I use the *arr suite to manage things for me. There’s lidarr for music, radarr for movies, sonarr for TV, readarr for ebooks, bazarr for subtitles, and prowlarr to manage trackers/usenet.

My hobby is designing smart home systems and building my own smart devices, as well as being a cyber security expert in my day job, so I’m actually a primary source.

Plus, don’t rely on strangers on the internet to spoon feed you sources. It’s pretty easy to do your own research (which is how I learned what I know. If I’m dubious of a claim, I research it myself, which is why I possess the wealth of knowledge I do.

But you can easily find the security risks posed by Tuya with light googling.

All of the cheap Chinese devices are Tuya, which is a Chinese company which iirc the CCP controls.

The only reason you should buy a Tuya device is if you’re going up flash it with an open source firmware.

Throw those bulbs away. They’re likely Tuya bulbs, and everything Tuya is a major security vulnerability. Worse than TikTok

Go with TP-Link. Their products work well, work with home kit, and work with things like home assistant. They’re also creating matter devices now.

Also, I’d recommend getting a smart light switch instead of a smart bulb since the Led controller in the bulb is what will fail first. But, I get that this isn’t an option for a lamp, or if your overhead light and fan are tied together.

For the lamp, a smart outlet would work, and for the fan you can probably rig up a Shelly relay at the fan so you don’t have to do a drop for the fan control cable (if it has that capability).

That’s only because that light has been running non-stop, and at very low power. It’s the on/off cycles that kills the filament.

Plus, the whole “they used to make stuff to last” thing is just survivorship bias. They absolutely made garbage products in the past, but those didn’t survive.

Plus, most things like appliances were major purchases. People today don’t want to/can’t drop the equivalent of $400 on a toaster or $3k on a washing machine.

Horseshoe crabs. Unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.

A lot of department stores will have a big and tall section shoved in a corner somewhere, but I usually have to order my actual size online after trying on the regular sizes.

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That’s just for the right lens, too.

It’s always been the case when buying games period.

And the games actually go on sale

Sharing isn’t the issue. The emulator was profiting from it.

If I copied your house key and sold it, would that be alright?

For the record, I support emulation, but I don’t lie to myself that it’s morally defensible.

The key wasn’t used in a book or in the hex values for a flag. That’s like saying the formula for Coke can’t be proprietary because it could be put in a book.

Software can absolutely be proprietary, and that key is part of the software.

The emulator they shut down was being sold for a profit. They haven’t gone after Dolphin, which is free.

They’re not bogus. The emulator that shut down were selling a product using a proprietary encryption key owned by Nintendo.

That’s why Dolphin still exists.

Emulation is perfectly legal if you own the game.

Lame, come back when it’s running doom

That’s like responding with, “I don’t know, I bought it as a gift,” to Amazon product questions.

That’s why you should scan every torrent download before opening the files.

With vinegar or some other descaler