Mechanical lock manufacturers are a fucking clown show and the very concept is fundamentally flawed. I don't know if I hate it more than the IoT/cloud bullshit, but it's up there.

I know a guy who works in IT tech support and he always seems to be one of the least tech savvy people that I know.

Vodka, not whiskey. I don't need any extra calories

15+ year sysadmin, I don't have smart home anything cause I don't want more shit to manage when I'm not working.

I barely touch my home network and servers cause I wait til something is obsolete or broken, then I replace with something that will have a long life and set it up to manage itself wherever possible. Some friends have really cool self hosted smart home setups and they like working on it as a hobby, not for me but I enjoy seeing them soldering boards for it and all that.

You avoid smart home crap because they're insecure.

I avoid smart home crap because i'm poor.

We're not the same.

My security is simply not keeping anything important on my computer/phone so if anything goes wrong, it ain't no thing to just wipe the drives and start over from scratch.