Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25

A rule of thumb when dealing with anything Google: never become too reliant on anything made by Google. They tend to depreciate almost everything eventually.

depreciate by deprecation

Deprecate*

But yes, this is why I'm staying away from Gemini. Seems like an amazing product! But no way am I putting my AI eggs in the Google basket.

I wonder what year they’ll sunset Gmail. Nothing is forever, surely some PM in 2033 will decide that email is over and it’s time to push everyone to Gemini Messenger.

To be fair, it's not like the thermostat is worth as much after it's discontinued

The day they finally deprecate Google Ads will be a good day.

It’s far easier to open a new tab than it is to change a thermostat, which also isn’t that hard… I still think google is doing itself and the rest of us a disservice when they don’t facilitate off-boarding or continuation of services that would be trivially cheap to maintain.

Wave bye-bye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4RKRLaSug

The devil you know though.

The day the kill that, is the day a new hell is trust upon you.

As it were, appreciate the life you have right now that AI doesn’t have ads, it’s coming.

Future is around the corner it seems...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45141343

When I bought my first Nest in 2012, Nest Labs was not yet part of Google (that acquisition came in 2014.)

So for the owners of Gen 1 and 2 thermostats, your rule of thumb isn’t helpful like it is for post 2014 purchases.

I’ve been trying to move away from gmail for some critical services (like banking) for this reason. But my list of random accounts tied to gmail (like the Parisian métro keeps growing).

>Deprecate

Yes it was an unfortunate autocorrect and it’s now too late to fix it!

Well, that’s disgusting. But not even the worst case.

That’s just today’s nonsense tacked on to tomorrow’s tool.

I’m talking about Apple and OpenAI having all your context and an ads-baked-in system where you work out hard on Thursday and on Friday as you are passing by a advertising-buyer ice cream shop that your phone tells you that you earned whatever flavor it knows you like.

There is no switching cost or even effort with LLMs. You can use Gemini now if you think it’s the current best option and switch whenever it isn’t.