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You can make all your smartass sassy comments about those cavemen using $30 thermostats, but until the industry behind your spiffy $300 smart thermostat is forc
by chipotle_coyote 7y ago
You can make all your smartass sassy comments about those cavemen using $30 thermostats, but until the industry behind your spiffy $300 smart thermostat is forced to get its act together, you are way, way more likely than the cavemen to wake up to a dead climate control system because you missed the "Thank you for going on our wonderful journey with us, your thermostat is now a paperweight" email your manufacturer sent three months ago.
Observing that this is a problem with the smart home industry in its current state is not some kind of crazy Luddite "you kids with your fancy calculators and automatic transmissions" ranting.
- jnordwick 7y agosaying that there are issues around maintenance is not a luddite argument, and i even grant that this is a problem. the real luddite argument i keep seeing this supposed tech site are: stereos should have 2 wire and thats it, that there is no reason you could want to network all these gadgets together, it may break right when you need it (literally applicable to everything), etc. those are just all "im scare of tech and change" arguments that have been about almost every new device created.