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What Online Gaming Co-op Teaches About Shared Smart Home Control
A good co-op game lets several people act at once without descending into chaos, because everyone has their own controls, their...
Share a game console and the first thing you set up is separate save slots, so one person's progress never overwrites another's. A smart home shared by several people needs the same idea in the form of user profiles.
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A good co-op game lets several people act at once without descending into chaos, because everyone has their own controls, their...
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Games learned long ago that one fixed setting does not suit everyone or every moment, so they offer difficulty modes you switch...
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A smart home that pings you about everything quickly teaches you to ignore it, which defeats the entire point.
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A gaming setup is one of the hungriest things in a modern home, and that makes it an ideal teacher.
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Gaming sales seasons and smart home sales seasons overlap almost perfectly.
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A home automation is a prediction written down. When I set the hallway light to turn on at sunset, I am predicting that someone...
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.