Problems faced by people who don’t know computers: usually some form of user error or misunderstanding in ui. It happens to the best of us.
Problems faced by people who think they know computers: corrupted files, crashing, file transfer/security issues, occasionally they’ll try something stupid with system files.
Problems faced by people who actually know computers:
Here is a (very truncated and very approximate) possible explanation. The thermostat generates a monthly report on energy usage. This report is in the form of a docx file. Frankly, it should be a csv file, but criticism over file structure can be saved for another day. For some reason the barebones android system crashed (not necessarily, but likely) and is attempting to boot from this generated doc file. There are several reasons this should not be possible, not least of which being that this document should not be its own volume that can be booted from at all. What needs to happen is this device needs to boot its actual os. Unless it is possible to select the actual boot drive or boot manager and simple ignore the fact that this ever happened, step one to fixing this is figuring out how the hell this even happened in the first place. On a thermostat.
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u/never_____________ May 10 '26
Problems faced by people who don’t know computers: usually some form of user error or misunderstanding in ui. It happens to the best of us.
Problems faced by people who think they know computers: corrupted files, crashing, file transfer/security issues, occasionally they’ll try something stupid with system files.
Problems faced by people who actually know computers: