B/c that stuff actually worked when you needed it.
My fancy, government mandated, high SEER computerized furnace is throwing a random error "E2", which when you look it up is so insightful it could be anything from a dirty filter to a major part failure. It will work, then kick the error and rather than restart after X time it just shuts down in error condition.
So I'm going to have to nursemaid my furnace all night, and all day etc. until someone can get out here with the right tech to fix this thing. Probably a couple of days. I do have a great HVAC guy, this isn't on him, but he will be busy with people who have zero heat, and my heat is just at the expense of getting any sleep or work done tomorrow.
Give me the old tech. Cars without computers that ran for 500,000 miles and you could fix in your own garage. Furnaces that yes were less efficient and less sealed, but were workhorses that kept you from freezing to death when it got this cold.
There's a reason firearms technology hasn't really evolved too much since the early 1900s. It's an area where a) the government has yet to regulate design and efficiency standards, and b) reliability is usually the single biggest factor in having people buy your product. That's why fingerprint lock guns etc. are so deeply unpopular. They are the firearms equivalent of the cars with 50 separate computers, furnaces with completely unhelpful error codes on their overly complex circuit boards, etc.
Give me a coal fired boiler and a 1951 Ford. I'll pass them down to my grandkids in still running condition. I'd have to stack Teslas and these modern furnaces up like cordwood if they didn't take them at the city dump.
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