@Humpleupagus @Evil_Bender Ours is even older school than that. I've got one of those circular honeywell notched dial ones with the little needles you squint as.

I know about the Nest because the wife does real estate and was trying to sell a house that kept going damp and hot every time someone showed up to look at it. She would swear that she had set it for a reasonable a/c level just hours before.

And she had.

But the fucking thing has default eco-programming and avails itself of motion sense... I believe it even uses satellites for this shit, if you can believe it.

So I had to look it up online and go back to "fix" it.

So you can program it to act as an old fashioned manual thermostat, but should your power go out, when it comes back on, it defaults to government fuckery as a first option.

Can you imagine trying to live with that bullshit?

My wife eventually sold the house, but that idiocy probably scared away 2-3 buyers who, reasonably, suspected the HVAC system was broken.