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The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
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  • Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
  • The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
  • Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.
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[-] AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's all Alexa and Google have on home assistant.

That seems like a massive thing though. If the average Joe can’t even install the product, then it doesn’t matter if it has way more features than its competitors.

[-] nexusband@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

If average joe can't be assed to to some research, the product isn't for average joe and that's a good thing. Because designing a product for average joe has a lot of drawbacks.

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