• Railcar8095@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Because they were designed with cloud first mentality, they are fetching the temperature 100 times per second to the server. In case of connection issues, they stop working.

    Does this seen stupid? Yes. Did I make it up? Also yes. Is the true for a lot of consumer electronics? Yes.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Yep, you know some solar panels stop working if the power management system can’t call home (the corp).
      Who could have thought that during a power outage, you may lose the connection??