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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

This might surprise you, but some people work jobs with alternating schedules.

I'd imagine it's pretty annoying to reprogram the thermostat every other week or w/e.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    And it isn't annoying to have to log into your thermostat every day?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Log in every day? Many, if not most, smart thermostat apps have location based features to automatically handle the use case OP had mentioned. You can set it up one time and pretty much never need to interact with it again.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    The smart thermostat that came with my house has that "feature" and I hate it. If I don't walk past the thermostat for a few hours, it assumes I'm not home and then lets the house turn into an icebox.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    So your thermostat is tracking your location by GPS to know when to turn on?

    I mean, I guess at least I can see how someone might benefit from it I suppose. I certainly don't want that though.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Nobody was asking what you want.

    Nobody here is trying to sell you on one of these, you just jumped in to tell us how you cant fathom why someone would want one and were offered a reasonably common use case as an answer.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Wait until they find out about how cars are tracking your every movement

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Or when they find out that their phone has like 30 other sensors used in conjunction with the GPS for tracking that can't be "switched off".

    Or that switching off GPS is only switching off the transmission of the data, not the collection of it on the device which then stores it all to be transmitted as soon as you turn the toggle back on.

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