Hm, odd, maybe turning something practical - a tool, a utensil, a beverage - into an obsession bordering on religiosity does not a happy camper make? A saw is m

Hm, odd, maybe turning something practical - a tool, a utensil, a beverage - into an obsession bordering on religiosity does not a happy camper make? A saw is meant for sawing, not meant to be idolised or localised or deified. Coffee is meant for drinking, not meant as an alternative for the Japanese tea ceremony. The thing you use to make it is just that, a thing used to make coffee, not some shrine to the gods of Java. In the same vein that program you use to switch on and off the boiler depending on the price of electricity and the output of your solar panels is just that, a thing meant to save money and make life easier. Yes, I have some 'home automation' around the farm, in my case based on OpenHAB. I use it for the aforementioned purpose as well as for making it possible to remote control electric fence chargers and lights. No silly sensors for air quality or CO2 because I don't see the use. It is a bit like the early Linux desktop installations with an overabundance of monitors for everything going on in and around the machine, maybe fun to configure and run for a week or so but after that you'd just get rid of 95% of the xperf, xosview, conky, gkrellm, ... guff and settle on a few simple and unobtrusive cpu/memory/storage/network monitors and be done with it. 10 years later you'll still be running the same configuration, now as natural as the dials on a dashboard.