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."

manxu@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair, many roombas have a mini DIN connector somewhere, which opens up the possibility for external control - what I plan to do when mine stops working due to server shutdown. However, getting replacement parts will get more and more tricky as time goes by.

  I just had to through out a mostly functional airfryer because the drawer rail disintegrated and the replacement part is no longer manufactured. The oldest one I could get was a “new” version with more plastic and a slightly bigger size, so it didn’t fit by about 5%.

  It really should be illegal, there is no logical reason for 500 slightly different models and inoperability of basic functions (drawers, APIs, …) aside from malignant greed and planet destruction.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gods, I fucking hate this so much. I’ve got a ninja blender that the lid seal is broken, and the lid alone is like 50-70% of the cost of a whole new unit. It’s ridiculous how impossible it is to find replacement parts for simple things anymore.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      This is why I have a 3D printer. I make all kinds of seals, gaskets, o-rings, usually better than original.

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      • johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Do you use a special filament for that?

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        How do you 3d print a rubber gasket?

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• lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That would make the husk of the company truly worthless, and I’m not sure private equity will allow that.

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