I connected my AC directly to my desktop. I can't be sure it isn't also phoning home, but I know I am controlling it without a remote server. You are doing a "

I connected my AC directly to my desktop. I can't be sure it isn't also phoning home, but I know I am controlling it without a remote server. You are doing a "there can only be one binding constraint" analysis, and I don't think that is get. Yes, a lot of incumbents want client-server only, but IPv4 still gives them power enforcing the status quo. If we had IPv6 everywhere, they would need to try harder to enforce it, and we would have to try less hard to change it.