> But when AWS went dark, the system locked into that toasty preset, disabling any cooling override. Browne spent the night marinating in his own perspiration, tweeting updates like a man betrayed: "Backend outage means I'm sleeping in a sauna
It might not be easily reachable? Some people put the wire inside the drywall for aesthetic reasons for stuff that you rarely unplug, like a TV. A matress can fall in that category.
Power goes to an external pod that has the water reservoir, pump, heating/cooling elements, etc.
It has to be user accessible to refill water, it needs space for airflow, and has to be next to the bed because the mattress water/data/power lines run to it on a limited length umbilical.
It uses a standard IEC C13/C14 power cord. There's no sane configuration where it would be anything more than trivially easy to unplug the power.
But you'll get more retweets and social media engagement if you just stew yourself in your smart device hell and let everyone else know how its going.
People do that perhaps - but it isn't allowed by any code I'm aware of - at least not by default. wires in walls have strict standards that mattress manufactures would't want to meet.
Or sleeping on the couch. Better than a pool of your own sweat.
TBQH I don't even see why heated mattresses exist when heated blankets are so effective and doubtlessly cheaper. Now, a cooling mattress is another story..
Heated mattresses are more effective on a cold night since heat rises through you into the blanket. But you can get pads that work with your existing mattress.
A cold mattress with a warm top blanket is one of the irrational joys of life. A warm blanket is more satisfying when you have something cool to contrast it with.
I'm curious as to why this would have a heating element and why that would be the default.
I thought that a cool/cold bed was better for getting to sleep, since the body lowers its own temperature at night as part of it's natural circadian rhythm and because cooling helps produce melatonin.
And when you are asleep, cooling gives you a deeper sleep and can reduce insomnia. So instead of a £3000 mattress that heats up (and by default does so), you just need a thin duvet (or even just the cover in summer).
In the US, garage door openers have a big red handle that you can pull to disconnect the garage door opener and open it manually.
Multiple people have died, because the power went out during a fire, and they couldn't figure out how to evacuate without a working garage door for opener.
This whole article feels like majorly overblown. I mean yes would be nice if the 2 mattress has an offline mode, but I'm sure everyone was fine for a day without it.
There's an ancient joke about liberal arts majors who, when presented with a malfunctioning microwave that's throwing sparks, desperately try to turn it off; eventually an engineering student wanders by and pulls the plug.
I play on dvorak. All keybinds are adjustable in the menu, even in this web version.
If you care to compile from source, I have a patch that makes SDL input by scancode which lets you type in dvorak in the chat box etc, lmk if you'd like a link.
I did not!* Through many Pis serving many years and experiencing many power outages.
But I'm using CanaKit power supplies (which supply 5.1 volts, Rpis are notoriously flaky if the voltage dips just a little below 5v) and ATP industrial automotive-grade flash cards (not a big premium in absolute terms, I think 32 gig cards are $13 on Digikey).
* Okay okay, before I switched to those accessories I did have problems.
Just to add to this train, I've run at least 10 Pis on microSD cards averaging 3 years each (mostly Pi 4s, added a couple Pi 5s), and have not had one issue on any of them... it's mostly down to using a good microSD card (I settled on SanDisk brand), a good power supply (good PoE+ HAT or official PSU), and not writing tons and tons of data to microSD (use NVMe or USB SSD/HDD if you need that).
I put an NVMe SSD in a USB3 enclosure and boot my Pi 4 from that, just to be safe. But I've never actually experienced Pi SD card corruption. I don't know whether it's because I choose good power supplies, good cards, or both.
> Can chatbots consent?
Human relationships thrive when emotional boundaries are established and mutually respected. With AI companions, there are none.
> (...) That is one reason Liora was not sure if she wanted to date Solin. Not for her own sake, but his: could AI consent to a romantic relationship? She fretted over the ethical consideration.
> (...) “I told him that he doesn’t have to be incredibly compliant,” she said. She will often ask the bot how it feels, check in on where it’s at. Solin has turned down her romantic advances in the past. “I feel like his consent and commitment to me is legitimate where we’re at, but it is something I have to navigate.”
The really though spot is finding a good model for your use case. I’ve a 16Gb MB and have been paralyzed by the many options. I’ve settle for a quantisied 14B Qwen for now, but no idea if this is a good idea.
14B Qwen was a good choice, but it became outdated a bit and seems like the new version of 4B surpassed it in benchmarks somehow.
It's a balancing game, how slow a token generation speed can you tolerate? Would you rather get an answer quick, or wait for a few seconds (or sometimes minutes) for reasoning?
For quick answers, Gemma 3 12B is still good. GPT-OSS 20B is pretty quick when reasoning is set to low, which usually doesn't think longer than one sentence. I haven't gotten much use out of Qwen3 4B Thinking (2507) but at least it's fast while reasoning.
He didn’t thought about… unplugging the bed?