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I will be the last person to not have a smart home. There will be a banner over the doorway: "Welcome to Stupid House".
There will be a small cover charge.
You can have a privacy-first smart home. I have. I run Home Assistant in a docker container. No external services/plugins. My smart doorbell streams to my local nvr. If my internet is down, everything keeps working. And it's not even that hard anymore. It's become a lot easier over the last 2-3 years. Still not for non-techie users, but a lot better.
Teach me your ways please! Setting up a Home Assistant seems like such a daunting task. I'm stalling converting my devices into it. Any tips for a (home assistant) beginner?
Start with a Raspberry Pi and just follow the docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/
That's the easy way. I did it the hard way, but that's because I run on on a big dedicated home server together with a dozen other services.