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I found a backdoor into my bed

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Re: I found a backdoor into my bed

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Post by geoelectric »

adiabatty wrote: post #233
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

If you’d rather not buy another gizmo for a function your phone has likely gobbled up already… iOS, iPadOS, and macOS have a pretty great built-in background-noise generator these days. While lots of actual beaches can go dead silent and then have a loud wave crash in, the waves that It’s available in Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio & Visual -> Background Sounds. You’ll have to download the sounds each once, but a…

You can also assign it to the triple click shortcut in Accessibility. You probably can to the double/triple back taps too, though I haven’t tried.

I do use a standalone Lectrofan for sleep as I prefer my noise machine to be across the room and Alexa-controlled (via a smart switch), plus it’s louder and the brown noise is “browner.”

But I keep iOS BG sound mapped to the triple-click shortcut for when noise-cancelling just isn’t enough in loud restaurants etc. It works great with AirPods for reducing my noise sensitivity issues.

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Post by password4321 »

flanbiscuit wrote: post #248
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

I also need white noise to sleep. At home I have a simple one that plugs in and generates noise with fan. Looks almost exactly like this: https://res.cloudinary.com/guest-supply/image/upload/f_auto,... When I travel I take this small portable rechargeable one: https://www.amazon.com/Machine-Babelio-Adults-Non-looping-So... I'm on android so I don't have the built in sounds that iOS has

Android app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.pmarks.chromadoze/

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Post by seba_dos1 »

hinkley wrote: post #56
moolcool wrote: post #31

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I wonder if there'd be a cottage industry for new control boards which de-shittify IOT devices but keep their functionality. Like buy the bed, and then buy a little pre-programmed ESP32 logic board to replace the factory board.

If smart devices were required to have standard pinouts that were arduino or raspberry Pi compatible, that would make me so happy.

Plenty of those have just standard ESP8266 modules inside that you can program yourself, even with Arduino IDE if you want.

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Post by tofof »

quickgist wrote: post #194
vl wrote: post #110

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I use latex topper because of this. It works like foam, but has cold feel to it, and hypoallergenic dust mite resistant on top of that.

How can a latex topper be hypoallergenic when tons of people are allergic to latex?

Because the Talalay and Dunlop processes involve vulcanization at 115+ C to turn the material into a foamed rubber, which denatures the proteins that the immune system recognizes and overreacts to. Denatured protein - think egg white once it's heated and turns white, instead of clear - has its structure radically altered. The molecules get pulled apart, tangled with others, and can in no way be recognized by the antibodies that trigger the immune response.

Similarly, Talalay latex mattress material is usually only about 30% natural and 70% synthetic, and the synthetic does not cause immune response.

If you powder the natural material and directly expose it to IgE, the dominant protein of interest for allergies, you can get a reaction (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10436396/), but in practice with sheets and the outer cloth covering on the mattress basically no proteins ever come into contact with the body. And even in that study only Hev B I was detectable, which is only one of many latex proteins that trigger the immune response, and only 3 of the 21 tested human sera actually had a reaction to the direct mixing with the powdered latex. As far as I understand it, there has never been a confirmed case of an allergic reaction to a latex mattress.

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Post by alwa »

idiotsecant wrote: post #284
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

For the price of a white noise machine you can buy a 10A squirrel cage blower, some mdf to make a box out of, a contactor, and a smart plug and have a white noise machine that filters your air, turns on and off from your phone, and also makes white noise. It can also act as a table to put your phone on and a charge point. I had the two problems of poor sleep without white noise and a dog allergy and now I have neithe…

Throw a high-grade air filter over the intake and you’ve got an air purifier, too!

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Post by senectus1 »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #3

The state of the product's security wasn't unexpected. I was, however, shocked by this part: > I was willing to overlook: > The bed costs $2,000 > It won’t function if the internet goes down > Basic features are behind an additional $19/mo subscription > The bed’s only controls are via mobile app Nothing about this bed should depend on off-site servers. Nothing about the product should necessitate a subscription fee.…

these are non starters

  >   It won’t function if the internet goes down
  >   Basic features are behind an additional $19/mo subscription
I'd pay more, a LOT more for a good bed. but if its not self hostable and without a need for a subscription... its a non starter

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

defrost wrote: post #290
BizarroLand wrote: post #265

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Github issue: My e-ass wiper mistook one of my testicles for poo and ripped it off. Please fix

Ticket raised, please accept complementary Neuticles eVoucher (includes shipping, log on via Q-code to specify required size).

Don’t fall for this. I purchased this product then they pushed a bunch of the basic features behind a paywall. The ‘vibrate on SMS’ is worth it if you do go that route and don’t mind proxying your phone comms through their servers, though.

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Post by theonething »

lifthrasiir wrote: post #269
jimt1234 wrote: post #223

> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I sleep great with it. Also, it's not connected to the internet and doesn't require an app. Bad: I basically can't sleep without it. I have to travel with it (camping!). I even purchase…

I had insomnia for over a decade and all it took to fix that was just weeks of sleep inducer followed by regular melatoin takes. I assumed it will take some gizmos to do that, but apparently it wasn't. Once you could lock your sleep into the daily pattern---something I could never done by myself for a very long time though, hence sleep inducer---then securing it turns out to be much simpler. Consult your psychiatrist…

by sleep inducer, you mean sleeping pills? Which one in particular?

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Post by wiml »

gpm wrote: post #212
BobaFloutist wrote: post #190

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That sounds cool, but I'm a little resistant to being asked to remember to charge my lightswitch.

Could maybe be made low enough power that it can power itself via ambient light (like an old school calculator) or radio waves.

I've seen energy-harvesting remote light switches for sale — they supposedly get enough energy from the physical act of flipping the toggle to send a few radio packets. I haven't used one in the real world though.
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