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- 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." 22 hours ago:
Not supporting iRobot vacuums isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering that at the price iRobot is asking for their vacuums, a lot of the other companies in the space offer much nicer models with more features.
- 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." 22 hours ago:
I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way
- 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." 1 day ago:
How is the dog shitting in the house the Roomba’s fault?
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 2 days ago:
The last several final fantasy games have been done with realistic graphics though lol
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 4 days ago:
Mate, religious people didn’t fill the museums with dinosaurs without feathers.
Right, religious people fill their museums with justifications for dinosaurs being on the ark with all the other animals, and pseudoscientific “proof” of a 6000 year old earth that directly contradicts any real scientific evidence.
Also the irony of you saying that “religious people don’t fill museums with featherless dinos” and then immediately following it up with
Scientists gather evidence… then fill the gaps.
is insane lol. Like are you even approaching this conversation seriously at this point? I feel like you’re still missing my point, even though I’ve explained it multiple times now. What else can I do to explain it to you in a way you’ll understand?
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 5 days ago:
I still feel like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of science, and that you’re trying to conflate the gap-filling that religious people do with the evidence gathering that science does. Which is a wholly disingenuous thing to do.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 6 days ago:
Where we don’t have proof, we have theories
Based on this sentence, I don’t think you understand how science works, which might be why we’re still talking past each other.
Also it seems like you’re still hung up on what humanity has done historically, but that’s not relevant at all to what I’m talking about. I’m speaking in a pragmatic sense, about what we should do, not what we have done.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 6 days ago:
we still have museums filled with dinosaurs without feathers
Because we’re still making discoveries and trying to nail the details of dino feathers. Feathers rarely fossilize, so it’s a really difficult thing to study.
there are people that preach the big bang theory as fact
Scientists present the big bang theory as fact because of the vast body of evidence that supports it. Just like germ theory, or evolution.
Shit, we still have people thinking the earth is flat.
Contrary to what the evidence shows, so idk what this has to do with anything.
We’re getting off track though. You originally made a claim basically saying that we don’t know enough to say God didn’t create the universe. I’m just trying to point out that that’s not how critical/scientific thinking works. You don’t invent an untestable conclusion and then say “well nothing disproves this yet, so it’s possible”. Not being able to disprove something says nothing about it’s possibility, and not having evidence of something is neither proof, nor disproof, but simply a gap in knowledge. We should be comfortable leaving those gaps empty until we find solid, evidence-based explanations that fill them. We shouldn’t prematurely fill them with untestable claims.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 6 days ago:
Are we even capable of putting the pieces together that we’re getting?
Yes, absolutely, and more progress is made as more new evidence is found. The thing is, until that happens, scientists are perfectly comfortable with the gaps, and saying “I don’t know”, instead of filling those gaps with an evil sky wizard.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 6 days ago:
Do you think the astronomers/cosmologists/astrophysicists piecing together the origins of the universe are doing so without evidence?
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 week ago:
we’re sure as shit nowhere near understanding anything enough to say a god DIDN’T do it.
But we also have zero solid evidence that a God did do it. Making and believing such an enormous claim without evidence is absolutely bananas
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 week ago:
The only way you can come to the conclusion that “acceptance is the goal” of the Bible is by cherry picking from it.
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 week ago:
The new testament is full of heinous shit too though. Jesus (who, don’t forget, is still the same vengeful, angry old testament God) condones rape, violence, and killing all throughout it, but says “love thy neighbor” once and everyone thinks he’s gentle as a lamb.
“I come not to bring peace, but a sword” - Matthew 10:34
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 1 week ago:
The kind of “AI advancement” that requires stripping away privacy rights is definitely done by technofascists.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 1 week ago:
But we do have evidence that a lot of chemicals in the PFAS family stick around for a long time, and we have evidence that they’re harmful. That’s enough for me to be wary of anything in that group, especially when there are easy alternatives.
