You can feel the smart in these.
AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright
Submitted 5 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 months ago
User79185@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I’m sorry, but why the fuck those exist and WHO THE FUCK is buying them!?..
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
- Invent incredibly dumb device.
- Brand it as “Smart” to lean into Dunning-Kruger effect sales.
- Profit!!
nuko147@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Man, reality is way weirder than i thought…
aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol
ohlaph@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A smart bed that can’t function without checking in with mother ship? That’s the dumbest thing ever. You can always tell the businesses that skipped testing lol.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 months ago
They crave your data! They made it so that it cannot function without your sweet sweet sleep number!
Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Its a feature, make the product unusable if its not used as they intend. Take the sim card out of your car and watch it go into limp mode.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I don’t have a smart car though, I use a bike. No registration, no tax, barely any regulations and fewer that are actually enforced.
no_nothing@lemmy.world 5 months ago
good. I hope that whole industry fails. plug in anything is bullshit. give me old fashioned!!!
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is right up there with the Louvre security being connected to the internet and was hackable. Maybe some old fashioned alarms and guards would’ve been better.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Do you seriously think old alarms were unhackable?
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Not being able to do it from a distance would probably be a boon to security.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can’t just unplug them?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 months ago
That would require thought. Something that anyone buying a “smart” device, lack.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
First time I’m hearing of a smart bed… who tf is buying this crap? I still see Teslas out in the open and drives me mad to no end.
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
NGL if you have the money, a Watercooled bed is amazing.
Getting one that doesn’t work through the internet though, good luck.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Stupid bed.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bed goes up. AWS goes down.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
What is a smart bed? I mean it’s a bed. Are remotes too good for people?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
its like a smart fridge, or a smart electric toothbrush, something that requires an internet connection, usually it connects to an app on your phone to control certain features on said appliances, which people are too lazy to do themslves. when AWS went down, apps, or sites that uses aws went on the fritz.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
anyone who buys a mattress that can’t work without being connected to the internet deserves this
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The fix is investing in redundant internet at house from multiple providers. Satellite+fiber and achieve 99.99999% uptime so the bed won’t Crash and allow you a good night of sleep.
Because it’s unacceptable to send commands directly from the phone to the bed located in the same room, they need to transit between a dozen server farms to gather the delicious telemetry
Also: local=no subscription and that’s so bad
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 months ago
Yeah, uh… That wouldn’t have helped here since it wasn’t a drop in the internet on the user’s side that fucked shit up; it was whatever shit is going on with Amazon’s servers that make up a huge chunk of the web’s backbone.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 months ago
no but i mean that if the user internet is down, the same problems would came out
HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Read the whole comment, it’s sarcasm
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
When AWS went down, users lost access to the app that manages its water-cooled coils, leaving them stuck with whatever setting was last active.
That’s ridiculous. The app should merely talk to the device over wifi, if available. The cloud should only be used to connect from outside the wifi network.
Why is everything so crappy?
rdri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because we have webdevs and think of them as devs. They are not devs. They are mostly idiots.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What do you mean? Webdevs are devs, just within a specific platform. And like any dev, they can suck or be great.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
i heard people got locked in, or out of thier house on thier smart"locks", and also ring cameras were affected because the ALARM SOUNDS WOULDNT TURN OFF.
mlg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
IoT devs avoid MQTT and Multicast traffic like the plague.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
But even that makes little sense as it should take commands locally and any telemetry should be done after the commands are issued. This method basically says “if we ever miss out on telemetry data, it’s just not worth it to us to give you what you already paid for. “
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
eh perhaps to collect usage data and somehow benefit from it.
eodur@piefed.social 5 months ago
And this is why I only buy “smart” tech that can be used offline, and then put it on a separate vlan with extremely restricted access. Screw the cloud.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Agreed. If it doesn’t work with Home Assistant or requires me to use an account to use it, I’m completely not buying it.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mr robot
Erasmus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Reading the comment from the guy about his bed was a sauna all night from the heat. Did he not just think to unplug it? I mean I’ve never seen one of these beds, what happens if you do??
InnerScientist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They bought a $2000 bed with a 24/7 internet requirement, how smart do you think they are?
db2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think coding a contingency for loss of internet connectivity has got to be as basic as preventing Little Bobby Tables from deleting your data.
Zink@programming.dev 5 months ago
You are correct!
But you know what isn’t as easy or basic as that? Convincing Product Managers and others on up the chain that you should be able to take some time to code and test to fix an issue they don’t give a fuck about because it doesn’t affect their metrics.
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
You have upset the shareholders.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
But then you might be able to bypass the €25/mth subscription on your €3059 mattress cover.
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is spot on. Note these asshats eventually caved and added local controls when customers kept saying how horrible it was to use the phone. The local controls are explicitly disabled unless the cloud service has recently approved the bed to allow the local controls to work. You have to use the phone to enable the local controls. The phone can’t do anything locally except tell it how to connect to wifi. If you don’t have the subscription or grandfathered in before the subscription, the local controls do nothing.
Well, unless you jailbreak your cover with FreeSleep.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I wonder what kind of data about your location and bedtime activities are these beds collecting and selling?
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Woe, the bed got an erection.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
why the fuck would you get a smart bed
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So in my case (I didn’t want to, but not my choice, but at least it was cheap and without subscription at the time), it was about the water cooling/warming. It’s really nice and essentially inaudible.
I think Chilipad is a brand that does it without the online bullshit, though I didn’t get to try that.
None of this should ever require an internet connection, and it’s abundantly clear that’s an anti-consumer hostile forced behavior Eight Sleep did.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
to drink smart water in.
letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
haha, I paid $150 for my mattress and $200 for the frame. I slept like a baby during the outage. Bunch of “tech” suckers.
VivianRixia@piefed.social 5 months ago
Finally a bed that kills bed bugs by itself. You are welcome.
kubica@fedia.io 5 months ago
"We are going to bill you extra for the downtime service."
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think idiots buying this crap deserve this.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
same people would buy a supreme, or cybertruck.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Much like Cybertruck owners trapped and burned to death. I guess they did nazi that coming.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Are they analyzing your sleep telemetry so they can send you ads for nasal strips and melanin?!?
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They’re gathering something. Like a lot of “smart” stuff that’s connected to AWS, there’s just no reason to do it that way other than to take your data.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Less than 2 minutes of humping and Amazon sends you Viagra overnight.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Accidentally spill water in your bed and the next thing you know you’re getting adult diaper ads on every device you own for the rest of your life.
tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
and still the product is more intelligent than the buyer
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Anybody buying internet connected furniture is a sucker.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
seen this complaining on r/mildlyinfuriating all the time, people complaining thier SMART appliances was not cooperating
chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People wondering why this was designed to need the cloud, it requires a subscription fee. Overpriced greedy product. Its actually a good idea (bed temp control), but too greedy
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I feel weird because I’ve like never had a problem with bed temperature lol maybe pillows but even then that hasn’t been a problem for me in years.