I’m just curious, what if I’d use my pi-hole to block all connections from/to China on my home network. I have a good bit of automation in place, but mostly western solutions, yet still I wouldn’t be surprised if they called China. Have any of you tried this kind of experiment? Is it even possible to block? What gone down?
You could also go the extra step, and only have local automations in the home :) home assistant + choosing products well enables total local smarthome stuff. Although I don’t have a robot vacuum.
All my services are self hosted too. Obviously there are limitations: I don’t have fancy voice assistants like Alexa of the likes. But on the flip side I don’t have spies in the house (well, there are… The android phones, and the windows and Mac computers…)