Get an ESP32, a temperature sensor, and 4x relay board and build your own with esphome!

If you pull the instructions for your thermostat, the wiring guide should tell you what each wire is for (because you can’t trust wire colors). From there it’s just wiring up the relays properly, getting the config built in esphome, and setting up a generic thermostat.

It sounds kinda daunting, but it’s really not super complex. The only gotchas too look out for are any of the relays that can’t be on when another relay is on. There’s a way to prevent that in esphome. I’m sure someone has made a guide on it by now. I would have made one if I had gotten my enclosure figured out before my 3D printer took a hiatus.

Neither does a smart washing machine.

Right, the max instantaneous load is the max load I was speaking of.

You just have to use an outlet rated for the max load.

As far as the esp chip goes, I was meaning more along the lines of using a sensor of some sort.

Or just a smart outlet that can track power consumption. Plenty of options that work locally with HA.

But I’d definitely fire up the 3D printer and grab an ESP chip if I was doing this at home.

You can get smart couches right now.

Have US citizens been sent to Venezuela?

I think the people who would ultimately carry out the proposal and write the special publication for it would do it right, though. I’ve been through several 3PAO audits, and that shit is brutal.

This definitely isn’t a terrorist attack.

Man, even AoL is still a thing.

I don’t think this really is idiocy. AI/ML can definitely be a powerful tool for things that rely on analysis and pattern matching with a ton of data, and cyber security is one of those things.

And it’s definitely possible to implement it in a secure fashion. I haven’t looked into it, but I’m sure NIST is developing guidelines on hardening AI systems.

I fail to see anything wrong here

Yup, it is. Social engineering is by far the most effective means of gaining unlawful access to any system.

Humans are always the weakest link.

If it’s not now, it will in the future.

If someone is asking strangers for help to stop a behavior, you should believe that the behavior is an issue.

Would you ask this if the question was about alcohol?

This is just shifting addictions to another unhealthy parasocial relationship.

Someone with this type of issue needs to shift their focus to something different than idolizing a person, fictional or not.

Or anything involving the outside world. Nature walks, bird watching, geocaching, etc. Doesn’t need to be anything competitive or strenuous.

Ditto. If you don’t work from home, it’s likely you just miss it.

America has never been a melting pot. Every new group of immigrants to this country have been horribly abused and hate crimed. Not just brown people either.

I don’t, but I have cone-rod dystrophy.

Talk to a doctor first. The keto diet does have very real health risks.