Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can find out - set up a local DNS (pihole, blocky et. al.) and check which domains the vacuum connects to.

  Then block those and see what happens! Interesting experiment for a weekend.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unplugging the internet is also an option…

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Depends how often it phones home?

      Some devices are just dandy to not have Internet for an hour, or a day. But once it must phone home for definitely legitimate reasons - you’ll find it no longer works.

      My daughter’s toy was like this. The company went bankrupt. Servers went down. The device worked for 30 days then it never worked again.

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Connect it to a spare access point, create a custom filtering rule on the router…

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If it’s a CRL-200S based robot, the manufacturer will straight up brick it within a few days.

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bro, I just bought a Roborock a few weeks ago and I love it. I was panic reading these comments until I saw yours and realized it’s a Roborock, not iRobot. Hope our housebots don’t meet the same fate.

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