Marco Arment

You're really selling Fire Island well.

It's uninhabitable in the winter.

Even if you wanted to be there, you can't get there.

People treat private property like their own public utilities.

You're really doing a bang-up job of selling me on Fire Island.

Oh, oh, I misunderstood.

Oh, no.

I really want to get one for our house just on principle, but they're surprisingly expensive.

Yes, very much so.

And it also has extremely long range.

Now, the canonical example for me is I have a contact sensor on my mailbox, as we've spoken about many times.

And granted, my mailbox is, I don't know, 10, 15 meters from the house or yards, if you will.

It's not that far, but I have one of these sensors, you know, inside a metal box, and it's beaming...

uh, beaming the, the open and close signal all the way into the house.

And I've, I've understood that in perfect conditions, like basically out almost outdoors or outdoors, these things can go upwards of like a mile.

They can work astonishingly long ways in really good conditions.

No, it's not great, but it works.

However, there's really robust home assistant integrations if you're one of those dorks like me.

And you do need to get a hub, which is like $40 or $50.

And reliable.