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I’ve recently got a roborock vacuum, and it’s actually been life changing. I have a number of pets, and not having to vacuum 3x a week or so has been incredible. I had a roomba when I was a kid and it sucked (or not I suppose). The roborock has lidar and it’s super meticulous.

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Did you already upgrade it so it screams when it hits a wall to make it more 'human'?

https://youtu.be/mvz3LRK263E (fun starts around 3:30, might be nsfw)

> I had a roomba when I was a kid

OK now I feel old.

Surprisingly “introduced in September 2002”, so to be fair they could be as old as their early 30s.

It’s not as bad as the “favourite childhood game on an iPhone” the other day

La la la you're not helping! fingers in ears :P

True about the childhood iPhone games, though.

What model have you got? I've been looking and it a seems robot vacs have finally started to be good.

So looking to make a purchase between now and Christmas-ish.

Not GP; I have a Roborock S5.

But it hasn't run yet. I have yet to get around to rooting it to avoid privacy issues.

https://www.iot-tests.org/2019/02/from-the-land-of-smiles-xi...

On the upside, apparently once it is rooted and dustcloud installed it is apparently even more responsive as it pretty much stores the database on itself.

https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud

As usual, disclaimers apply, YMMV etc etc.

Both S5 and S6 are great (actually there's not much difference) as long as you don't try to mop the floor with it (I haven't).

Setting up red zones with the app is the most important part of making them useful.

I have the s6 pure which I got for a little less than 500 USD iirc. It’s fantastic.

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