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The true power of lid closure is that it makes you feel gross and REALLY want to wash your hands, and by washing your hands, you get rid of 99% of the risks.

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Not if you close the lid using your foot :)

Or your, oh, nevermind.

lol, exactly to the point though, knowing others using their foot makes you want to wash hands even more ;)

I know other people use their feet, which is partly why I use my foot

Ah, game theory at its finest.

tragedy of the public toilets

Unless the lid is powered as part of a washlet... (which I can whole-heartedly recommend as one of the best ways I've spent $1K on my house).

Sounds like an overcomplicated solution that requires lots of maintenance.

Mine has proven equally reliable to a mechanical toilet, while providing considerably more comfort. This actually makes sense when you consider all the mechanical complexity in a typical toilet is getting replaced with a series of solenoids. Flush is now just energizing an electromagnet, rather than the gravity-powered dance of floats and valves you're used to.

There's also fun to be had trolling toddlers. Sometimes when my 2yo closes the toilet I'll sneakily open it with the remote and she'll yell at it "NO!" and slam it shut again.

If there's one feature I don't want my toilet to have, its an app.

They said remote, not app. My toilet has a remote with all it's features that's mounted on the wall next to the toilet. The on toilet controls are limited to the essentials.

As to why they have the remote outside of the bathroom apparently.... I took have questions.

I heard about somebody at Google (where they have lots of Washlets) who swapped the remotes for two neighboring Washlets either on purpose or by accident. Much hilarity ensued.

In three years, it's been one pair of AA batteries so far and the cap on 'lots of maintenance' would be a 15-minute task to remove and replace with a new one.

It's not. Once you get a toto you never go back.

A simple alternative is the hand washer attachment, ~$50.

Simple washlet is like $300. I couldn’t justify extra for self closing/open features.

Posting from one right now lol.

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