• Prime Mover (unregistered)

    You sort of wonder whether certain apps depend upon the user to reveal their location. Users who decline to do so may then fall foul of apps which are then unable to translate the templates into the language for that milieu. Possibly a new computer, before it has had a chance to configure itself properly, may also exhibit such behaviour.

  • Drew W (unregistered)

    I'm a Subaru driver, not a Renault driver.

  • AnotherNonSignedIn (unregistered)

    Seems like the watch temperature is Kelvin, although clearly not consistent with the temperature at the top/right.

  • Andrew Miller (unregistered)

    The Ecobee measurement is perfectly reasonable. All right thinking people use Kelvin.

  • Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; -- (unregistered)

    Greg is just being very conservative with his energy use, he only turns on the cooling system when it gets hotter than 298.5°. He's probably in the top 1% in his area!

  • Angela Anuszewski (google) in reply to Andrew Miller

    I'm a 'murican, where's my Rankine thermostat?

  • Scott (unregistered)

    I used to work for a competitor of Discount Tire. If their development is anything like ours was, can confirm their code is gibberish.

  • ex-kay-see-dee (unregistered)

    I only measure in Felsius, thank you very much.

  • (nodebb)

    If the ambient temperature becomes 300 degrees (either F or C), it solves a lot of problems. Many car parts don't need cooling, neither do power stations. In fact, all water boils, which can be used to generate free electricity - no need to extract fuels or build expensive solar arrays.

  • Carl Witthoft (google) in reply to Mr. TA

    Water won't boil at 300 degrees Celsius unless the pressure is less than about 10 MPa . Check your local phase diagram.

  • Huhhhhhhh??? (unregistered)

    I have no idea what's going with that "thermostat" image, especially the headband that's apparently about to level up...

  • (nodebb) in reply to Andrew Miller

    Seems like the watch temperature is Kelvin, although clearly not consistent with the temperature at the top/right.

    Google tells me that:—

    298 kelvin = 76.73 degrees Fahrenheit

  • Terry K (unregistered) in reply to Prime Mover

    The Greenville weather page bookmark displayed correctly before, and resumed working a few hours after I took the screenshot. Maybe they were updating their localization template, but pushing it to production (and apparently failing) during the morning hours (EDT) doesn't seem like a particularly good idea.

  • WTFGuy (unregistered)

    @Mr. TA ref

    In fact, all water boils, which can be used to generate free electricity - no need to extract fuels or build expensive solar arrays.

    Best of all demand collapses to zero since there are no surviving customers. Don't even need to bother with the generating plants.

  • Pwned (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous') OR 1=1; DROP TABLE wtf; --

    Maybe he has one of those cheap thermostats sponsored by the power grid which reduce energy consumption at peak times by overriding the customers chosen temperature?!

  • (nodebb)

    Let's see. The temperature in the top-left is in Kelvin. However you might want to go outside, if the top-right temperature is the outside temperature. Not only will your doors be frozen shut, but if you get to push them open, you will be pushing against a soup of liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen.

  • Chris (unregistered)

    I thought with Kelvin, you don't use the degrees symbol?

  • Vlad Goralev (unregistered)

    Good to see I'm not the only one who thought "Kelvin" immediately on seeing that temperature.

    I don't see the WTF with the last one though.

  • Long Time Lurker (unregistered) in reply to Drew W

    Wow, Drew, that touch screen in your Subaru looks almost as dirty as mine.

  • Orb (unregistered)

    when did they get a kelvin setting? I'd normalise to that

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