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COVID was easy mode and we (Americans at the very least) failed. If we can’t handle something that’s highly infectious with a pretty low death rate we’re definitely not going to handle highly infectious + high mortality rate without a lot of people dying first and even then, it’ll still be “left wing propaganda”, I’m sure

Lisa needs measles!

A lot of people don’t have a fully offline setup and still have at least some devices that talk to the cloud. If that’s the case, if they make any changes, HA has to also update in response to those changes, so they really can’t treat it as an ‘appliance’ that can just sit there.

HA devs are also pretty frequently updating HA to make it better (better dashboards, better methods to create automations, etc…) and if you update at least every couple of months you’ll be able to adapt pretty easily.

Mine will largely function without internet, at least it will for anything needed, but does still need WiFi, but, I still keep it up to date. They’re also constantly updating and adding services that it can tie into, so, keeping up to date adds a lot of features you may not have even known you needed/wanted.

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