This is why I made my own bed, with my own two hands, out of solid Douglas for and southern pine. Let's see AWS crash an inert object made of wood and metal.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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Online first, and they're only now working on offline mode? Okay...
Brilliant!
this is worse than getting locked out of your smart oven for not paying subscription
Build your shit to be fail safe. The idea that this was less bad if you self hosted is ridiculous. You will have much more outages that way.
You may be right to criticize cloud everything, but as I said, just not the problem here. Only the trigger.
Might wanna get that return shipment prepped, my insomniac friends out there.
smart BEDS? Look, I got a bed that has a removal part that has USB chargers, that is all I need... What the FUCK do I need a bed with an internet connection?