I think the Nest smoke detectors are overengineered pieces of shit. The dumb whitebox kind you buy from Walmart are well understood, you know where you are. If

I think the Nest smoke detectors are overengineered pieces of shit. The dumb whitebox kind you buy from Walmart are well understood, you know where you are. If any one goes off at random at night you push the silencer button, throw the thing out and replace it for very cheap. But they won't turn the whole house into Pandaemonium and tempt you to fetch the sledgehammer for an exorcism. It's another instance of Chesterton's Fence.