Fuk'n thunderstorm last night

4:45 yesterday afternoon, I'm in my office and I heard this loud rumbling. "WTF, was that thunder?" Absolutely nothing in the forecast, supposed to rain the next day. Look at the radar.
"Holy shit, where daphuq did that come from?"
It rocked and rolled, crashed and boomed here for over 3 hours nonstop. The cat and the dog were petrified. Lights blinked but power never really went out.

But something knocked my wifi thermostat off the network and I absolutely was stumped trying to get it back online. I followed instructions in the app and whatever gibberish the google AI threw up on my desktop. "Framit the blitzken and viola, you're back on." Nothing about how to framit, or WTF the blitzken is. The level of assumption of knowledge is infuriating. If I knew that shit, I wouldn't be looking it up. Tell me how to framit, tell me what the fucking blitzken is.

Theoretically, everything is there. The 2.4Ghz wifi is working, the thermostat shows up in the wifi list, it goes through the app and the fucking thermostat keeps failing to connect. "No internet connection". It's 9:24, the help desk opened at 9. I'm waiting to find out what my bro's plans are for the day, because I'm going to need to able to power cycle the modem repeatedly as each "steve" "mike" "bob" with a suffocatingly heavy accent struggles to stay awake while waiting for the 10-15 minutes it takes for everything to reboot every time. I can't be doing that if bro is working from home. I'll have all of 3 hours IF he quits at 5 PM. I've had calls that lasted way longer than that. The original installation call took from 10 AM to 6 PM, all with the same tech somewhere in the Philippines.

Ain't technology grand?

I refuse to have a WiFi connected thermostat.

Hard wire for the win.

No way any nefarious entity can take over the control of my AC in the name of global energy saving whatever.

It’s getting ridiculous these days. Even my new electric razor told me the other day to connect to the internet for a firmware update.
Why does something whose sole job is to spin around in circles and trim whiskers need a f’kg firmware update?

So is the thermostat working but just not connected to your WIFI? Ours is hard wired and can be manually controlled and has WiFi connection that allows it to be controlled by PC or phone app.

Shut down your phone. Then restart.

No! Just no!
Hardwired thermostat and no internet of things in my house thank you!

I damn sure don't need my fridge telling me what I need from the grocery store, or that the cheese I bought in January might be bad. I like finding that out on my own.

Mike I said:

I refuse to have a WiFi connected thermostat.

Hard wire for the win.

No way any nefarious entity can take over the control of my AC in the name of global energy saving whatever.

It’s getting ridiculous these days. Even my new electric razor told me the other day to connect to the internet for a firmware update.
Why does something whose sole job is to spin around in circles and trim whiskers need a f’kg firmware update?

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YOU"RE NOT SHAVING RIGHT!

pnuggett said:

So is the thermostat working but just not connected to your WIFI? Ours is hard wired and can be manually controlled and has WiFi connection that allows it to be controlled by PC or phone app.

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the wall unit is hardwired to the a/c and furnace, it's the wifi connection to my phone I can't re-establish. I hear you when you say "I ain't letting nobody control my heat/cool" the electric company asks me a couple times a week to join and 'save'. Nope. I ain't letting nobody run my thermostat but me and if they try to force themselves on my network, I'll ditch it and go full manual.

Sounded like a killer storm. Im jealous!!

Fixed yet?

The WIFI is doing a mind meld on him..