Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 days agoActually, 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
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Even internet connected could be fine if they allow hooking into via something like home assistant 🤷♂️