The entire world of home IoT devices shouldn't need an Internet connection. They should be able to work entirely based off of local network requests or other local connections (e.g. Zigbee or Thread).

I think it was a lot more than $800.

Alexa*

But then they wouldn't be able to force customers to send them analytics to over-pattern-recognize other companies into buying from them!

Think of all the startups that need this crucial sleep data! Why, how else would they get a more complete picture of how the launch of their product is impacting the other influential members of the tech circles‽

It’s not an oversight, they charge another $500 for the version with control buttons on it.

Right. Safe fail much?

As soon as they us it to watch porn inside their own brain, so immediately.

I for one was never a believer in IOT. Bait and switch, early depreciation, privacy, etc.

I mean, they might as well work around the clock since they don’t have beds to sleep in.

I mean, when shit hits the fan, my team gets together and fixes the problem together, minimal testing and code stink allowed. You just get everyone who knows the system together and have it out until everyone is on the same page

And it's a fucking bed... How complicated can it be? This is just failover logic

Can’t trust anybody who doesn’t build an offline only mode into their always online crap. I see a resurgence of the Luddites incoming. Get your old dot matrix printers going.

Oh holy shit that isn't satire

Clown dystopia, that story.

I’ve got a bunch of those Hue bulbs. So the nice thing about those is if the internet or my network is down, I can just use the light switch.

As someone who remembers what mattresses used to cost before you could buy memory foam mattresses that shipped in a small box from China, $2000 doesn't seem that bad. My wife paid $1500 for some POS Serta mattress and box spring fron some perpetually "going out of business" mattress store when we first got together in the mid 2000s. Without checking an inflation calculator, I imagine that was the equivalent to $4k today for a lumpy mattress with springs that poked your back.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game/

What a time to be alive lol

Yes.

Not unless you pay your subscription.

Didn't you see the other post on lemmy? We all getting the dumb now. It's so hot right now.