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Forget navigating and putting things away, I find it quite amazing that in 2023 we are still cleaning our own toilets and immediate surrounds.

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But on the bright side, we have cheap smartphones now and can spend time on endless consumption of entertainment. All our bright minds are slaving away at 9-5 jobs thinking hard on how to make people click ads.

They make and sell self-cleaning toilets at most big-box stores. They're just about 5x the price of a non-self-cleaning toilet, and I'm pretty certain they break down much, much more often, given that they have multiple valves and electronics in them.

Interesting. Never seen one for sale and never seen one installed in any household. Still amazed that in 2023 they're not a common thing. I understand the challenges, but it's not a problem that's going away, that anyone enjoys dealing with, etc.

link?

The only "self-cleaning" toilets I see are over-engineered garbage that only help with cycling through toilet tank tablets.

https://www.lowes.com/pl/Self-cleaning--Toilets-Toilets-toil...

The product pages are blocked for me, presumably because I'm outside the USA, so I can't see how they work.

Are these self-cleaning with scrubbers or with some sort of flushing product? If the latter, does it reliably remove all marks? Self-cleaning to me is something more than just periodically flushing suds or using a spray.

The seat still requires cleaning, etc.

I have no idea about those toilets, but I highly recommend getting a pressure-assist added to your toilet: https://www.flushmate.com/. I had one in a commercial retail unit I used to rent, and it rarely ever needed deep cleaning.

Smart idea, being able to retrofit existing cisterns. I don't think it'd prevent having to wipe the seat down both sides plus whatever else. Blows my mind that we don't have radially symmetric bowls and S-bend equivalents that can clean automatically, plus the outside. I have no idea how my kids get piss around the outside of the bowl, but somehow they do.

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