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Tech can be good, yet do make it serve an actual good purpose!
I'm 25, demiboy, from España 🇪🇸
Mechatronics and Aerospace Technician
I'm 25, demiboy, from España 🇪🇸
Mechatronics and Aerospace Technician
Eight sleep having their beds malfunction because of anything is the funniest shit. they have gigabytes of traffic every month for every bed
![An excerpt of an Ars Technica article on EightSleep and the AWS outage:
Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from Eight Sleep resulted in people being awoken by beds locked into inclined positions and sweltering temperatures.
As spotted by Dexerto, the AWS outage caused smart mattress covers from Eight Sleep to malfunction. These “Pod” mattress covers connect to a physical hub, and users can set the covers to temperatures between 55° and 110° Fahrenheit via a companion app. Eight Sleep also sells smart mattress bases that let people control their bed’s elevation with the app. As of this writing, the Pods’ MSRPs range from $2,449 to $3,249, and the base has a $1,950 MSRP. Eight Sleep also sells its Autopilot feature through an annual subscription that starts at $199. Autopilot is supposed to help automatically set Eight Sleep devices to users’ optimal sleeping conditions. Pod purchases require a one-year subscription to Autopilot.
Pods have on-device buttons for controlling the temperature without a phone, but the devices require an Internet connection for the adjustments to work. That limitation led to disturbing wake-up calls during the AWS outage as Eight Sleep smart beds became uncontrollable.
As one user on Reddit said:
I woke up too hot in the middle of the night last night and kept double-tapping like a maniac to adjust the temp[erature] down since I wasn’t getting any haptic feedback. I only found out why after I got up in the morning.
It would be somewhat understandable that Autopilot stops working because Eight Sleep’s backend is down but not being able to even adjust the temperature locally is ridiculous and completely unacceptable for such a high-end (and expensive) product.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g23ztkpxs32melrdxmnlslvq/bafkreiadiqfmeii7lxxgsivuloqelokhlpmfc7ubfh4jvie2nic2ws6mpy@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Eight sleep having their beds malfunction because of anything is the funniest shit. they have gigabytes of traffic every month for every bed
19 - i have played sonic's first level tons of times in the demo, too
December 24, 2024 at 9:20 PM
19 - i have played sonic's first level tons of times in the demo, too
Fotografía ambiental, si se le puede llamar?
December 21, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Fotografía ambiental, si se le puede llamar?
Picked up Cyberpunk now that I had a better computer - there will be hijinks
December 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Picked up Cyberpunk now that I had a better computer - there will be hijinks
the socks are still to come, but sometimes i study laying down like i just got a text from a crush
October 31, 2024 at 9:10 PM
the socks are still to come, but sometimes i study laying down like i just got a text from a crush
Humanities are important to those in engineering and technical fields. It's the social half that will make sure your work will do good, not harm; it will at any point be threatened, co-opted, and it needs to be defended from this
October 20, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Humanities are important to those in engineering and technical fields. It's the social half that will make sure your work will do good, not harm; it will at any point be threatened, co-opted, and it needs to be defended from this