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 03:55:02 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @hj @eri I know you disagree about guns
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     @Pi_rat@shitposter.world @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone And yes about guns, I don't think anyone should own a gun. Police shouldn't have guns either.

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 04:15:54 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @hj @eri What about katanas?
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     @Pi_rat@shitposter.world @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone Not a fan either, but I think it's sort of acceptable because you can't kill someone with it from really far away, and you also can't easily commit mass murder with it, like you can with a gun.

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     • Pi_rat

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone @Pi_rat@shitposter.world No, everything you're saying is incorrect.
     
     If you have a proper democratic government that respects the people, you don't need home defense against the government. The government should be there for everyone's benefit.
     
     It also definitely takes a lot more skill to commit murder with a sword than it does with a gun. Any mentally ill kid can shoot up a school if you give them an AR15.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 19:38:58 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @hj @eri @Pi_rat Banning guns is not going to stop criminals from getting guns, as those are too easy to handcraft and import.
     
     99.9999% of people are not mass murderers, but almost all governments are - thus if you want to ban guns, the government should be first.
     
     Governments should not have guns, but it appears that individuals need a large collection of weapons, including swords, firearms (including a tripod machine gun), clay-mores and nuclear bombs (as that would be barely adequate home defence against the government).
     
     It takes a similar amount of skill to commit mass murder with a sword than a gun.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:00:34 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone @Pi_rat@shitposter.world I said mass murder. It's easy to incompetently swing a sword at someone, but after you hit one person everyone else will run away.
     
     With a gun however, you can easily kill multiple people back to back. Even without changing magazines, an AR15 has typically 30 bullets in it, and assuming even most bullets miss their target you can easily kill 4-5 people with that if you fire at a crowd.
     
     You can't pretend kids will immediately drop their gun from recoil, the recoil is not that bad. School shootings with multiple casualties happen almost every day in that shithole called America.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:00:37 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @hj @eri @Pi_rat >If you have a proper democratic government that respects the people, you don't need home defense against the government.
     Unfortunately, that doesn't happen unless there is the possibility of consequences if the government does not serve the people.
     
     >It also definitely takes a lot more skill to commit murder with a sword than it does with a gun.
     Even a pathetic sword swing is likely to kill and doing so is easier than using a rifle.
     
     To use a rifle you need to load it, adopt a competent grip, aim and fire on target, not get spooked by the supersonic blast, handle the recoil and also change mags once you're out of ammo (and also, if you have limited magazines, loading them is difficult, let alone speed loading them).
     
     You can give a mentally ill kid a sword and it would be easy for that kid to commit murder.
     
     An unloaded AR-15 would be far less harmful in the hands of a mentally ill kid than a sword - as all it could be used for is a blunt weapon.
     
     AR-15's are loaded in different calibers - for example .22, .223 or .308 - assuming a loaded .223, without practice, I reckon a mentally ill kid handed a .223 AR-15 could murder one person if they don't miss and then the kid will likely drop the rifle due to the unexpected recoil.
     
     Unlike a sword, which is mostly silent, the supersonic blast makes it quite clear what's happening.
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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone @Pi_rat@shitposter.world Basically you can outrun someone with a sword, but you can't outrun a bullet.

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone @Pi_rat@shitposter.world Also people should definitely also not be allowed to carry around swords either. But the argument was if swords were less bad and yes they are.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:06:21 JST SuperDicq

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     @Pi_rat@shitposter.world @hj@shigusegubu.club @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @eri@mk.moth.zone The Onion says it the best "There was no way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens"

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:06:22 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @hj @Suiseiseki @eri
     >shithole called America
     KEK
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:26:35 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone @Pi_rat@shitposter.world Pretending guns actually take complex skills to operate and that a teenager couldn't do it is a giant cope dude.
     
     Guns are literally designed to make killing people as easy as possible, that's their business model.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:26:37 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @hj @eri @Pi_rat >but after you hit one person everyone else will run away.
     Only people in the immediate area will likely notice and run away when it comes to a sword - while a gun has an auditory warning that travels quite far.
     
