A Verge story on hacking your robot vacuum so it doesn’t phone home.

    • m_r_butts@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Then allow me to clarify:

      jesus CHRIST just buy an upright you ASSHOLES

      my upright vacuum has a motor that could vacuum up a whole roomba. it doesn’t need to charge. it has a hepa filter so good it outperforms my actual, dedicated air purifier. it doesn’t send my floor plan and activity schedule to amazon. it doesn’t take and send dick pics of me to the CIA. it can’t talk to other devices in my house and form some weird spy mesh network. it needs to be run rarely enough that i have never felt burdened by it.

      in conclusion fuck your stupid, stupid IOT dustbuster on wheels

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        11 months ago

        There might have been some miscommunication between us. I fully support the fight for privacy and buy nothing that’s not truly under my control. I do not have a vacuum robot, I run Linux on all my computers, GrapheneOS on my phone, the only ‘smart’ thing about my car is its ability to detect when it’s dark so it can turn on my headlights, that sort of thing. But I don’t know you and your original comment didn’t make it clear to me whether you engaged in defeatist speech or were advocating for privacy.

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          11 months ago

          I’m using “your” as a non-specific adjective. I could have written “fuck one’s roomba” I suppose but that doesn’t sound right at all.

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        11 months ago

        You sound jealous.

        It’s surprising how much dust my robot picks up every day. It’s very nice