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A Boring Dystopia
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I’m so mad. I bought and installed the thing in my wall before it was owned by Google, then they bought it and shut it down while it’s still working fine. It would cost them almost nothing to leave it working. It just does t collect quite as much creepy stalking information as the newer models, so now it has to go in a trash can.
I have learned from this experience to literally never buy anything that relies on an external server ever again in my lifetime.
Actually, it costs them a lot of money, my pihole is blocking 2000 requests per day from my nest thermostat. Multiply that for the millions of units they sold and you have a small scale "Perpetual DDoS Attack" to their servers. I don't know why a thermostat needs to call home that often, if it's to checking the outside temperature it could do it just twice a day, or just avoid it altogether when it's off (8 months per year in my case)
But yes, I will never buy this shit again from them, and the next must have the option to be controlled without internet. It doesn't make sense to send a message to a server in another continent to activate a device that's located in the same room I'm sitting in
Even internet connected could be fine if they allow hooking into via something like home assistant 🤷♂️