Everything doesn't need to be connected to the internet

Spicy Nug · Tuesday at 12:55 PM

My husband shared this with me.

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

Why on Earth does a bed need to be reliant on Amazon AWS? This is just crazy to me.

Internet of things is what they call it but I think it's just crazy. Does anyone else feel like this or is it just me?

t0mmy · Tuesday at 1:03 PM

I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

t2van · Tuesday at 1:27 PM

Spicy Nug said:
My husband shared this with me.

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

Why on Earth does a bed need to be reliant on Amazon AWS? This is just crazy to me.

Internet of things is what they call it but I think it's just crazy. Does anyone else feel like this or is it just me?

Imagine all the "pillow talk" on some server...

The bed is mad. It's as bad as a fridge, coffee maker and so on..

t0mmy said:
I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

Yes.

But you see it more and more how many BIG companies are tied to shopify. If anything happened how quick could some of those companies redeploy.

The more we rely on the few the more vulnerable we become.

It's a sad state of affairs in tech, manufacturing and our modern life as a whole

Aidan · Tuesday at 1:43 PM

You either adapt to the modern world or you stay in the past.

Humans sleep 1/3 of their lifes. Why would we not try to improve upon something that affects our lifes so much.

Anytime someone criticizes about ’why everything needs to be connected to internet’ just screams that they are an angry old impotent man who is getting too old for the modern world.

But, that’s just the story of life. There will be a time when I’m that old impotent man who doesn’t understand something that’s ahead of my time.

RiskyStuff · Tuesday at 3:44 PM

It's still new invention. There will be a fallback added in the future.

ZeroCool · Tuesday at 5:16 PM

t0mmy said:
Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

Agreed, but we all knew this was coming. The attempt at a digital ID for citizens was sadly inevitable the moment it was even joked about.

roydan · Tuesday at 10:51 PM

Aidan said:
You either adapt to the modern world or you stay in the past.

Humans sleep 1/3 of their lifes. Why would we not try to improve upon something that affects our lifes so much.

Anytime someone criticizes about ’why everything needs to be connected to internet’ just screams that they are an angry old impotent man who is getting too old for the modern world.

But, that’s just the story of life. There will be a time when I’m that old impotent man who doesn’t understand something that’s ahead of my time.

At the end of the day, product that rely on a service by another company have a built in flaw.

Imagine this bed when the wifi is out? It has no offline mode.

Products need to have a fallback option if the infrastructure they are built upon becomes unstable.

Can you imagine a bed that stops working if the internet is out? This is not me being old and grumpy, it's common sense.

t2van · Tuesday at 11:02 PM

roydan said:
At the end of the day, product that rely on a service by another company have a built in flaw.

Imagine this bed when the wifi is out? It has no offline mode.

Products need to have a fallback option if the infrastructure they are built upon becomes unstable.

Can you imagine a bed that stops working if the internet is out? This is not me being old and grumpy, it's common sense.

Exactly

End of the day it's a bed. Why does it need internet access. Don't think anything has changed in terms of the bed apart from the materials we lie on, and that's relative to where you are in the world.

If it's not broke don't fix it.

Whats next. Floor tiles or carpet that requires internet access to "function"

ggmopa · 2025-10-22T02:17:44-0700

t0mmy said:
I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

It's a financial merry-go-round; they invest in and support each other's companies. All the more reason to embrace open source as much as possible imho fuck big tech's false economy

RiskyStuff · 2025-10-22T06:05:20-0700

This freaking bed is 3500 euro.

This is insane!

It doesn't even hug you!

Gives me Bryan Johnson vibes.

Rem · 2025-10-22T06:14:18-0700

t0mmy said:
I did some laughing at my man Musk trolling basically the whole internet - X and all his companies didn’t budge.

Just goes to show how fragile things are, why on earth are massive companies like that relying solely on AWS, its mind boggling.

Also makes me even more weary and against this dystopian digital ID bullshit!

That article brings a funny side to it though to be fair, however under the surface it showed how vulnerable the “ecosystem” of online life is.

or i think it was last year
MS/cs went down
and so many airports hubs went dead too

all eggs in 1 basket
ITS Ms/AMZ/GOOGLE
THEY WONT DIE
righttttttttt

Aidan · 2025-10-22T17:35:11-0700

roydan said:
At the end of the day, product that rely on a service by another company have a built in flaw.

Imagine this bed when the wifi is out? It has no offline mode.

Products need to have a fallback option if the infrastructure they are built upon becomes unstable.

Can you imagine a bed that stops working if the internet is out? This is not me being old and grumpy, it's common sense.

You are referring to AWS as some other company that could go bust any day.

I mean it's still not ideal, but if you're a small company with a small dev. team, it's just retarded to spend time developing for 'doomsday' scenarios.

It literally does not matter one bit if your internet connected bed is a bit hotter than usual for one day WHEN something as unlikely as AWS servers go completely dark.

RiskyStuff said:
This freaking bed is 3500 euro.

This is insane!

It doesn't even hug you!

Gives me Bryan Johnson vibes.

3.5k is cheap as fuck when it comes to high quality beds, lmao.

Think more like 10-15k for a bed that's made-to-measure for your body, etc.

Preying Mantis · 2025-10-22T18:37:52-0700

Aidan said:
You are referring to AWS as some other company that could go bust any day.

I mean it's still not ideal, but if you're a small company with a small dev. team, it's just retarded to spend time developing for 'doomsday' scenarios.

It literally does not matter one bit if your internet connected bed is a bit hotter than usual for one day WHEN something as unlikely as AWS servers go completely dark.

Any company can go bust that's the problem I think.

There were big companies back in the 1900s people thought wouldn't go anywhere and now they aren't around. Some of them were even early tech companies.

Aidan said:
3.5k is cheap as fuck when it comes to high quality beds, lmao.

Think more like 10-15k for a bed that's made-to-measure for your body, etc.

Yeah bro mattresses by itself run for like $3k sometimes haha.

roydan · 2025-10-22T21:00:29-0700

Aidan said:
I mean it's still not ideal, but if you're a small company with a small dev. team, it's just retarded to spend time developing for 'doomsday' scenarios.

It's not a doomsday scenario, the bed has no offline mode.
What happens if your own wifi goes down, if your cat ate the router or any of one million things that can cause the internet to go out?
I'm not talking about zombie attacks, these are things that happen everyday.

Overall I think this is a bit naive to not consider bigger companies shutting down, or be offline for a few hours. Every worker strike can shut such a service for a day or two.

Companies shut down all the time, and it's not just companies from a 100 years ago. Toys'R'Us, Sears, Blockbuster, Kodak, AltaVista and a million other examples.

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