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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 steve_adams_86 »

bloopernova wrote: post #276
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #262

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My wife has been suffering with perimenopause tremendously. Her hormonal fluctuations have caused hair loss, severe insomnia, and mood swings that seriously degrade the quality of her life. It's hard to watch. There's no magic trick to fix it, and she isn't doing anything 'wrong' that she should change.

If she hasn't started taking progesterone and estrogen, I recommend she talk to a doctor about doing that. Good luck, it's hard on both of you and I hope it gets better soon.

Thank you. It really is. It’s similar to pregnancy in that if both people are engaged in caring for mom and baby, it can be exhausting for everyone when things aren’t going smoothly.

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Post by bambax »

After skimming most comments here I still wonder what people want from a temperature-controlled mattress? Is it to have a warmer bed or a cooler one? Or does it depend on each person, some like it hot and some don't?

And for those who prefer a warm bed, isn't it simpler and cheaper to warm the room?

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Post by thowawatp302 »

avalys wrote: post #193
perching_aix wrote: post #187

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I saw it. It's not necessary if the process that maintains the reverse connection can just start it as needed. That said, some actual investigation of that supposed binary would have been a strong support for this whole thing, and indeed an evidence for this theory, so I will give you that.

If the bed requires going through some kind of production endpoint interaction in order to set up the remote connection (as is most likely the case), then his claim that any engineer can connect to any bed is simply false, and this is no more of a security hole than the idea of having a cloud-connected bed which is updated OTA in the first place.

Why is it false?

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Post by 10729287 »

croisillon wrote: post #267
adiabatty wrote: post #233

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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…

just tried it, that's cool, but in what circumstances "should" i use it?

I find it pretty useful at work when I want to focus and can't with music.

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Post by walthamstow »

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…

I tried it but I don't want my phone near the bed or even in the room. A simple, standalone machine is perfect. Same thing with my 2002 Sony Dream Machine alarm clock.

If you're trying to get better sleep, get your phone as far away as possible!

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Post by walthamstow »

rufus_foreman wrote: post #285
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 have two white noise machines, have them in stereo, one on each side of the bed. It's useful to be able to adjust them separately, I've got tinnitus in one ear more than the other so don't need it to be as loud on that side. As I get older, deafness will likely reduce my need to rely on technology.

This is such a great idea. I got a machine for my side of the bed, but my wife can barely hear it (which is more annoying than hearing it), and if I turn it up it's too loud for me.

Stereo - genius!

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Post by qwertox »

polishdude20 wrote: post #289
qwertox wrote: post #251

I have an esp32 next to my bed. I log the rssi strength and with that i know when i was in the bed and when i changed position. It also has a pir which detects movement, but tracking the rssi is good enough. A phone would be just as good, and I wouldn't be surprised if some sdk tracks the rssi of the phone to check if something changes around the phone. It's very telling.

Oh that's clever! Can you explain more how the rssi changes when you change positions? Is it fairly obvious in a graph?

It's like this https://imgur.com/a/SLrGHas

I was in bed from close to midnight to somewhat before 8:00.

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Post by rmason »

pedalpete wrote: post #234
rmason wrote: post #195

I looked really hard at buying an 8 Sleep. I have techie friends who swear by them. But one of the big reasons I didn't go forward I don't see mentioned here and that is noise. I need a dark and quiet room to sleep. Someone told me they returned their 8 sleep because of the constant fan noise of the computer running the thing. He told me it was like having a server in your bedroom. I am also not keen at all needing t…

I have a friend who felt the cover was really uncomfortable as well. He had a really expensive mattress, but said he could feel the cooling tubes in the cover. I'll do you one better on "collecting sleep data". I've been in the neurotech/sleeptech space for the last 5 years developing https://affectablesleep.com After getting an Oura ring years ago, and it telling me "you didn't get enough sleep[deep, REM]" I was lef…

I have a friend who was building an AI startup around the Oura ring. I was up for becoming a beta tester. But what he found out was that no matter what he did the AI returned the same answers whether it received the sleep data or not.

I think there is some value in collecting the data so when someone figures it out you can get the answers. But it is hard to know what data to collect because what the Oura ring provides could end up being of little value.

Good luck on your project, I will be following you.

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Post by amarcheschi »

tofof wrote: post #294
quickgist wrote: post #194

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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 anti…

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