Life in Use
The reading room
Neato after the cloud shutdown: what can you recover?
Manual cleaning, a conditional exchange and community bridges offer different outcomes. Your model matters—and a planned server is a separate proposition.
Eight Sleep and Dock Pro: repairs, noise and upkeep
Repairs, replacements, noise and subscriptions: we reconstructed 16 reported ownership episodes and checked the current vendor documents.
What your smart home can still do without the internet
Six documented setups, the features that remain, and the questions an outage cannot answer.
What owner reports can tell you
A recurring story is a reason to investigate. To turn it into a rate, you need a denominator.
Offline is not one feature
Turning something on, changing a setting and setting it up again can rely on different parts of a system.