Many smart lights are not a security vulnerability. Get those that connect to a local only hub and or if you need access away from home for whatever reason, get HomeKit enabled devices.
Plus, even if remote access could happen, it’s not even a security vulnerability to have a stranger turn on my lights. I just flip the switch off.
I’m sitting here with my red and blue soft lighting in the evenings watching tv and playing games. It’s the perfect lighting.



















I own a free oracle cloud virtual instance because it was free and better than every other free service. 100% dedicated VI, 4Gbps network bandwidth, 4CPUs at around 2.5GHz, 24GB RAM, and 200GB. All free. And no possible way to ever go over since those are static when I created the instance.
This is for a personal project that I didn’t want hosted on my home server to expose to the open internet.
I justify using oracle because I’m technically costing them money with no downsides for me.
Fuck Oracle’s ownership though.