• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I’m in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that’s 70 years old.

    And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.

    16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of “too short”.

    That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it’s built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

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      6 months ago

      The article says that offline functions will continue to work. So they’ll just become regular thermostats.

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      6 months ago

      That is true, but my smart TV and smart scale both got something like 5 years of updates. Who buys a new scale every 5 years? My parents still have a scale from the 90s that works fine.

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          5 months ago

          Every time somebody steps on the scale, it identifies who they are, it logs their weight, body fat percentage etc puts it into an app for historical viewing