I tried, I couldnt take it. Between doing things the most botched way possible and spending the most money possible (My 4 billion $$$$ home theater system clickbait) I couldnt take it anymore. Its a low form of scam / con when you use your home renovation as a tax writeoff and "content".
LTT is like 95% entertainment 5% actually somewhat informative.
In terms of the deduction, I doubt he’s committing actual tax fraud if for no other reason than he’s so public a figure.
Christmas/holiday lights, mood lighting, under counter lighting, all that is controlled by automation.
Now, primary lighting for the room, there's a switch on the wall for that.
It is still adding one extra component that could fail, but it was at least immune to "controller died, nothing works" problem.
The cloud is always someone else's computer, the cloud always costs someone $, and over time, there will be less incentive to provide it.
As for the legality, when you take stuff that you bought for the company and later use it for personal things, you need to "pay" the company for it, you can't just write if off.
I loved the idea of running my PC elsewhere in the house, so I looked up both the USB and Thunderbolt fiber solutions he recommended.
$800.
His previous one was flagged by anti-cheat due to it being VM-based.