If you can work with the magics schools of vim or emacs You know everything is a blated GUI shitfest and to stay away from it. Getting up and changing the thermostat, searching for the TV remote and going out to talk to people about they day/life is the much needed exercise we desk sitters need.

I don't do sports, but I'm more outdoors than iphone hipsters who travel a lot but basically travel to another (EU) country to sit in a starbucks for wifi to watch/dl netflix.

A x220 thinkpad, 2006 desktop, raspberry pi, S5 smartphone (de-googled, 7Euro a month service fee for 1500MB internet and unlimited calls) and a ps3 are my gadgets. They all 'help' me in their intended way and don't burden me with unnecessary bloat (except the desktop running windows only for games, tricked microsoft int accepting a burner gmail-account to have my win8-10 account info, very clever/funny names on there).

It's all about real luxury, having to go through some fancy-pansy gui app to change the temperature is SO MUCH MORE of a hassle than doing it the old way and you're stuck when there is an internet outage..

If you can't find within 30 minutes of search and coding a suitable script to manage it.. it ain't 'high'-tech it's bloat ware that gives you more head-trauma than doing it manually.