Not familiar with Nest. Does your thermostat not work if your internet doesn't work?
If you’re silly enough to rely on internet access to change the temperature in your house you deserve to be hot.
My phone switches from mobile data to wifi as I get near the door, causing a several second wait. Now I hit the button before I reach the wifi and then run to the door to try to get it before it locks again.
Hopefully we never lose internet...
Seems like a thermostat could do that.
How did people keep their pipes from exploding before Nest?
1. Automatically set the temperature cooler when you're home
2. Turn off your AC remotely if you forget (or automatically because of 1)
3. Change the temperature from your bed
Of course there are drawbacks: multiple points of failure. This is early tech, but it makes sense. For a really funny satire of how early these things are, follow [1].
I personally like to be in control so I disable the "learning" features.
I'm pretty sure the parent comment was, while grounded in reality, expressed in a humorous tone.
As he said, he can just get up and change the air conditioning.
Please do "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." The parent was absurd enough that it was probably a joke.