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    3 days ago

    Well I did it, I bought myself a Chrissy present and a mud cake 😂

    My pressie to myself is a robo vacuum thingy since this house is about 90% carpet. Time will tell if it’s either an invaluable addition, or a cheap piece of shit that’ll shit itself and end up in landfill within 3 months (I went budget end, but slightly up from the cheapest)

    (It won’t arrive until the 27th though because holidays)

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      I loooove my robot vac. His name is Barnaby, as he makes binary decisions and always turns to the right. I don’t yet have googly eyes on him, but that is coming someday. He doesn’t deal well with getting stuck in corners, so has to be rescued when this happens. I don’t count this a fault or a problem.

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        Pew (pete two, original rommba pete was an aldi special) has extreme issues with our black rug. He thinks it’s a black hole come to claim his soul

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        Mum got into those TV shopping things and bought a vacuum that came with a first gen Roomba. Those things were idiotic as. It used to suck up the curtain, end up upside down and spinning it’s wheels back and forth while screaming for help

        This new one is considerably cheaper but does have lidar. It’s also had like 7 years to evolve, let’s see how it’s changed!

        E: actually I was wrong, it couldn’t have been a first gen. Apparently first gen goes all the way back to 2002 (I didn’t know that). In my head, roombas are a recentish thing from the mid 2010s. Don’t remember which one we had exactly, but it was damn near useless

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          2 days ago

          Reminds me of the yakuza

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        I’ll name it the same way I name pets - wait until I meet it and see what it’s like

        It’s by the same company that makes the cameras I have that yell at me about it seeing me - TP Tapo Link. I always call my cameras taco links though because idk what a Tapo even is. This might be named the TacoVacc

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      We bought a roomba back before they were popular you could get them in AU. Zero ragrets. Still trucking