Hackers' Pub

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org

12/8/2025, 4:00:31 AM

Public

I could totally go around setting up little Mini PCs and homeassistant and thermostats and lights and such for people. But, how much would a typical person actually pay for such things? Like if I did 5 a month and made $1000 profit above cost of materials I could do that as a nice occasional gig not requiring full time and it might be worthwhile. But given the material cost of probably $500-1000 you'd have to be willing to do $1500-2000 for a privacy oriented home automation setup and I'm

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