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."

• Damage@feddit.it ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unplugging the internet is also an option…

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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