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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LIDL is selling a bunch of "smart" crap this week including a "smart" kettle. According to the blurb "Can be linked to the Lidl Smart Home System using your WiFi connection". And I'm thinking yeah and what possible reason ever would I have for needing that? And the same is true for most smart products.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Actually, having hot water for tea or coffee ready when you wake up is one of the few really good use cases.

[–] arc@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Only if you remembered to put water in it and happen to want hot water at exactly the same time. Besides, a normal kettle boils in a minute so it is hardly difficult to just flick the switch on the kettle on when needed. Certainly less effort than fiddling with some app.

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

did anyone actually go to the store and put a bunch of these in the cart?

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