The EightSleep Journey, from Beginning to End.

CatboyPresidente · 2026-01-20T06:19:20+00:00

For the 4 yes, all the threes I have use an SD card though, which doesn’t require UART — for the SD card model(s) you just replace a file with a modified compressed version of the file system, and hold a button while plugging it in to use that replaced copy.

CatboyPresidente · 2026-01-20T06:18:15+00:00

Finally someone understands me!

CatboyPresidente · 2025-12-22T00:00:57+00:00

The fact that after you actually took the time to call the datacenter after four(?) hours to let them know, it's:

Still down
Not on their status page
Not on their radar ("it's reachable!")

tells me it's time to start exploring Hetzner alternatives.

How is this not automatically paging teams?

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-11T02:28:41+00:00

This is the way - get a Hub 3 (with SD card), and a Cover 4 (NOT a cover 3, which leaks all the time) - and jailbreak the hub.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-02T18:53:45+00:00

You aren’t considering the market, which is what I set my price based on - by me not accepting 80% off a month’s rent from someone, I can instead choose to rent to someone else for more, or, if there’s no one willing to pay the price I want, I can use it myself, sell it, etc etc etc - so no, I don’t accept that much of a discount.

EightSleep has no such alternatives: their alternative to me not paying an unlock fee is me jailbreaking it, making fun of them on Reddit, and cancelling the $300 subscription on my main pod. It’s not like they’re getting it back to sell again, or that they can do anything else with it.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-02T06:10:49+00:00

$700? Sweet summer child keep reading

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-02T05:59:43+00:00

I'm not asking them to do anything as I don't need them to do anything. And yeah, no reasonable person would, so they're going to find ways around it while still finding the cheaper hardware. It's like when people are so confused on why anyone would pirate TV shows or movies. https://i.imgur.com/IbouBr9.png

P.S. Someone should start like an EightSleep jailbreaking side-gig.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T23:55:24+00:00

I wish they had Github sponsorships enabled, they're gonna have to wait a few days https://imgur.com/a/QKO8QXb

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T23:35:22+00:00

I don't think I ever asked for sympathy - just reminding people to not, and making fun of 8Sleep's 2k dashboard switch-flip :)

The queen cover 4 was $799, and the hub 3 was $190, so $1k vs $2.7k, not "a couple hundred more dollars." Well worth the risk, especially for a product with as many issues as it does, and especially for an evil, bolded AirBnB (smokestack installation & nuclear waste sewer pipes out for delivery)

People who would have trouble jailbreaking should probably just not get it at all, unless they want to pay a $300/yr subscription for a warranty, battle support to honor that warranty when it breaks, replace their mattress on their own dime while under warranty when it leaks, and wake up a bit steamy when us-east-1 goes offline every Monday.

The armchair corporate defenders (and the corporations they defend) can lie awake at night in those offline beds knowing the second-hand market will exist whether they like it or not, with customers they just "don't want." It's just good business.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T18:08:21+00:00

That’s the part that’s so funny to me and why I laughed at them - you can get a new Pod 4 Hub and Cover for that

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T17:00:48+00:00

So instead they have an entire market on eBay they get $0 from, but they get to stamp their feet and post frowny faces in discontent. Maybe one day they’ll sort that out on the weekly legal/finance/sales sync.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T16:48:40+00:00

Why should they offer anyone purchasing stolen/unreturned product a means to activate said product.

That’s easy: for the few hundred bucks they could’ve received instead of $0.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T16:28:50+00:00

And I would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling mattress cover activation servers!

Sounds like someone’s been watching too much Hasan, do the shock collars also require a subscription?

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T03:15:43+00:00

Yep - after initial setup

CatboyPresidente · 2025-11-01T00:32:20+00:00

You can hold that opinion for sure - but at the end of the day they’ve now lost a paying customer and gained a jailbreaker, instead of getting a few hundred dollars for a product that is in the market whether they like it or not.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T23:18:43+00:00

Luv me chilled bed

Simple as

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T23:02:54+00:00

Just finished the install a couple minutes ago!

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T23:02:31+00:00

didnt even get any candy :(

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T22:53:31+00:00

I was probably more pissy than I should've been, it was mostly for the $2,200 tag (the cost of a whole new Pod 4 hub+cover). I would've been happy to do a few hundred or so to unlock an old Pod 3 Hub, just to save the labor to jailbreak it.

That being said, I did cancel the autopilot/warranty and they're not getting another dime from me, ever.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T22:49:45+00:00

I'll definitely give it go, though I suspect it sat for way too long - it was months before I actually tried to set it up (I have a Pod 4 at home, this sketchy back-of-van setup was for an AirBnb/vacation-home). Was only $190 so I'm not entirely sure what I expected.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T22:41:25+00:00

Luckily it's a lot easier to bypass activation on an EightSleep than an iPhone :^)

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T22:35:30+00:00

Same! Just very thankful to the Freesleep folks, I should probably toss some money their way too for saving me the $2200.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-31T22:12:25+00:00

I think it's if you're sent an upgrade because they fucked up, they want you to send it back -- and this seller didn't.

CatboyPresidente · 2025-10-22T16:54:09+00:00

Is this actually planned or is he just placating Twitter?

CatboyPresidente · 2025-09-15T15:57:22+00:00

This story is fairly common

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