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0 pointsdont__panic3y ago0 comments

Not to mention the fact that IoT consumes lots of unnecessary power and stuff like Nest that tries to "conserve energy with AI" ends up consuming more power for an ultimately shittier experience than simply manually managing the system.

I suspect since there's money to extract and profit for the power companies, this will happen anyway in the next 5-10 years across the USA. I'm already bracing for the internet providers to start the same bullshit, claiming that the pipes are getting clogged at peak times...

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jasonwatkinspdx3y ago

Yeah, where I'm at my choices are basically Comcast and Century Link, both of them not companies I'm eager to do business with.

Comcast has been playing games around overage charges for a few years now. It's pretty transparently calibrated to ding you if you have more than one person regularly streaming 4k video.

rdtwo3y ago

We need to stop thinking about power and bandwidth on a per unit basis. There are times when it’s free someone’s you might even get paid to burn it and others when it’s super expensive. As for nest I agree it’s a shit experience and actually ends up peak loading the grid.

paganel3y ago

Not to mention the fact that a lot of people cannot just replace their existing appliances with newer IoT stuff just because, especially in this economy.

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