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I'd rather have a survival sleeping bag and sleep on the floor than use a smart bed..
The entrepreneur in me sees an opportunity to corner the market on Medieval-style straw pallets. No AI involved in manufacturing.
Set up in some woods with bears and you've probably still got odds of survival.
Hammocks.are the true way forward. Embrace navel history!
Yeah man, I can’t wait for all locks, all electric meters, all cars, all bank accounts, etc to be smart tech that’s linked to each of our digital ID’s, so anytime one of us breaks the j’ws arbitrary community standards rules, or reaches their arbitrary limits for consumption of whatever, they’ll just lock us out of whatever they want.
You left your 15 minute city for too long, bad move, goyim, now your bank card doesn’t work. You can’t drive anywhere today since you already hit your carbon credit limit for the month. Damn it, no more air conditioning this July, you overused it in the first half of the month. Oh shit, they locked you out of your own fridge because you didn’t stare at the screen while the minute long commercial played. That sucks, they locked you out of your shipping container tiny house because you criticized the carbon credit system on social media.
Why would your bed need to be smart?
It's for the clique who has to always be on the 'bleeding edge' of technology, the same kind of tools who would regularly buy shit from The Sharper Image to show off to their friends.
I still like my good ol' Japanese futon.
I can see use in a smart bed for things like apnea or people who need bed rotations and stuff. But outside of that, a dumb bed is better
Even people who would benefit from such a device would be retarded to trust big tech to operate it. An open source alternative would be a very good idea.
Why the hell does it need to connect outside of LAN?
So it can sell your biometric data.
So it can steal your data. This applies to any smart home device, although I can imagine there being some benefit to being able to manage other devices remotely. A smart bed shouldn't require any network access.
I think if we set our paranoia aside we can all see the benefits or uses in most "Smart" Products.
Nobody should do that though because they are always being used either nefariously or incompetently and will fail you immensely sooner or later despite being multiple times the cost of the standard.
I wouldn't use an Internet of Things appliance or anything beyond a hockey puck on my counter that tells me the weather. I have never integrated my echo with anything else and wouldn't.
I can see these systems glitching out and flooding your home with gas from your stove, or turning off the heat during winter or unlocking your front door in the middle of the night.
I don't even want that. My smartphone is already enough of a gaping security hole as it is
Don't mind me, over here sleeping on my Serta mattress and box spring, using my dumb late 1990s refrigerator, cooking on a late 1980s electric range, and washing my clothes in late 1990s Speed Queen all mechanical top load washer and front load dryer.
My old flip phone is smarter than every appliance I own, let alone my smart phone.
I spent $800 cdn on a bed made in Japan... it's nice!
(That's about three-fiddy USD, eh?)
If you bought this type of "smart" bed then the bed is probably smarter than you are
Why the fuck would you connect your bed to the internet?
Things have errors. Errors happen. My (dumb) thermostat once ran out of batteries mid-heating-cycle-changeover and the furnace didn't get the order to turn off the heat cycle, and so ran on max power for a couple hours until I got home, house was 80 degrees!
But this seems like a PREVENTABLE error. And not only that, a blatantly obvious preventable error. The bed should never have been connected to anything except Bluetooth. Even bluetooth seems excessive, just have a remote attached to it, but I can at least see the value in a wireless option. But why does Amazon need to know if your bed is in use or not?
Sounds like smart anything is for dumb people.
If your stuff hinges on someone or something else being at the controls, then it's not smart, it's just making you dumb, and taking away control from things that obviously do not need these controls.