Build your shit to be fail safe. The idea that this was less bad if you self hosted is ridiculous. You will have much more outages that way.
You may be right to criticize cloud everything, but as I said, just not the problem here. Only the trigger.
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The only thing my bed has that my previous beds didn't was a removable charging outlet with USBs and stuff. That's it. That requires only electricity and is literally something that could have existed last century with no problem.
I have a Sunbeam heated mattress pad. I like sleeping in a cool room but in a panini press. I'm weird.
Never buying smart anything. Wish we could buy a smart president though.
It's amazing that they actually designed the beds to fail in the worst possible way. I mean this is cartoon crazy.
Close your eyes, take a moment and just imagine the engineering culture at Eight Sleep. I'd almost rather be homeless than work there.
Ha, this reminds me of the death of the guy that gave the world lead poisoning.
He also invented CFCs, the chemical that nearly destroyed the earth's protective ozone layer. Quite a guy.
A one man environmental disaster. J. R. McNeill opined that Midgley "had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history"
also CFCs!
he was a one-man ecological disaster
His best invention was the bed that killed him! If only those who designed the "smart" beds that need functioning network access (and working AWS) had all been in one.
So instead of it defaulting to last known good settings, it couldn’t poll AWS to retrieve the user settings and either just went into debug alert mode or the hardcoded defaults are full upright and max temp. More premium products kneecapped by poor management in a race to enshittify everything
$2000 is very mid for a bed.
What? The frame? The most important part of the bed is the mattress!
Sleep Number, Personal Comfort, and Duxiana are some examples. You can find their stores all over, even in malls, and they are readily available for delivery without waiting for bespoke orders. The frames are often "free" for basic adjustable options in their packaging.
No it is not.
Check out Sleep Number or Duxiana beds for examples of common beds that start at twice that amount.
The heck are you talking about. My tuft and needle mint WITH the added cost of extra pillows and a sheet set wasn't even a full $2000 it's one of the best mattresses I've ever seen in my life I've had it for like 5 years now and there's still zero indication of any type of settling or imprinting on the foam, it's the perfect mix of firm supportive but comfortable and shape fitting. And every time I've seen a bed more expensive than that it's felt terrible and basically just been about buying the brand name or some stupid exotic material it's made of
I paid $700 CAD for my king size. You bougie
Perhaps, but it is a fact that several common manufacturers offer discounts or "gift" sheet packages that are more than what you paid for your bed. I'm glad you found what works for you.
A reminder to not buy "smart" home appliances unless you can self-host it's internet connectivity or its "smart" features are optional.
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Online first, and they're only now working on offline mode? Okay...
this is worse than getting locked out of your smart oven for not paying subscription
I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. But why does a bed need to be smart? This is the dumbest timeline ever. It really is
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I feel like if I was gonna put a computer attached to a motor & heater inside a bed, the very first step would be making sure that if the software goes wrong, it always defaults to staying bed shaped and not catching fire.
I know I know hindsight is 20/20, I'm sure I'm just missing something. Venture capitalists would just give their money to any random idiot with a pitch, right?
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Reminds me that nurse interview in Spain during the blackout:
"But your hospital doesn't have a backup generator?? -Oh we have solar panels, we could be running off the grid! But the power management system requires an Internet connection, and it's down!"
The nurse knew that the power management system required an Internet connection? That's one geeky nurse.
Still, I have hope with things like solar panels. I think these are likely to be teething pains there. Being off-grid on a solar panel is probably a pretty common situation, so they're probably going to eventually work out the kinks. As long as there isn't a monopoly on power management systems, or regulatory capture by the companies that make them, probably the ability to work disconnected from both the power and Internet grids will eventually happen. But, with Internet-of-Things stuff, there's often a commercial incentive to mine people's data and lock them into a subscription service model. So, that's really going to require regulation to fix.
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