Electronics 101: "always have an off switch."

Digital Thermostat Design 101, apparently: "to hell with all of you, if you need an off switch you can rip our device right off the damn wall. get fucked."

I took an introductory electronics class once and we were told that if we remembered anything from that class, it should be "always have a cut-off switch."

The thermostat here has no off switch, but was designed to be easily removable.

Nothing of what I said above was a joke.

The context here is that I tried to tell the thermostat to not turn anything on bc I have a door open and it just does not have this ability.

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