• @[email protected]
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    So; for $2k upfront, $19 a month in saas fees, you get a bed that you can adjust the temperature of online? And also, opens up your whole house to being remotely hacked? And our guy in the article has chucked his electronics and replaced it with a tropical aquarium heater pump for $180, which suggests that it’s just the bog standard kind of waterbed that you could have bought for about $300, with unnecessary tech attached?

    There’s plenty of “silicon valley tech” that seems to have a ridiculously poor value proposition - this isn’t the Juicero, but might challenge for second place. Have to wonder exactly what they’re thinking, though. And what the devs were thinking, putting it into production with a live AWS key in the firmware.

    • @[email protected]
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      To be fair, beds have always been a racket. I know a bad one when I see it but could never tell a passable €100 bed from a €10,000 bed. Why I’d want my bed to be connected to the internet, nevermind Bezos, is beyond me. Then again, I’m not bright and have been known to sleep in ditches and on under-sized sleeping pads.

  • Leraje
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    3115 hours ago

    I know this isn’t exactly the point of this post or the article but anyone who thinks a smart bed is useful very clearly has more money than sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      2615 hours ago

      I feel like I’ve woken up on another planet.

      $19 subscription service, for a bed.

      I feel like I’m losing my grip on reality

      • Lem Jukes
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        213 hours ago

        I mean you kind of are if you conflate the idea of the subscription being for just having the bed in your house and sleeping on it. You still have to drop ~2k on the physical product. Then you start paying the $19/mo for their active temperature monitoring and cooling service. It’s still ridiculous but it’s not ‘a bed you have to pay a subscription to use’ ridiculous. Those are called hotels/apartments/layaway…

  • Coldmoon
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    1313 hours ago

    “You are a bed! Why do you need my email address?!”

  • Cris
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    2115 hours ago

    a backdoor to enable company engineers to SSH into any bed

    ಠ_ಠ

    The world we’ve created is fucking stupid. Read the article. It only made it more dumb. Good Lord.

  • Dem Bosain
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    512 hours ago

    Well, this is a first for me:

    BPC > disable Dark Reader or enable JavaScript for site

    Javascript is enabled, so I assume Bloomberg just wants to blind me.

    • OtterOPM
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      211 hours ago

      Sounds like some janky workaround to address complaints they got from users

    • @[email protected]
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      212 hours ago

      Wild. I might agree to that if I’m allowed to visit their offices first and poke someone in the eye. Seems only fair.

  • @[email protected]
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    915 hours ago

    I also found a backdoor into my bed, but more on that later.

    This is just in general a good read.

  • kn0wmad1c
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    614 hours ago

    Meanwhile, the Purple I got 9 years ago is still giving me my best sleep ever

    • @Benjaben
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      But can you SSH into it?! IDIOT

    • @RubberElectrons
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      I’m looking at buying one, but I’m hearing the modern products aren’t as well made as the originals.