Same. The fact they're shoving AI into it and expanding it to providers who don't have privacy as a guiding principle is a key reason I'm sitting on a 14 Pro still, and why I'm exploring local alternatives with Home Assistant.
Besides, we just need to set verbal timers and control music. We don't need a full-blown verbal Oracle.
Home Assistant is indeed quite nice and relatively simple to set up with the Docker images provided by the team. Device setup on iOS was a little inconsistent, but has been rock solid for over a year. Check out Homebridge as well. I run both.
Im curious what the threat model is that you're protecting against
By disabling Apple "Intelligence" you bypass the risk of your prompts going to OpenAI.
They’re hosting their own Gemini, so they aren’t sacrificing to Google’s standards even if using their technology.