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Why.
Somebody wanted to do something, and they did it; it doesn't have to be any more complicated than that :-)
> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.
Sincerely, HN Guidelines Police :-)
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iroh is a peer to peer networking technology so the project example of controlling a fan isn't so much about the fan but rather that it's controllable from anywhere through an esp32 microcontroller that can maintain a resilient connection endpoint even through power cycles and so on. I think iroh was posted about on HN a few weeks ago and I had a similar reaction of like...what in the world is this blog post even say…
I use a fan with an on/off button.
Why.
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Typescript is nothing without JavaScript
With that logic, C is nothing without assembly.
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That's very much not a smart fan. Not really relevant.
Pretty relevant because I've never seen the reason for "smart" gadgets at all. Physical switches are simply better.
Pff, assuming that everyone have arms and hands much?
Also I don't see the point of a fan, I live right next to the ocean, if you want moving air, why don't you just open a window?! Talk about useless invention
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That's very much not a smart fan. Not really relevant.
Pretty relevant because I've never seen the reason for "smart" gadgets at all. Physical switches are simply better.
But that 10% is magic. A fan that switches on when air quality falls below a threshold? Not that useful in a living room, but in a workshop setting - especially a shared workshop setting? Awesome. Just awesome.
A well defined use case, in the right setting, and smart stuff can be genuinely very useful. Usually that’s not how they’re used - i know, because of the 15-20 smart things i have only one or two are genuinely useful.
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That's very much not a smart fan. Not really relevant.
Pretty relevant because I've never seen the reason for "smart" gadgets at all. Physical switches are simply better.