Are you talking about smart thermostats on radiant heaters? Then in my experience yes, they turn once in a while when they are around the target temperature

His opinion is literally on the frontpage of his project on github, there is nothing ‘alleged’ about it. I don’t think the project can be separated from his opinions

The anti DEI stuff is in the project readme and the anti vax bullshit was on the lkml. So I think the auther can not keep his ‘opinions’ and politics out of his projects. If he uses his software work to promote potentially dangerous believes, I don’t think the project should be supported or promoted

Also the guy got told off by Linus Torvalds for being an anti-vaxxer https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/

So imo this isn’t a project that should be supported

Yeah very recently, by a guy who says it is explicitly anti “DEI” in the readme and thinks there is some kind of conspirancy by IBM to kill Xorg