I have smart thermostats. I block 100% of their traffic.

Why?

One winter I woke up to my house being not 70, but 50. BOTH of my units had stalled after a botched firmware update.

I can’t trust a multi-billion to fuck my house up while I sleep. not once, not twice.

now they are nice glowing thermostats I can see in the dark that my power company paid for.

couldn’t be happier since cutting them off.

I think what you’re failing to understand is that newer HVAC units are designed to be run in a specific way. if you disregard that, and run it like a unit from the 1980s you will halve the life of the unit.

yes, most of the “brains” are on the unit itself but without proper “eyes” the brains are useless.

I’m not even an HVAC tech but I’ve worked on them enough to know it’s a dumb idea to just replace your thermostat with “a raspberry pi and a bunch of 24v relays”. there’s just too much risk of things to go terribly wrong and multiple people literally die.

my high efficiency HVAC unit would like a word with you.

what you’re saying is basically you can replace anything with a RPI. yes, in theory, you are correct. but, unfortunately for you, there are nuances that you didn’t take into account. such as, startup/shutdown procedures, cool down cycles, heat pumps, dual compression ac units, etc.

it’s not that they don’t value your time, it’s that they value security compliance checklists over productivity.

in the same boat myself. Told them the same. practicality begged them to allow me to use docker otherwise tasks would balloon from an hour to complete to literal days.

after two weeks of discussion they finally relented. Probably cost the company $50-70k in those two weeks in salaries alone when you include the entire dev team, IT, security, compliance, and mgmt.

it’s amazing that this shitshow called capitalism is still functioning.

shop smart! shop S-Mart!

Lucky for me my parents were both “I didn’t save anything for retirement, my kids will take care of me when I’m older”

man I feel that. It’s like raising a teenager.

“don’t do that, it’ll infect your PC.”

“don’t buy from there your card info will be stolen.”

“no, Biden isn’t going to round us up into camps.”

“now we have to call and get you a new debit card.”

“please don’t buy so much junk food…why? because you have diabetes.”

so what crime would Thompson be charged with?

oh? no crimes were committed you say?

preposterous! his executive actions were costing thousands of American’s their lives!

that’s not illegal? …because his support group in the DOJ won’t ever make corporations take responsibility for killing people?

well…what do you get when you oppress citizens and ensure they have no legal way to stop you?

I have a big kitchen (like 150sqft). over Thanksgiving, 15 people stood in my kitchen as my wife and I tried to finish the food.

we had to keep asking people to move just so we could get to the things we needed.

you would think after asking them to move for the third time they would leave. perhaps after the fourth time? nah.

people are dumb.

sometimes I think God is just some dude playing a sim game then had to go afk to take a rancid shit and forgot to pause us.

just watch this.

n word trigger btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsIEAipTNbE

imo legalizing sex workers as sex therapists would not only be a boon to revenue, but would also help many individuals get the help they need.

the funny thing about Sicilians…

it’s not political because politics shouldn’t have anything to do with healthcare.

tell that to the $800 of copper running through my walls.

just call it cgpt for short

Computer Generated Partial Truths

explain how “Luigi” is CSAM.

also, “parenthood”.