90% of smart devices are for novelty, or for you to spend more time setting up and maintaining their automations than they save you in being automated.

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.

I have lots of smart gadgets that also have physical switches. It's convenient to be able to control them in more than one way, from more than one location.

Anyway, why are you commenting here if you're not into this sort of thing? Feels like you're just trying to stir up an argument.

If your fan isn't Byzantine fault tolerant, you're irrelevant

And some people don’t see any reason for the internet and just wanna use phones and physical mail. To each their own.

> 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