&quot;My guess is that almost everyone reading this forum spends a shitload of money buying techno gadgets for reasons beyond &quot;it saves me money.&quot;&quot;<p>My guess would be that the HN reader is more discerning and sophisticated than that.<p>I am guessing that a lot of HN readers are considering questions like:<p>- how many different sources of data egress do I want in my home ?  (as few as possible)<p>- how many different wireless network topologies should be running, and overlayed, on my home ?  (perhaps zero, other than wifi and cellular)<p>- how fragile should my appliances be to things like DoS, firmware compatibility, licensing, network connectivity, etc. ?  (not fragile at all)<p>Think of your current interactions with your printer.  Think of how often that works flawlessly and how often it doesn&#x27;t and think of the underlying business models and network models that make it so (god-damned) fragile and user-hostile.  Now imagine <i>everything</i> works like this.  That&#x27;s the Internet of Things.  I suspect many HN readers are quite wary of it ...