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@BernieTheBernie said in Internet of shit:
@dcon said in Internet of shit:
How many people will become hackerz just for the fun of controlling such stupid people's tails?
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@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
that they could still load a modified image as a bug was preventing the system from not verifying if the device was unlocked.
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You don't have permission to access "http://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas/remote-thermostat-adjustment-texas-energy-shortage/285-5acf2bc5-54b7-4160-bffe-1f9a5ef4362a" on this server.Oh, well.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
80 degrees?!?
I guess if you murder everyone, they’ll stop using power soon enough.
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That thermostat joke is old. Look:
Voice on TV: 3 people died in Fulda after their smart home closed all windows and doors, and then set the thermostat to 70°C (160 F)"
Voice from Alexa (or what ever): Hi hi hi
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@DogsB aRTIFishAL intEllIgENc
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I don't know if it has been posted but if it hasn't that is a link to a $3,000 IoT mattress. I've seen mention in articles I scanned reviewing it that it has artificial intelligence also. Throw in some Blockchain, an open endpoint exposing the frequency that all customers have sex along with their name and address and SSN and CC# and then a automatic firmware update with a horrible bug burning all the customers alive and we can just go ahead and close this topic.
I hope there are some lithium batteries inside those mattresses. We can thin the herd in a hurry.
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@Polygeekery The Pod Pro mattress for pod people?
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery The Pod Pro mattress for pod people?
For professional pod people.
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
automatic firmware update with a horrible bug burning all the customers alive
The reason for your interest becomes clearer…
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@Polygeekery: if you set aside the price and the IoT nonsense, the idea of a thermo-regulated mattress sounds interesting.
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@Zerosquare there are interesting features, no doubt about that. But I see no reason that couldn't all be done with purely local control. I frequently find myself either:
- Cold and needing to get another or thicker cover, which I usually don't wake up quite enough to do so but don't sleep deeply enough to be well rested
- Too warm to sleep as well as I would otherwise but now I can turn on or increase the speed of our ceiling fans with a voice command or my phone
The idea of using the mattress to start your wakeup process is also interesting. I installed WS2812B LED strips and crown molding in one of my son's rooms and it has a "sunrise" mode that I've considered doing in our room.
But there's no fucking way I'm paying $3,000 for a mattress that would stop working if they go out of business. Either their costs are astronomical or they're going for an absolutely outrageous profit margin because even their retrofit mattress pad is nearly $2K. They will be out of business as soon as the VC money stalls for even a moment.
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@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery: if you set aside the price and the IoT nonsense, the idea of a thermo-regulated mattress sounds interesting.
Yeah, kinda agreed. I have some doubts as to how well it'll work (aside from the IoT nonsense)
Its unique grid pattern creates a total cooling surface of 7 square feet on a Queen size Pod. It uses water to facilitate the continuous absorption and removal of up to 20W of heat from each side of the bed, helping you and your partner stay comfortably cool.
20W sounds like ... not very much. I briefly googled and apparently an adult generates 70-90W at sleep (source). Some of this will of course be cooled by the air, and removing heat where it's trapped is maybe not that a bad idea. The other thing is that the cooling unit is in your bedroom, so the overall heat stays in the room (plus overheads from running the cooler).
So, if the room is hot already, I suspect this won't be super helpful. if the room is at a reasonable temperature ... well, my current mattress manages to keep cool enough as well.
To heat and cool the water, the Pod uses thermo-electric cooling elements in conjunction with a Heat Sink and two premium cooling fans like those found in upscale gaming PCs --- so silent you won’t notice when your Pod is on.
IIRC, thermo-electric cooling (=Peltier effect) isn't exactly know for its stellar efficiency, at least compared to the more conventional coolers...
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I always wanted a cooling pillow so my head doesn't get too hot when sleeping.
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@cvi said in Internet of shit:
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery: if you set aside the price and the IoT nonsense, the idea of a thermo-regulated mattress sounds interesting.
Yeah, kinda agreed. I have some doubts as to how well it'll work (aside from the IoT nonsense)
Its unique grid pattern creates a total cooling surface of 7 square feet on a Queen size Pod. It uses water to facilitate the continuous absorption and removal of up to 20W of heat from each side of the bed, helping you and your partner stay comfortably cool.
20W sounds like ... not very much. I briefly googled and apparently an adult generates 70-90W at sleep (source). Some of this will of course be cooled by the air, and removing heat where it's trapped is maybe not that a bad idea. The other thing is that the cooling unit is in your bedroom, so the overall heat stays in the room (plus overheads from running the cooler).
So, if the room is hot already, I suspect this won't be super helpful. if the room is at a reasonable temperature ... well, my current mattress manages to keep cool enough as well.
It's more of a problem for memory foam mattresses, which do tend to trap a lot of heat. Which isn't to say that they've found a great way of doing that.
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@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
@Zerosquare said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery: if you set aside the price and the IoT nonsense, the idea of a thermo-regulated mattress sounds interesting.
Yeah, kinda agreed. I have some doubts as to how well it'll work (aside from the IoT nonsense)
Its unique grid pattern creates a total cooling surface of 7 square feet on a Queen size Pod. It uses water to facilitate the continuous absorption and removal of up to 20W of heat from each side of the bed, helping you and your partner stay comfortably cool.
