Mickey7Oct 24

There was no need to ever improve upon THIS

https://lemmy.world/post/37789696

Show threadpassepartout
The next thing will be: I can’t toggle my AC because AWS is down.
Oct 24 at 11:05amWeb
Show threadexpatriadoOct 24
your seats overheat and get stuck in the most forward position
Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkOct 27
Unless you pay the subscription fee.
Show threadHubiOct 24
You’re lucky if it lets you start the car.
Show threadstupidcaseyOct 24
Are you? I think I would rather a car that doesn’t start than a car that doesn’t have breaks
Show threadgrteOct 24
Or perhaps, I can’t toggle my AC because I forgot to pay my subscription fee.
Show threadbigFabOct 24
Luckily for me, I don’t even know what ‘AWS’ means.
Show threadAxolotlOct 24

Amazon Web Services, are huge data centers that many companies rent to run their services.

The other day one of those AWS data center had issues and many services didn’t work, also because of this many heated beds stopped working properly and over-heated.

Show threadsasquatch7704Oct 24

Plus the Ring doorbell, plus probably lots of people got locked out because of smart locks.

It’s sad to see how easily people are fooled to depend on huge greedy corporations.

To me it seems insanse that a server crashes somewhere and the door lock or door bell doesn’t work.

Show threadAxolotlOct 25
A smart house should do everthing locally
Show threadsasquatch7704Oct 24
You are joking, but I’m pretty sure a few cars could not start or got bricked because AWS went down.
Show threadCapricorn_GeriatricOct 24
Instructions unclear: AWS is doing fine, but my AC won’t shut off until I renew my BMW+ subscription.
Show threadGerudoOct 24
You joke, but I literally came across this. I HATE that I had to connect my window unit to the net, but we have a lot of brownouts in the area, and it allows me to restart the AC if I’m away, or else my pups would cook during the summer if it didn’t turn on. The AWS outage hit, and I couldn’t log in to the app that controls it to turn it on. Luckily, it’s not peak summer and it didn’t get too warm by the time I got home.
Show threadrudyharrelsonOct 24
If the brownouts don’t last long, you could maybe solve this issue with a moderately priced UPS to keep the AC unit from powering off during the brief moments when power goes out.
Show threadGerudoOct 24
I’d have to spend more on the ups than the ac unit. Sometimes it’s brown outs, sometimes full blackouts. As much as I hate connecting it to the web, it’s free vs at least a couple hundred for a high enough wattage ups to run more than a minute.
Show threaddual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Oct 25

There exist air conditioners with power outage recovery, and they’ve been around for decades. It’s usually labelled “automatic restart” on the spec sheet. This was already a solved problem before the Internet Of Shitty Things, and it seems that in your case some rat bastard went around and deliberately unsolved it.

Whoever that person is, we need to find him and give him a smart kick up the rear.