• @[email protected]
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    53 months ago

    I want companies to make robots to vacuum for me. I don’t want them to make my own drudgery time more “convenient”.

    Nobody: “Now my boss can text me any time of day even when I’m doing housework!”

    • Maestro
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      13 months ago

      Get a Roborock. I love my S7 vac + mop. I have two long haired cats and a kid. It’s awesome!

  • @[email protected]OP
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    313 months ago

    Even better:

    Even better, if you’re doing the wash and left your phone in the other room, Samsung’s added touchscreens to its washers and dryers, including the new Bespoke AI Laundry Vented Combo washer / dryer ($3,099). This lets you answer a call directly on the built-in 7-inch LCD screen.

    You can take calls with your clothes dryer!

    • @[email protected]
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      143 months ago

      “Hello?”

      “Hey Dave…wait what’s that noise?”

      “Oh that’s my washer and dryer going.”

      “Can you move to the other room? I can’t hear you very well.”

      “No, the call is on my washer.”

      “WHAT?”

    • @[email protected]
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      243 months ago

      There is no world in which the barely marginal convenience outweighs the additional cost (and near certain privacy invasion of a microphone equipped dryer).

      • @[email protected]
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        103 months ago

        not to mention, why would you even want to start a conversation that could run on indefinitely and keep you hostage in your laundry room. nothing about this makes sense if you think about it for 5 seconds.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      I have taken calls while loading my dryer, and it’s fucking stupid to not wait. I took advantage of advanced technology called a “pocket” to carry my “mobile” device

  • TimeSquirrel
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    143 months ago

    Who asked for this? Did y’all ask for this? I don’t remember asking for this.

    Looks around room in confusion

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      This was literally my reaction when reading this. Who the fuck needs to be so connected they need to know immediately when vacuuming. Heaven forbid it waits 5 minutes until you’re done.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s about reducing variable costs.

      You build phones, watches, tvs, washers, dryers, fridges? Why use separate hardware and software? That’s just expensive. Just build a common platform that can be easily modified for everything and take advantage of production scale to reduce costs everywhere.

      Slap in all those smart phone features too because why the fuck not. It’s cheap, someone might be convinced to buy it because of it, and few people will avoid it because you can use your phone. Bonus points! We can collect use information.

      Everyone wins! Except the customer. Because fuck them.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      Some crappy product manager found some agreeable “tech enthusiasts” and/or worded their research questions in such a way that made it seem like this would be a net positive to the sales/profit of the product.

      The engineers who had to design this terrible product were probably making jokes about it all the time.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    That’s nothing! My reusable digital toilette paper let’s me zoom and teams into important work meetings. It even includes a 3D digital camera and digital texturizer so you can feel the other side.

  • Beej Jorgensen
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    23 months ago

    FML. This reminds me I just got trn to built for reading Usenet. I’m reverting.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 months ago

    Pass. Let me know when it has AI and can plagiarize an essay for me, that’s what I actually use my vacuum cleaner for.

    • sunzu2
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      33 months ago

      It is there for data mining… Not for the idiot using it for sms

  • @[email protected]
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    253 months ago

    Do you know how I can tell when I have an incoming call or message? My phone, which is in my pocket, makes a noise and vibrates. Why the absolute hell would I want my vacuum cleaner to notify me of a call?

    And the washer too? Do they seriously think people just sit around at home taking calls every 5 minutes that they need every appliance to be able to make/take phonecalls?