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[–] • 9 pts

Buy everything you can that is not connected to the internet.

Hell cars steering wheels are no longer physically connected to the front wheels.

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Not only, your car has telemetry being sent to a server somewhere.

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And don't get smug thinking this only affects Teslas or other electric cars. GM pioneered this shit in the '90s and even a Toyota Corolla has it now. There are ways to disable it without making the ECM angry.

[–] • 0 pt

I tried building a faraday cage around the antenna and was abruptly surprised when it didn't work. I hit the emergency button, saw it call the dispatcher. Hung up. Mr. Police officer came a few minutes later. Oops!

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Well, they chose to opt-in to something without reading it.

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That's the amazing thing here - that's the whole point of this program. They'll reduce your major energy consumption devices usage during peak times. I'll bet they signed up for it without even getting any kind of management discount.

My grandmother used to be enrolled in such a program, back when the power company would stick a small box on your water heater that received a low-speed data packet over power lines. It would shut the water heater off in times of peak energy demand. That normally happened during times you weren't going to be using a lot of hot water - 5PM on a -10F day, or at 3PM on one of those scorchers in the summer. You just had to be aware of it. In return, you received a discount on service and they would service the heater at their expense if it broke. Pretty good deal for a 90 year old lady.

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They saw the word "discount" and never considered any ramifications about it. Later when the discount features kick in they have buyers remorse.

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So you mean I can get a bunch of money knocked off my power bill by installing a dummy thermostat that controls nothing and letting the power company play with the controls remotely?

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The discount on the water heater thing wasn't a whole lot, the benefit came from the maintenance they did to the unit as a whole. I have no idea how the Texas thing works, but it kind of sounds like you can do that.

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Are you sure it's opt-in? In California they require manufacturers of "smart" occupant-controlled thermostats to grant access to consumers' thermostats in a "power emergency" to allow the state to decide what temperature you are allowed to have your home set.

See https://www.energy.ca.gov/rules-and-regulations/building-energy-efficiency/manufacturer-certification-building-equipment-7

[–] • 4 pts

Ahahahahah. I fucking knew shit like this would happen.

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Brandon English obviously can't read English, because it was an opt-in program. The retard did what retards do and bought a "smart" thermostat, intentionally enrolled it into his electricity service provider's program without understanding what it does, and then has the audacity to complain about his own retardation.

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Only steers and queers come from Texas.

They bend over for the entire Woke Globalist program including acting as the welcome mat for the 3rd World Hordes and letting the Globalists dismantle their cheap and reliable energy producing infrastructure and set up the "Green" austerity energy rationing system.

Texans are a bunch of faggots.

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Side note, if you wake in a sweat at 78 conditioned degrees, you’re probably fat

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almost 26c is gonna be gay if you're under a blanket.

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is one of the retards who is adjusting thermostats on the assumption that other climate conditions have no effect on how temperature is perceived.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Nah, mate. Some of us like to wrap ourselves in big comfortable blankets. Would hope for a consistent temperature throughout the night.

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Dude, 78 is hot inside and I live where 115°F isn't unusual. Inside doesn't have breeezes.

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Maybe you should have the dehumidifier section of your AC looked at? To be fair my brick house is shielded by trees, so the hundred degree days this week still didn’t tax my AC. I was banging on fat people, not you swamp cooler retards.

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There's no separate section for dehumidification. Nobody installs stuff that way in the west. However, I can't stand any humidity above around 45% so I do keep it below that at all times with a separate dehumidifier if needed.

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“I wouldn’t want anybody else controlling my things for me.”

Why the fuck did he get a "smart" thermostat? Don't these idiots care about anything other than convenience? I bet this faggot watches Linus Tech Tips or some other faggotry.

When will people realize that just because something is sold and marketed as "smart," that it doesn't make it smart?

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I wouldn't even get a smart refrigerator in this day and age. Can you image having your food held hostage because of wrong think ? Appliances should not have wireless or internet capabilities.

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Way back when these first started coming out I though it was a great idea ... because I didn't understand how jewed the implementation was. A WiFi thermostat, I thought, just meant you connect it to your WiFi and then devices on the LAN can control the thermostat. So I get it home and start reading the instructions. "What do you mean I have to create an account on Honeywell's web site and agree to some privacy policy that has no legal meaning and can be arbitrarily changed at any time? Fuck that shit." Back to the store it went. Still waiting for someone to make WiFi shit that doesn't need WAN access to work. If I want to control it from outside my LAN I'll use my VPN, thanks.

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Most people don't read it closely enough to understand what they bought. Anything with smart in the description just means you don't own it.

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This is a non-story. The idiot signed up for a program that allows his energy use to be adjusted in exchange for a sweepstakes entry.

"English appears to have enrolled the thermostat, operated by the company EnergyHub, in a program known as “Smart Savers Texas,” KHOU 11 notes. The program, which customers have to opt-into, allows power companies to remotely adjust thermostats when energy demands are high in exchange for an entry into a sweepstakes. Other power companies have been known to offer customers reduced billing costs for entering similar programs."

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DTE does this in Michigan. My parents were only too happy to oblige. Don't let them install that shit in your house! Don't opt in!

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When EVs become the norm, there will be power problems everywhere, electricity rates will skyrocket.

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Such devices are called smart, but buying them means you're dumb.

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To come : Goldberg and Herveystein playing with your air purifier and enabling carbon monoxyde release into your room when you be a bad goy on social media.

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