Air conditioners

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2020–2024), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Air conditioners, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Installers bundle the control system, so buyers can't pick a simpler device2024-08-29
Temperature control is hidden behind an advanced settings link that opens a webpage requiring a second login2024-08-13
Arrow buttons switch between horizontal and vertical navigation randomly; programming a day takes about 30 presses2020-08-28
Remote only cycles modes with no way to jump to a known state2020-04-27