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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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HejMedDig@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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- floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I just hammer my brain with melatonin on top of alcohol and extreme fatigue. It’s nature’s solution.
  
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tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
You can flash your own firmware if you want.

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- partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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- rozodru@pie.andmc.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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!”
  
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  - Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Ah, bed bugs.
    
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  - tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Huh? It’s the exact same thing as any other electronic in any home assistant smart house. Put firmware on it that you control. Why would you need to do anything about it at night.
    
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    adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Because that’s when you have the time to do the maintenance.
    
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- CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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  - Death__BySnuSnu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I bought a brand new one of these on Marketplace because I really need a cooler bed, but I’ll be damned if I get sucked into a subscription for a fucking bed!! The hack i used was a workaround where you setup your own server that will set the bed temperature automatically at bedtime and can update it once again at some point during the morning (so you can wake up to a warm bed, for instance). It worked alright, but then the main unit crapped out after 2 weeks.
    
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    tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You should definitely be able to fix the main unit. It’s just a heat pump. The value is the tech in the mattress cover.
    
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  - tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Expensive but super worth it. Honestly best improvement to my sleep ever. More so than any new mattress or pillow or sheets or anything else has ever done.
    
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- grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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