It's mostly historical. They used to suck in the past, but the implementations remain. Nowadays you are better off configuring to use OS certificates if possible.
I have hap ax3. They cleaned up their defaults. No extra license costs.
One issue I had was that I was affected (and many others) by wifi bug in firmware which made connections drop randomly. Took them half a year to resolve it. Wouldn't recommend Mikrotik as access point. Otherwise it's good.
They can, but then their COP is like... 2. Which is not great. Coupled with high units costs, need to make math is it even worth it compared to just electric heating.
We actually have both, retrofitted about 5 years ago into a 1980s house. A Toshiba mini-split downstairs and a Carrier ducted system upstairs. The indoor units of our Toshiba mini-split are actually very quiet: barely audible unless you really crank up the fan speed.
In our case we couldn't install ducting downstairs (no space between the floors), but it was simple and cheap to do so upstairs because there was attic / roof cavity space in which to run the ducting.
A big advantage of the mini-split is that it gives you precise temperature control in each room, where as our ducted system only has a single central thermostat, and on/off control in each room. This is problematic for the bedrooms, which tend to overheat at night in the winter when bedroom doors are closed, while it remains cooler in the hallway where the thermostat is. I'm currently looking into an upgraded control system ("Airtouch 5") which should solve this by putting wireless thermostats in each room.
What are the benefits to actual people? What you are gonna replace lost jobs with? All electronics with ram or storage is now way more expensive due to AI gobling up everything. And then there are local power grid impact concerns.
I’m not surprised there is. I even spelled out why I think there are so many who are opposed.
There is something very contradictory about these posts.
For example, you seem to suggest that it doesn’t benefit people but AI is can also replace workers. So which is it? AI is very useful to people to a point that one person can do the job of many? Or AI is useless?
Do we have mass unemployment because of AI? No. Our unemployment rate has been very low since ChatGPT.
> There is something very contradictory about these posts. > For example, you seem to suggest that it doesn’t benefit people but AI is can also replace workers.
The only contradiction is in your words because workers are (the) people and they don't benefit from being replaced. In other words, you contradict yourself by claiming contradiction where it doesn't exist.
> Our unemployment rate has been very low since ChatGPT
The unemployment rate includes only a small portion of the unemployed, it's a made-up number gated by many other
conditions.
The real measure is the LFPR - labor force participation rate - since 2006 it has fallen from 67% to 61%, that makes 18 million less employed today compared to 20 years ago.
Also, official IT unemployment rate today is almost twice the average and it's gotten considerably worse compared to 2022.
> If this is true, then you can just hire them and beat out the businesses that erroneously laid off valuable workers.
Hiring requires financing, and that's reserved for monopolies only, especially now with the AI trust-like, circular monopolies sucking every available dollar out of the debt markets.
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