     >Even without changing magazines, an AR15 has typically 30 bullets in it,
     That's an extended mag, typically magazines are 10-15 rounds.
     
     Loading rounds into even a 10 round magazine alone takes quite a bit of strength - a child would have a lot of difficulty doing so.
     
     Firing 30 rounds out of a semi-automatic takes skill - if you have a limp hold, the mechanism is likely to jam in <10 rounds and will not cycle again until the jam is cleared.
     
     >you can easily kill 4-5 people with that if you fire at a crowd.
     You could easily kill 4-5 people swinging a sword randomly into a crowd.
     
     >School shootings with multiple casualties happen almost every day in that shithole called America.
     That is in fact not true - such is calculated from counting gang violence in a street that is of some proximity to a school and retards blowing their balls off by mistake in a school, as a school shooting.
     
     Here is a more accurate list of a school shootings; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)?useskin=monobook
     
     As far as I can tell, most of the time a kid had a gun, usually no murder was successful, or only one was.
     
     574 deaths in 24 years is too many, but such is not a leading cause of schoolchildren deaths in the USA.
     
     Maybe school stabbings could be worse (stabbings happen a lot in the USA), but those don't seem to be reported.
     
     Only governments are any good at committing massacres at schools; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_massacres_by_death_toll?useskin=monobook
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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:50:50 JST Rich Felker

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     @twinkle @eri The target market is people who believe themselves above touching a broom.

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     🩷 Stella Sparkles 🐭 (twinkle@sweet.succubi.services)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jan-2026 20:50:51 JST 🩷 Stella Sparkles 🐭

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     @eri i think it’s cool conceptually that you can do bullshit with your appliances and stuff but like the lights in my place barely even function properly so like i feel like there’s a certain dissonance here in terms of, Privilege

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     @eri i once read an article about affordable roombas or whatever it’s called and i was like, like okay i was interested in the tech behind all that but the last good invention for house cleaning is the fucking vacuum and i have a 20 dollars portable one. shit ain’t ever gonna beat that. there’s also the broom.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 16-Jan-2026 01:38:49 JST SuperDicq

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     @k3fnb@mastodon.radio @hj@shigusegubu.club @eri@mk.moth.zone Yes, I personally believe it is quite absurd as well. It is a lot of work to automate something that takes a second. I'd rather spend time automating things that save me a little bit more time than that.

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     Eric K3FNB (they/them) (k3fnb@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 16-Jan-2026 01:38:55 JST Eric K3FNB (they/them)

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     @SuperDicq @hj @eri I'm currently in free fall down a Home Assistant rabbit hole.

     I'm planning on added precense sensors all over the house to turn off the lights when no one is in the room.

     If I stop for a second and think about it, it all feels a bit absured because we can just flip a switch on the wall like we always have.

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     @hj@shigusegubu.club @k3fnb@mastodon.radio @eri@mk.moth.zone You can have those without smart functionality as well. I have a bunch of lights that use very simple RF remotes, no apps.

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     @SuperDicq @k3fnb @eri having colored disco lights for fridey night is nice
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     @hj@shigusegubu.club @k3fnb@mastodon.radio @eri@mk.moth.zone No, it isn't. It requires computers. It's using WiFi and Bluetooth which usually requires proprietary firmware, especially on devices like the ESP32 which is popular for these types of devices. RF remotes don't have software whatsoever.
     
     Also Zigbee is two way communication. RF signals are one way, which reduces complexity by a lot.

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     @SuperDicq @k3fnb @eri zigbee is basically slightly more complicated RF
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     @hj@shigusegubu.club @k3fnb@mastodon.radio @eri@mk.moth.zone Proprietary software on read only hardware that can't be changed isn't a freedom issue.
     
     Also there's many ways to capture RF signals and replay them, in case you are afraid of losing a remote. Never happened to me though.
     
     Also I believe most things I own aren't even RF, they are IR.

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     @SuperDicq @k3fnb @eri RF remotes use proprietary protocol by design and its own proprietary chips/firmwares, also losing/breaking remote kills the feature. Zigbee uses 2.4G but it isn't wifi/bluetooth, but its own open protocol (unlike z-wave which is proprietary).