That's great, could you please share a link to that repository so that anybody interested could benefit from your work?

Pretty good analogy because health damage from cars don't just come from accidents, which are terrible and tragically visible, but from pollution which is a lot less visible yet kills even more.

Please make it available for others to use and not have to spend resources to do it again, ideally upstream it.

It's two different problems :

• technically speaking TEE and homomorphic encryption have proven to work. You can read public research and results from e.g. NIST or ask a researcher in the domain you trust but basically unless you find a way to break it (which is not impossible theoretically, just nobody has ever done it), it is indeed private.

• in terms of business model, Meta is an advertising company which only happens to rely on tech to sell more ads. The more information they have about someone, the more expensive they can sell ads to their true clients, advertisers. So... one can safely assume that everything AROUND the encryption itself will be used to align with that very profitable business model.

in itself no... but as you typically end up doing more stuff, have things in the background, etc probably a bit.

You can now root all Meta glasses https://github.com/Lumince/singularity/releases/

You can also, without root, use Termux letting you install a local server on the device itself, use adb to start the browser on a WebXR page running on it, etc.

So it's possible to make it work and entirely offline, no Meta account, no app, all this without privacy concerns but that does require to tinker a bit.

I document this a bit on https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/biggu_s_gate/issues/152 so feel free to ask more questions

complexity is certainly very high for those compared to off the shelf stuff.

but it tapers off very quickly, namely setting up the gateway might take half a day, pairing the first device might take an hour... but then the next 10 devices will probably take 10min.

I doubt Steam will provide an official way to piggyback on the Meta store, mostly for legal reasons. I imagine one will, like today, add external games to Steam and instead of using Proton will use Lepton.

It's possible to get all apks of Meta store by sailing the high seas.

I just turned on my office light within Snap, an open source environment to teach kid programming, literally minutes ago. I didn't even know that was possible 1h ago.

As others pointed out the point isn't to replace a switch, the point is to get efficient or creative or both with your home. Of course if your mind can handle a switch with a light bulb, no need to do more.

PS: no data left my home, no WiFi requirement, no third-party proprietary app. Sure most "Smart Home" setup are horrible in many ways, both privacy and security, but it's not because the most popular way sucks that all ways do.

If you mean the Quest you can, once developer mode is enabled, run adb install whatever.apk and it will show up in the UI of the OS.

If you mean the Frame I tried them but didn't install anything. My bet though is that it is the ONE thing Valve actually use to make money, Steam, that will wrap Lepton just like it does with Proton now.

The vast vast majority of physical businesses accept cash, it's mandatory in most countries, and thus are UYC by default. A lot of those, e.g. supermarkets or franchises, operate at scale.

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