THE way to go. But think through your system first. My house has radio penetration issues, so I have a mix of zwave and insteon. I prefer the zwave, but you just can't stop an insteon signal. Home assistant makes it simple to have a zwave switch also control an insteon device and vice versa.
First: Don't get cheap bulbs. Feit is bad. Check the HA site for compatibility.
Also, Do you have occasional power outages, no matter how small? Some bulbs will reset and/or go into a flashing pairing mode. It can be awkward if you have to unscrew the bulb to get it back online. Again, get the best possible bulbs.
FWIW, I have found it to be better to use smart plugs for lamps and smart switches when possible/needed.
I pointed to your logical fallacy. Do you see how?
Then you made an ad hominem.
All you've demonstrated is your desire to muddy the water.
Would you believe that I see the Luddites had a valid point? The mills were being irresponsible by taking a pure capitalist approach without any social awareness? My company builds more public power infrastructure than it uses, leaving the local community with more electrical capacity than before. Generally by a factor of 2. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. We don't build open loop cooling. We don't build near residential areas. We believe that being irresponsible is not an option. Do we make the news? Of course not, that story doesn't sell.
And good for you for minimizing your carbon footprint, but it's still "fuck humans" in general.
We both see that there are large ongoing issues, with bad actors. Elon spending a gazillion dollars for zero cash return is a symptom of his moral destitution, not the usefulness of AI. However painting the world with a broad brush does nothing for improving the world. Bad behavior needs to be punished, while promoting the good.
That's still limited to LLMs. A lot of work being done is not even in any language. It speaks election orbitals and bonding energy. This is used for biomolecular and pharma purposes.
Some folks dislike AI but use other justifications to hate on them.
Some folks are accelerationists at all costs.
Some read about the criminals in the field (xai) and assume that everyone is like that.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
All of those things are foam on the water, the leftover gpu cycles after the bills are paid. No one is spending this kind of money on cat videos.
Our customers are doing biochem/pharma work. Mega-multivariable analysis. There is a big push for a model that can control the innards of a fusion reactor in realtime.
My place uses very clean diesel generators. The sound level is below 65 DB with all the generators running - which only happens during an outage. And that's 10 feet away.
The cooling is fully closed loop. A toilet uses more water a day than the 120,000 sqft DC used in a year.
One square foot of parking lot generates 80 watts of heat in the summer sun. A Walmart parking lot is approximately equivalent to 20 megawatts of heat.
Feather blades are a marvel. Significantly sharper than alternatives. Astra is really nice, and a lot more forgiving, but for raw sharpness feather is king. Just be careful.