From d8a6853ef0234df46bc821740ac0d905df836171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Gauthier Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 11:27:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] article: the digital panopticon --- content/post/the-digital-panopticon.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/post/the-digital-panopticon.md b/content/post/the-digital-panopticon.md index 527e96d..87301d2 100644 --- a/content/post/the-digital-panopticon.md +++ b/content/post/the-digital-panopticon.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ draft: false --- I had a Nest thermostat (before it was gobbled up by Google) many years ago in a home in New Hampshire. It ran a furnace that burned supposedly eco-friendly pellets. To be honest, my only interest in the furnace was that it offered an economical alternative to the established expensive centralized gas utility. -The thermostat was sufficient. I never used the phone app designed for it because the house was too small, and I saw no benefit in adjusting the temperature of my house while at the grocery store. I did have to reboot it relatively frequently. Every time I did, the question of why this needed to be a linux node kept getting bigger and bigger in my mind. By the time I got rid of the house (only a couple of years later). I didn't want to have anything to do with "home automation". Let me take a step back to explain why. +The thermostat was sufficient. I never used the phone app designed for it because the house was too small, and I saw no benefit in adjusting the temperature of my house while at the grocery store. I did have to reboot it relatively frequently. Every time I did, the question of why this needed to be a linux node kept getting bigger and bigger in my mind. By the time I got rid of the house (only a couple of years later) I didn't want to have anything to do with "home automation". Let me take a step back to explain why. ## Ancient History