You mustâve heard the âwhy is my washing machine sending soo much data to cloud?â joke from a few years ago.
Well, now replace âwashing machineâ with âbedâ
Quoting Michael Zimmermann
Is 16+gb/mo a normal amount of telemetry? Can you not do any local compute of âget hotâ or âget coldâ with a multi core processor and multiple gigabytes of memory? Canât just repeat the previous nights settings?
Itâs bad enough that you slapped a $ 200/yr subscription on things, worse that it doesnât work at all without internet.
This whole thing came to light after many instances of EightSleep mattresses (pods) stopped functioning due to an AWS outage (which is hilarious and horrific at the same time).
This reminds me of a joke (and a truth):
If you want to know how dependent something is to the world, turn it off
A single high-value region on AWS went down recently and several external entities were disrupted and EightSleep pods were one of them.
EightSleep is fine but anything else thatâs very critical is not.
This global incident should be a wake up call for dependent services to plan and support failovers. For consumer products to support offline mode. (either ways for a temp controlled bed to depend on cloud to function normally is ridiculous to a layman).
i'm referencing a post that can be found here.
I tried to make a joke on x dot com