I’m absolutely not against robits in the home, I think the possibilities are really cool but like… Alright actually, here’s a side by side comparison:
Alexa can play Skyrim tho
Damn you’re right.
I’m on mobile can somebody add that as a point for Roomba.
here you go
Roomba creates maps of the inside of your house
You’re like the 400th person to add this so:
This is the outline of my bedroom, with approximate furniture. Information I might not want handed out to the government or corporations or whatever. Not even including dubious terrain like rugs and clutter:
Here’s what a roomba, at floor level, with clutter and obstructions and stuff-under-stuff might be able to ‘map’ as navigable area:
This is completely useless to anybody except people developing robot vaccuums who might want diagnostic data. This isn’t even close to the level of Alexa’s microphone bollocks. Hit Alexa with a hammer, Roomba is… Safe, for now.
I saw the red and blue and my first response was “Roomba is using this sensitive information for GERRYMANDERING purposes”
SWAT team, bursting into your room, having been briefed with detailed Roomba-collected maps: *avoids difficult rug*
Fun fact!! It’s cuz your body feels your pulse falling rapidly and is like “I don’t know if you’re dying or falling asleep and I’m not willing to gamble” so it shoots you up with adrenaline fuel to make you not die™. It’s one of my favourite facts
how bout it gets with the fucking program we’ve only been at it nearly every single night for my entire goddam life
All that advice at the start of the pandemic telling people to focus on things that they haven’t had time for, assuming everyone would take up needlepoint, yoga, or dust more. Seems the thing everyone wished they had more time for was dismantling the white supremacist police state.
