Yeah it's funny until you realize someone actually paid 2k for a bed that needs Amazon to lie flat. There's plenty of EU clouds that don't melt every time AWS sneezes like Univirtual or Infomaniak. Feels good not having your mattress depend on Jeff's uptime 🤭
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Every day I want to live more like this:
I'd rather a happy medium of local control where it can be hooked up to HomeAssistant. I like smart home when the smarts stay in my home!
I was talking about this recently with someone (read: ranting as they nodded sympathetically) and I finished up by saying "what's the point of 'smart' tech if the humans who use it are steadily disempowered and ultimately, made less smart?"
I've recently been dabbling in HomeAssistant and learning how to set things up properly feels like it's been making me more smart.
Kasa TPlink sockets and switches can be set to only run local on Homeassistant., with some github hacking help. Don't need their cloud app at all
Yeah, I absolutely adore being able to set up things that make my life easier without getting in the way and without worrying it'll all ruin my day if something stops working.
We use smart light switches that look and work like regular switches, but with Z-wave control built in. Controlling otherwise non-smart lights is great, but then so is being able to trigger things with double and triple presses!
My favorite example is that my espresso machine takes a moment to warm up in the morning, so I have it on a Z-wave outlet for remote control. I can turn it on from my bedroom by double-clicking my bedroom light switch on the way out of the room in the morning. By the time I collect the cups from the office, and get them cleaned out in the kitchen, the machine is usually ready to use.
I'm rather close to a downward triple-press in the bedroom kicking off a full bedtime routine that turns off all the lights, TVs, locks the house doors (with feedback from a smart speaker if that fails), locks the car doors, turns the temperature down a couple of degrees, and arms the house alarm.
A downward triple-press in my office locks the family's computers.
All 100% locally, and I adore it!
I haven't gone lookimg but I'm sure I could find acceptable alternatives. I've just never felt the need to blow so much money and time for so little gain.
It gives the phrase "you've made your bed, now sleep on it" a whole new level of meaning. :)
More "we made your bed, and you don't own it."
I wish there was a law stipulating that smart devices must allow for local control. That'd never happen in the USA (since companies couldn't make as much money selling the data, and we can't hurt the poor companies' revenue streams), but maybe it's happen in Europe one day.
Aren't there enough zigbee devices anyway?
Most Zigbee devices are locked into working with proprietary gateways to the cloud. The last leg of connection being not-wifi doesn't change that.
Matter seems like a step in a somewhat good direction for establishing open standards so devices from different vendors can be combined and more importantly, controlled from a hub of user's choice.
Oof okay so they definitely fucked up architecture wise BUT:
We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done.
Douchebag CEO right there. God knows he was just like FIX IT NOWWWW to them and forced them to work overtime because of this. This is a complete rearchitecture. Sure it can be done, but it's not a one night change.
And then he went to bed, leaving it to his serfs.
Anything that relies on an internet connection that should be unnecessary is a bad idea.
Internet of Shit. It's like the mobile app I'm supposed to use with my fridge. I don't use it. Why? Because it's a damned fridge.
Eight Sleep also sells its Autopilot feature through an annual subscription that starts at $199.
I don't really want my bed running stop signs and murdering innocent folks.
It's entirely possible they've also murdered criminals ...
Save money and sleep on a pile of dead leaves directly on the floor. 😃
Or a regular old dumb mattress, I guess... But that's boring.
Its only boring, if everything works as it should. My old mattress was dysfunctional and I had to fight with it every night. I'm so glad my current one is boring and forgettable.
I look for "boring" in most products. Excitement is for experiences, not furniture.
I feel the same about software development. For personal projects, I'll often use a technology stack I'm very familiar with, like C# and MySQL on a Debian Linux server. Maybe not the fanciest, but they're proven, reliable technologies that have been around for a long time, and will likely still be around a long time from now.
New frameworks, libraries, and languages pop up all the time, but some of the ecosystems move way too quickly. I have some Node.js sites I built years ago that I can't even run any more without major changes.
Relevant: https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/happiness-is-a-boring-stack.html
This is a great post that I hadn't seen before. Thanks for the link!
I bought a cooling cover for my bed last year and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever bought. I’m looking for the one I wanted to buy I wanted to avoid anything that communicated offsite because why the hell does my bed need to talk to a server?? The one I ended up buying has some basic touch controls and does 100% of what it needs to.
What is a cooling cover for a bed?
A thin-ish water filled mattress topper hooked to a cooling system to try and maintain a temperature. Even with A/C and a fan I can still get quite warm while I sleep and getting one of these systems has helped me a lot with having a more well-rested sleep.
The brand that I went with: https://hydrosnooze.com/
Thanks for the link, I really want to see if NDIS might fund something like this. Does it slide around a lot? Also does it play nice with your fitted sheet?
It stayed fairly stationary when I used it, it did start to drift over consecutive nights so I’d pull it back into position a couple of times a week. But I’m also only talking about 50mm or so of movement.
I can’t remember it causing any problems with the other sheets. Though some of my fitted sheets are well past their use limit and it could just be my tolerance to them not fitting that well to begin with.
My new washer wants to send me a text when it's done. Makes this wimpy little noise I can't hear 5 ft away. I think it's embarrassed by this shit also.
The only thing I had that needed internet to function was the authomatic thermostat. Honnestly it just works better now that I forgot to tell it the new wifi password.
Only because the UI on the device is dog shit. Why is it so hard to just set I want x temp during the day then this time at night from the device?
Oh shit that looks like the Fallout 76 Enclave cot! And you say its smart‽ Give me 20!