• slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      10·
      2 小时前

      It’s such a stupid buzzword and it pisses me off. aI controlled fan. Sandwich made by AI recipe. It’s like when everything was HD. HD sunglasses.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 小时前

      When we started letting tech-bros on social media hype up AI like it would be the savior for all humanity and in just a few short years we’ll all be sailing on our AI-powered yachts with AI-powered martinis and sacks of AI-powered cash from our AI-powered stock trades.

      Then when they started getting snippy and biting back and saying how it “democratizes art” and it lets us spend more time working so the AI can do our art and writing, we didn’t laugh and then drive them into the FUCKING SEA, instead we all politely respected their opinions and now we have at least a decade of useless, incremental “advances” to products we don’t want.

      You can love AI all you want, but the moment you go to bat for the corporate slop being pushed on us, you’re one of them.

      • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        5 小时前

        I know, right? Thermostats have worked since (and were invented some time in) the 1600’s, but now… no, no no… we’ve got to loop in “the whole internet” as a dependency (not to mention one’s smartphone, and probably a payment system for an ongoing monthly subscription). Even with the incentive of being continuously paid, they can’t keep it working, because it has gotten too complex and greed has gummed up the gears.

      • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        3 小时前

        Having slept outside in -40, in an unheated (there were attempts but the too late and too small a stove to make a difference), windy tent, when I had to open my bedroll with significant amounts of violence to even have a “bed” to sleep on — I would humbly like to disagree.

        Even though some of these summer nights I would definitely want an actually cool bed, never have I ever dreamed of having to sleep in those circumstances.

        No such thing as too cool — but definitely a thing as too cold.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    7 小时前

    I’ve never even heard of a heated bed. Bitch, it’s called a blanket. You get under it and your body heat will keep you warm.

    • DanForever@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      6 小时前

      I believe the problem is that it’s actively cooled, so it won’t get hotter under a blanket.

      He could always unplug it though…

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        19·
        6 小时前

        “An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.” - Mitch Hedberg

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    7 小时前

    Meanwhile, I built the bed I sleep in. Literally. My bed is made from solid Douglas fir and southern yellow pine, hand made into a proper bed frame that will last multiple lifetimes if taken care of. Want the bed heated/cooled? Fill a rubber bladder with hot water or ice. There. No fucking app required.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      4 小时前

      I might have to do this.

      I have been building stuff outside with treated lumber this spring, but working on some furniture would mean smaller projects with more attention to quality and detail.

      Sounds zen as fuck!

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 小时前

        It really is quite zen. While sanding is time consuming, it’s also a very tactile, embodied experience. It’s done as much by touch and feel as anything else.

    • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
      21·
      4 小时前

      We sleep on a mattress laid on a base with no frame, and it’s perfectly fine. We took the habit while in Japan, where we used a futon. Now I can’t imagine climbing in a bed. The only problem is the giant centipedes

    • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      7 小时前

      Even if you use plain construction pine with a simple design, it’ll probably last longer than you do. That’s what we did.

      We had a bed frame from a “nice” furniture store, and when I saw it going in, I knew immediately it wasn’t going to last. Lots of parts with screws that were really shallow and would back out easily. They had to be shallow because the wood was so thin. Hard to tell when it’s at the store, but watching the delivery people put it together, it was obvious.

      Did a few things to keep it together, but once it broke beyond reasonable repair, I made a simple platform bed frame and called it good. Has lots more underbed storage space and you could probably build a tank on top of it.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 小时前

        Yup. The bed was my first big woodworking project, and I just made it out of some construction lumber as well, though with a lot of working. I built it off one of the Ana White designs.

  • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    6 小时前

    I thought this was a writing prompt for some future dystopian hell but, no, turns out it’s our current dystopian hell.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      5 小时前

      Makes me recall something from years ago. My future ex-wife at the time was telling me about the drama when someone she knew’s car key’s battery had gone flat and they couldn’t get into their car, and had to call RACQ etc.

      I said ‘you can still just put the key in the lock and turn it, you know?’. That apparently hadn’t occurred to them.

  • Green Wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    34·
    12 小时前

    Whether or not this guy is kidding I don’t care, his video “Firefox is hard to love” made him seem like a dipshit looking for ragebate engagement for his shitty video. So I wouldn’t be too shocked if he actually got himself in this situation.

    • Opisek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      11 小时前

      There are way more videos like that. I quickly developed a severe dislike for him and his clickbaity JavaScript clout content.

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 小时前

    Note that I bought a Pod earlier on and have been upgraded to Pod 4 from warranty due to leak. It was obnoxiously cloud controlled from the start, but originally was much cheaper than now and it included a mattress and there was no mandatory monthly fee to just use the damn thing. I will give them credit that the Pod 4 is quite comfortable, the cooling/heating is nice, and the device is nice and quiet. For the most part the hardware design hits it out of the park, except for their aversion to local controls, which seems mostly driven by their software bullshit.

