People lost control of their smart thermostats
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Perfect stick in the bike tire meme
And if they are determined they can defeat if with a small table and a candle or two under the thermostat. Sure, the company can set their air to 85, but they can make the small area by the thermostat think it's 95.
They could get a couple of resisters and connect them to the furnace terminals on the smart thermostats and then hook a normal thermostat to their actual HVAC hardware.
It's a lesson that letting the government/corporations run your life in exchange for the change they find in their sofa is a bad idea. But yeah, they signed up for this and only a retard would be surprised that they used a power that they were explicitly given.
This should be the top comment.
You do realize that what probably happened is the people heard rebate, then just scrolled all the way down to the bottom without reading it, right? It’s the exact reason why EULAs/TOSs aren’t enforceable in Europe, because of that.
Yep, just use enticing words like "rebate" and "smart", and see just how many so-called "intelligent human beings" lap it up without further thought.
Especially if it's accompanied by tons of legalese written in a tiny font that most people can't seem to be able to even see correctly, and consider how many (or rather, few) of them even like to read for fun.
Selling one's soul for a bit of convenience? Yeah, society has been slipping that way for more than a century now, but the beginnings of it are now so normalized, you can't even see them for what they were any more.