This is why I made my own bed, with my own two hands, out of solid Douglas for and southern pine. Let’s see AWS crash an inert object made of wood and metal.
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright
Submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to technology@lemmy.zip
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WoodScientist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I carved mine out of an old olive tree. Good luck stealing it.
zarathustra0@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ulysees?
Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 5 months ago
L.O.L! Cant wait to the next solarflare hope they swat the sleepers like flies
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yeah you might as well “work overnight to fix this,” because you can’t go to bed anyway
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Smart devices are just dandy when they don’t require an internet connection. Got a cheapo smart thermostat that works no matter what. Google could cancel my Minis and my internet could go offline, I can still control it with buttons.
Bought that 5-years ago. At this point I assume all IoT devices require internet.
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
There is special category for Internet of Shit devices, that not only are cloud based but also require a persistent connection to a server to even execute basic functions.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I’ve heard these beds are actually quite effective at helping you sleep and then wake up more naturally.
But they have wrapped entirely local events (it’s all just timers, folks) behind a cloud-exclusive subscription and the product is useless on a sunny day like we had yesterday.
They’re enormously expensive and the subscription serves no useful purpose other than to line the pockets of the investors.
I have a strict rule of no cloud dependency in my house. Otherwise, I’d be interested - if the price was remotely reasonable.
HejMedDig@feddit.dk 5 months ago
You can get other versions than eight sleep. I had an insert for my pillow. Can’t remember the brand though. It ran locally via an app and Bluetooth. I ended up returning within the trial period, due to it forming bubbles in the circulation, which woke me up
floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I just hammer my brain with melatonin on top of alcohol and extreme fatigue. It’s nature’s solution.
tyler@programming.dev 5 months ago
You can flash your own firmware if you want.
grahamja@reddthat.com 5 months ago
That sounds wonderful, to have an air gapped smart bed on open source software. Just like having the perfect nuclear missile launch system on Windows XP made by clever engineers. No updates, just dreams.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 5 months ago
“sorry honey just a bit longer, I’m in the process of flashing the bed, we can go to bed soon…god damn sig faults!”
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I wonder how it compares in functionality - to be clear, there’s no functionality I’m aware of that would require cloud (perhaps historical data).
Still, they’re wildly expensive.
miguel@fedia.io 5 months ago
The most first world of all first world problems has arrived
the_q@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Lol wow. We truly are fucked as a species.
Asafum@feddit.nl 5 months ago
You know this bed is great and all, but what it’s really missing is a mandatory connection to the Internet!
…jfc
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“Carla! Carla! What the fuck is this? I know you sleep on a 25. A 25 or a 30 if you fuck up swiping. I know for a fucking fact that you would NEVER choose to sleep on a 60, and yet I found a goddamn record of a 60 when I was out last week. Who was it? Who was here?”
I really can’t see any other reason. A dial isn’t sexy but it’s far easier in every way
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People in the 80’s: “In the year 2025 we’re going to have hoverboards and flying cars!”
2025: “I can’t use my bed because the servers are down”
Never buy anything that needs to be connected to a server to work for no good reason.
Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Also people in the 80’s: “I love my waterbed, but my back is killing me for some reason.”
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Smart products themselves are not the issue. The issue is making everything cloud based. The solution is companies designing their products so they can be controlled over the network.
It’s a fucking bed! It doesn’t need a persistent connection to some server. The problem is that they also want to mine and sell your data.
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Smart products are part of the issue, and smart products that fail in dumb ways are a really big part of the issue.
Any smart product, pretty much by definition, has to have a computer in it. Anything with a computer in it can be hacked. There’s really no good reason that your bed should have an attack surface.
If you are going to have smarts in something, it really needs to fail well. Like, for a bed, it should have something that bypasses the smarts and lets it go back to “dumb bed” mode no matter what. No matter what position it’s in, it should be possible to make it go flat even if you have no Internet connection. In fact, even if the smart parts are not working at all, there should be a way to make it go flat, even if that’s a purely mechanical system that allows you to bypass the motors.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Smart products are named oxymoronically.
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s the key. They want to mine and sell the data
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Brilliant!
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 5 months ago
quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Probably people with “help, my possessed bed folded me inside it, and now I’m trapped” fetishes
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
How about a Kohler toilet that watches you poop for an annual subscription.
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“Smart” toilets are a privacy nightmare.
Having said that, in the distant future, if we don’t drown the world, or kill ourselves in some other way, smart toilets are actually a smart idea.
Look how often a medical check-up requires either a stool sample or a urine sample. It makes sense. It’s the waste products our body produces, so there’s going to be a lot of data there. Now, imagine if you could get a basic medical check-up every time you used the toilet. You could catch so many problems early. It would be an entirely non-invasive medical check-up and if done right you wouldn’t even need to change your routine. You’d just use the toilet as normal and if the toilet detected anything that required a more detailed check, it could give you a packet of data you could give to your doctor.
At the very least, imagine if instead of trying to pee into a cup at the doctor’s office – or worse, trying to collect a stool sample, you could just use the “Medical Toilet” the way you use any other toilet and it would collect the sample for you.
But, of course, the wealth of medical information it could provide is exactly why it would be a privacy nightmare in the current world. I don’t know why Kohler is jumping into this now. Even if they see it as some way to generate revenue, they have to know it’s going to generate lawsuits too, and when inevitably there’s a privacy breach it’s going to put their good name in the toilet.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
So, what would be the community that is the opposite of buy it for life?
Seriously, I get that internet is ubiquitous in some areas, but everything should have the ability to function correctly without internet access.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
there was also one called “internetofshit” but forgot on which instance
rafoix@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
lol, e-waste beds.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Look at how much capitalism creates progress and drives us as a species to better ourselves. Next step, how to make money off people breathing air and sell them a subscription for it so they can continue to consume
matlag@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Then tens of thousands or millions would die when a server goes down, but “shit happens” and there was a small line in the EULA where the provider deny all responsability if anythind bad happens from a service failure.
Thoughts and prayers, though!
Did you know that with our Super+ package, you get redundant servers switching automatically to the next working one?
ngdev@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
thats easy, pollute the air so much that you have to buy consumable gas mask filters to breathe
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Petroleum companies have been working on it for years I’m sure
muffedtrims@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nestle enters the chat
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
“Water isn’t a human right”
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
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ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hail skroob