- Comment on FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site 1 week ago:
It’s hard to rewrite the past if someone’s keeping receipts
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 1 week ago:
I try to plug it in without closely inspecting the port because I can with just about every other type of port. It’s easy to plug in an HDMI, Display Port, or Ethernet cable on the first try because of the asymmetrical shape, and things that use barrel plugs like headphone jacks just don’t care about orientation. USB-A is one of the few port types that combines the worst of both worlds.
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 1 week ago:
You can also get a roll of like 50 reusable microfiber cloths from any home store for less than ten bucks. They work just as well as any overpriced branded duster wipes, and are washable/reusable as an added bonus.
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 1 week ago:
You mean, the couple of seconds it takes trying to plug in a USB-A the wrong way, having to flip it over, discovering you had it the right way the first time because USB-A ports are bastards, and having to flip it over again?
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of anti-cheats work on Linux, and the ones that don’t are probably borderline malware anyways, so it’s really a win-win
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 weeks ago:
Is it? I was just in London a couple months ago, the amount of people smoking and vaping there was honestly shocking.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
Yeah if your vacuum does enough for you with its Internet access restricted, then there’s no good reason to install valetudo. I chose to install it on mine because 1. paranoia, 2. I don’t have a good firewall solution set up yet, and 3. a lot of features on my vacuum are disabled if it can’t phone home, but valetudo re-enables those features.
- Comment on card game shop 2 weeks ago:
What’s a sensible solution to the problem of unhygienic customers then
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
I literally just installed this last weekend, so the docs are still pretty fresh in my mind. I still recommend you go read through that site to get the full picture and make your own informed decision, but here’s my tl:dr.
Valetudo, first and foremost, is intended to enable select models of vacuum robots to operate cloud-free. It’s not intended (nor is it feasible) to offer feature-parity with the manufacturers’ firmware/apps/cloud services. But in my limited experience, the only feature my robot is missing after installing valetudo is the ability to live-stream video from the onboard camera, which isn’t a big deal at all for me (and is something that the dev specifically won’t support). Everything else works flawlessly so far. It also allows you to configure just about anything the robot supports configurability for, like pathing algorithm adjustments, obstacle avoidance sensitivity adjustments, and a whole host of other things. I’m not sure if the manufacturer’s app even allows that level of configurability (because I never installed it), but I definitely feel like I have full control over my robot, and it functions flawlessly at performing its job of keeping my floors clean.
I think the biggest thing to be aware of is the rooting/installation process may require some soldering (not of the robot, just some through-hole soldering on a separate breakout board to make connecting to the robot’s debug port more foolproof), and requires comfortability in a Linux terminal. If those things aren’t in your wheelhouse, I’d say this project probably isn’t for you.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 weeks ago:
Why yes indeed, he put that thing down, flipped it, and reversed it.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 3 weeks ago:
If you have a robot vacuum, and the robot vacuum makes a persistent map (as opposed to the older “dumber” models that just bounce around randomly), they all send that map back to some remote server. In fact, most of those robots won’t even enable the mapping feature unless they’re connected to the Internet (which is absolute bullshit considering most of those robots generate, process, and store that map locally, so there’s literally no reason to send it off somewhere).
So your options are to just use the robot without ever connecting it to the Internet and be happy with the reduced featureset, root the robot and install Valetudo on it, or just vacuum manually. But until manufacturers are forced to let us actually own the smart devices they sell is, under no circumstances should you ever let one touch the Internet.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 3 weeks ago:
Textured vegetable protein, a vegetable-based/vegan replacement for ground meat
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 weeks ago:
Sure, I’m not under the impression that the solution is simple or quick. Still worth working towards improvements anyways though, don’t you think?
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 3 weeks ago:
Lmao Jesus Christ. You know I mean “people who know better than to both-sides someone being assaulted”, sorry for trying to be succinct. Won’t make that mistake again, Private Pedantic 🫡
