It's such a shame. All of this stuff would be useful and amazing in an ideal world, where every company was forced into using interoperable standards, no one was harvesting your personal data, and no one was taking deals to promote specific options for profit.

It’s 2024. Fuck the hype "future tech" from the past: the jetpacks, hoverboards, flying cars etc. Where are all the quality of life improvements technology was supposed to bring?

Like, it's how many years since voice assistants became a thing, and as far as I know the first real useful option for a locally hosted non-data siphoning one is what the Home Assistant project rolled out last year. That still needs a good bunch of hands on tinkering to be useful, and even more to be able to use it outside your home.