Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Never connect a device to the internet when there’s an analog optionCarl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.comWe're Google, and we're going to brick your perfectly functional thermostat after buying the company that made it. 715441
drama @withdrama.bsky.social · 10/07/2025ever since we bought this house the American Standard thermostat has been howling about not being connected to the internet and oh buddy you never fucking will 160
GreeeEEEEEeedo 🇺🇦 🦉🦉🦅🦅 @natteringnaybob.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Yeah, we pay extra to not have a "smart" electric meter 010
wweiss53.bsky.social @wweiss53.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Honeywell mercury/sping round thermostat still going strong after 40 years. 130
greenlightening.bsky.social @greenlightening.bsky.social · 10/07/2025We could also have decent smart devices that just connect to a home INTRAnet and aren’t spyware. Companies just don’t want to make that. 000
Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Part of the reason I'm still driving a car from 2009. 000