    So first, that hardware control they added isn’t exactly awesome. People kept demanding buttons on the base or a remote or something. They smugly declared that modeling the earbud ‘tap N times to do an operation’ was the “correct” way because remotes are too easy to lose and no one would want to touch the base. Earbuds have to settle for that crap because of lack of surface area to control, your whole ass bed doesn’t have to make concessions to crappy hardware UI. So now I have double tap, or triple tap that has different meanings based on context, and even then only if the bed is ‘on’ which you can only do from the app and it turns itself ‘off’ automatically, so you can’t just ‘cheat’ and use the local hardware controls because those only are enabled at the behest of their bullshit cloud service.

    For the software side, it’s trying to force you to go to their servers for no damn reason for the consumer. It will only deign to talk to a smartphone long enough to get connected to their cloud presence, and only toward that function. It also wants to “auto-control” your temperature and will frequently decide it knows better than you how you want the temperature to be and auto-adjust. It general the whole thing reeks of “we are smarter than you, and we will be all weird about all sorts of facets of this thing”.

    And of course, it shows in their pricing. They got rid of the mattress and raised the price to $3,000 for just the cover and also now mandate a $17/month subscription plan on top of that for new customers (we grandfathered into the old situation, no monthly plan as well as what was a more reasonably priced product).

    No way in hell would I buy it as it stands now, but if they at least enabled local control, ditched the monthly payment requirement bullshit and cut the price back, then I would be an unambiguous fan.

    • LePoisson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 小时前

      Why the fuck would anyone buy this?

      I hate that there is (apparently) an actual market for this product. We live in a society of idiots.

      Uhh no offense to you since I kind of included you in the idiots category there.

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 小时前

        Frankly, I was super reluctant even back then, but I’m not the only one in the household so my vote is not the only one that counts.

        In terms of water based temperature controlled bed, there were two options at the time I could see, Chilipad and Eight Sleep. I favored the local controls of Chilipad, but reviewers really seemed to prefer the Eight Sleep for noise and comfort of the pad, and at the time they were fairly competitive price wise with the cloud based control at the time being a nuisance, but not enough to overcome the review advantage Eight Sleep had. Also Eight Sleep had mattress included back then and that was a plus for them, since we needed a new mattress anyway.

        I will say the comfort of the temperature control is fantastic, after trying a lot of solutions to try to get it done, water actually got it there. I am a big fan of the general product category. If one is into sleep tracking, I suppose this is the most comfortable way to do it, though I don’t understand the general value of that use case personally.

        Now, I’m still not happy about the cloud control facet, but I’m tolerating it so long as it is free. If they shut down my grandfathered status, then I’m going to FreeSleep up my device. If it should stop working, then I’ll probably go ChiliPad if they haven’t gone as badly. I can’t imagine selecting Eight Sleep at it’s price point and subscription model at this point in time, but back then it seemed a competitive choice.

    • YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      9 小时前

      I had to Google this… I hate this shit. How brain dead do you have to be to buy a bed with a subscription service!? This is some cybertruck level bullshit

      • Stabbitha@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 小时前

        Agreed, I’ve got a normal-assed king size bed with a regular dumb heated blanket and different sheets for summer and winter. I’m sure as fuck not gonna pay some company a monthly fee to dictate the capabilities of my bed.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      10 小时前

      begrudgingly updating controls forcing server/auth AI temperature modifications

      Sounds like they are circling the drain IMO.

      Wonder If I can pick up a mattress/pad on the cheap after they go under and DIY a solution.

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 小时前

        I’ve seen two things.

        One was a guy that picked up a used cover without the base station and hooked it up to an aquarium temperature controller, replacing all the brains. No biometrics, but who cares.

        Another is https://github.com/throwaway31265/free-sleep Though no idea if, for example, Pod 5 implemented signed firmware or a future product will to block it, and it requires some disassembly and extra equipment to replace the firmware.

  • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    42·
    12 小时前

    its not dystopian, just a shit product

    im here with my silly, un-epic Normal Mattress™ that doesn’t have any temp control. it is somewhat cold right now, and I don’t feel that’s dystopian

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 小时前

      Well, I run fucking hot, so I would love a mattress cover that can cool me down, without having to blast AC on myself all night, so there is that. On the other hand for the price of Eight sleep or whatever it’s called I can buy at least 2 AC units.

        • Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          7 小时前

          Yeah I’ve never seen these temp controlled beds as anything other than "Oh that’s a neat idea, bet I can make that myself’

    • unalivejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      11 小时前

      Should’ve upgraded to the Pod4, which will get a “upgrade” after the Pod5 comes out which removes features so you go buy a Pod6.