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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I love the idea of the eight sleep bed but cannot get over how it’s cloud dependent, to the point that it fucks up a basic schedulewhen the cloud goes down, and I cannot get over the cost of the subscription on top of the ludicrous initial expense.

Now it’s advising alcohol to reduce snoring; that’s just brilliant.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They can be jailbroken for full local control. The internals are raspberry pis. There are projects that will replace the ui with open source alternatives and disable the data collection.

    Its a good bed once you strip away the stupid software gimmicks.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I have heard that there’s some cloud breaking work. I keep hoping to find one on marketplace for a reasonable price. I haven’t tried to find a good teardown but at the retail price they must be making bank or their manufacturing process needs work.

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