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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!"
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?
why? what if they want more money and decide to make it go subscription based? do you and the shareholders want to risk people just....unplugging them and continuing to use them? the mere idea made me drop my monocle .
It's already subscription based lol
why do people buy these things!?!?!
Because their favourite YouTuber tells them how much better they're feeling after getting one.
It's why sponsorships are an outright negative for me when looking at products. They abuse the authority influencers seem to get. "Oh I like him and his videos, he wouldn't lie to me." Yeah right.
Absolutely, some youtubers are nothing but paid shills.
On the other hand, there are some who have a lot of integrity. If TechMoan for example tells us that something actually works, I'll be very inclined to believe him.
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
From what I've seen, it's actually a really good product. Just that the company is trash and forces subscriptions and the mattresses to be always online.
forces the mattresses to be always online
Bahahahaha!
How can that possibly be a good product?
The tech and the physical product is good. The software and the system around it is bad.
To help people with paralysis shimmy into their wheelchairs in the morning and to keep the elderly in poorly insulated homes from freezing in the night.
okay sounds good. why the cloud thou
Thou must use the cloud so that thine company hast a recurring revenue stream.
Likely has remote monitoring and control functionality for nursing staff or families
It's amazing that they actually designed the beds to fail in the worst possible way. I mean this is cartoon crazy.
A reminder to not buy "smart" home appliances unless you can self-host it's internet connectivity or its "smart" features are optional.
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
What a stupid fucking product.
Sorry, I meant to say "stupid fucking people buying stupid fucking products."
Beds are often used for fucking. Beds are fucking products.
Right, and we should protect them by passing laws penalizing companies from such shitty software. Cuz the average person can't access the source code.
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"
Waiting for the reports that cars couldn't be used because of the aws issue
People who buy an internet connected bed have more dollars than sense.
Never buying smart anything. Wish we could buy a smart president though.
What's wrong with just a regular mattress? Why does it have to be connected to the internet? :(
It adjusts temperature (can heat OR cool and in some versions it can heat one side and cool the other) and I think the even more expensive version can morph a bit to your liking, and according to them, reduce snoring.
What they don't mention is that regardless of whether you get the 3600 euro option or the 5800 euro option, you still have to SUPPLY YOUR OWN MATTRESS. It's also a subscription service.
If you didn't hate it enough, it's also advertised as being "powered by AI". Which almost certainly is just some temperature adjustment algorithm, maybe even a deterministic one.
Dumbest fucking timeline
I thought I was terminally online but this is the moment I am hearing about smart beds. I guess the appeal is that it beams ads directly into your dreams?
Close your eyes, take a moment and just imagine the engineering culture at Eight Sleep. I'd almost rather be homeless than work there.
After reading the post and sifting through the comments I had this realization, that's probably more about advertising than anything else, I guess, but.. Don't you find it strange that in the last few years, there's a non-zero number of people who stumble upon an article like this, on lemmy, out of all places, and think "I didn't even know that existed, yet, it's very obvious that enough people use it for it to make headlines"? Is it just me? 🤔
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.