20W sounds like ... not very much. I briefly googled and apparently an adult generates 70-90W at sleep (source). Some of this will of course be cooled by the air, and removing heat where it's trapped is maybe not that a bad idea. The other thing is that the cooling unit is in your bedroom, so the overall heat stays in the room (plus overheads from running the cooler).
So, if the room is hot already, I suspect this won't be super helpful. if the room is at a reasonable temperature ... well, my current mattress manages to keep cool enough as well.
It's more of a problem for memory foam mattresses, which do tend to trap a lot of heat. Which isn't to say that they've found a great way of doing that.
Geothermal mattress cooling spike. Fight me.
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
Fight me.
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@TimeBandit A balmy summer night in
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@dkf said in Internet of shit:
summer
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@dkf said in Internet of shit:
summer
You know, when the temperature gets up to single digits. (yes
abs(temp)
is still single digits)
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@dcon said in Internet of shit:
C or F, either one
K
Neat, you can just carve the bed out of the then solid air.
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@cvi That's the way!
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@cvi That's the way!
You gotta get the mosquito out first, maybe more than one if it's a big bed.
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
You gotta get the mosquito out first,
Already taken care of by nature
Mosquitoes, like all insects, are cold-blooded creatures. As a result, they are incapable of regulating body heat and their temperature is essentially the same as their surroundings. Mosquitoes function best at 80 degrees F, become lethargic at 60 degrees F, and cannot function below 50 degrees F.
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@TimeBandit Sadly, around here, summer temperatures are 80+ almost 24/7 during the summer. It barely drops below 80 in the wee hours of the morning. And the mosquitos are fairly small and quiet, so mostly you don't notice you've been bitten until it starts itching a few minutes later.
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@HardwareGeek said in Internet of shit:
@TimeBandit Sadly, around here, summer temperatures are 80+ almost 24/7 during the summer. It barely drops below 80 in the wee hours of the morning. And the mosquitos are fairly small and quiet, so mostly you don't notice you've been bitten until it starts itching a few minutes later.
Yeah those don't even cast a particularly cooling shadow.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
Mosquitoes function best at 80 degrees F
For a mosquito-definition of "best".
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@DogsB
This reply deserves way moreupvoteslikesThey A/B tested it, but turns out removing that option made ✨ENGAGEMENT✨ go way up (as measured by UI interaction)
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
$3,000 IoT mattress.
$3000 for a high quality mattress isn't unheard of.
But I doubt this IoT one is going to be even average quality.
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@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
$3,000 IoT mattress.
$3000 for a high quality mattress isn't unheard of.
But I doubt this IoT one is going to be even average quality.
Solaire? Praise the Sun.
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@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
But I doubt this IoT one is going to be even average quality.
How could that be?! It comes with its own built-in heater and bitcoin miner…
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@DogsB said in Internet of shit:
I love the dev's response:
"Unplug it. It will work correctly then."
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@Tsaukpaetra this has to be satirical.
Unplug your oven... Because you can normally even reach those plugs. Better try flipping the fuse switch.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
@DogsB said in Internet of shit:
I love the dev's response:
"Unplug it. It will work correctly then."
The Dev's response isn't that it will work correctly when unplugged, but that this is an obvious problem and safety issue. Until there's a real fix for the problem, you can mitigate the safety issue by not using it and thus not burning your house down.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear wouldn’t it be nice if your house not burning down wasn’t dependent on some webdev-turned-IoS-monkey not fucking things up for five minutes straight?
Those were the days.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
My printer regularly shifts around. I've gotten used to it such that I know whether I've slept from his many times I've heard it get off.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@GuyWhoKilledBear wouldn’t it be nice if your house not burning down wasn’t dependent on some webdev-turned-IoS-monkey not fucking things up for five minutes straight?
Those were the days.Yeah, it'd be nice. But things broke in the good old days too, and the advice the guy gave wasn't "have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@Tsaukpaetra this has to be satirical.
Unplug your oven... Because you can normally even reach those plugs. Better try flipping the fuse switch.
AIUI, this is a countertop appliance, more like toaster oven or microwave than your built-in oven, so it would actually be plugged into an accessible outlet.
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Internet of shit:
The Dev's response isn't that it will work correctly when unplugged, but that this is an obvious problem and safety issue. Until there's a real fix for the problem, you can mitigate the safety issue by not using it and thus not burning your house down.
This. Although it still doesn't excuse the fact that you can't turn the damned thing off in the first place, and I'd probably mitigate the safety issue by returning it, demanding my money back, and siccing the CPSC on their incompetent butts.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@GuyWhoKilledBear wouldn’t it be nice if your house not burning down wasn’t dependent on some webdev-turned-IoS-monkey not fucking things up for five minutes straight?
Does anyone sell IoS smoke detectors yet?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
My printer regularly shifts around.
I got a new printer recently. I don't trust it -- I've piled stuff on it to pin it down and make sure it stays put.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Internet of shit:
My printer regularly shifts around.
Printers are shifty.
I've heard it get off.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@GuyWhoKilledBear wouldn’t it be nice if your house not burning down wasn’t dependent on some webdev-turned-IoS-monkey not fucking things up for five minutes straight?
Does anyone sell IoS smoke detectors yet?
Duh.