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Seems to redirect back to HN now when you visit it from HN? Still glad it was mentioned here. Have been pondering buying a vacuum robot for a while and the missing privacy was off putting, so I haven't bought one yet, and I only today learnt of the project.

Can somebody who runs this on one of the recommended Dreame mopping robots say from experience whether you actually lose some kind of essential features the built-in firmwares have? The "why not" page says feature parity is a non-goal but only specifically mentions multifloor where I can understand the reasoning.

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Any backstory to this or is the developer just not a fan?

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The comments here seem to prove him right. Half of them are airing their personal grievances or talking generically about what it means to have a community.

HN frontpage posts also have a way to get the attention of some pretty shitty people, directly or indirectly. HN itself takes active steps so site operators cannot detect when someone is coming from HN or not (like adding noreferrer to links to some domains) so the admins here are aware of the problem and decide to go against linked authors' wishes.

>shitflinging with nice words

Criticism?

Now that I had more time to order my thoughts, I have updated the comment there with a more in-depth explanation.

If you're still curious, feel free to have a look.

You won’t miss much. The only thing I am missing is the mop after vacuum functionality, which was kinda borked and eventually removed in Valetudo for my specific model (Dreame L10s pro ultra heat)

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