our air conditioner can maintain a constant connection to the Internet and could quite easily do something useful with it but instead it lets you configure its 24-hour timer using a badly assembled UI on your phone instead of the badly assembled UI on top of the air conditioner

imagine if it could??? look at the local weather forecast, see it was going to be warm overnight and decide to turn on to keep the indoor temperature in check? imagine if this IoT garbage did anything new or useful?

by the way, the app provided by the vendor takes *fifteen seconds* from launch to perform enough HTTP requests to let you tap the button that turns the air conditioner on

hell, imagine if the thermostat had any accuracy whatsoever and weren’t literally in the air intake vent and therefore wasn’t constantly interfered with by the unit’s own air output?