Questions you want answered.

This is just one man's opinion so feel free to disregard it, but I find robot vacuums vastly overrated. They're a wonderful little marvel of technology that fail completely at their intended purpose of reducing the amount of human labor involved in housekeeping. They have tiny little dirt compartments that need to be emptied so often, and their little brushes require so much attention to keep them from getting clogged with pet hair, and they require so much fiddling to make sure they pay enough attention to the areas that really need it, that at the end of the day they're not actually any less work than just getting a regular old stand-up vacuum and doing it manually every so often.

Or a Dyson stick, which you just carry around easily and does the job quickly.

The way you're framing it is a false choice. The goal is to operate your manual vacuum less often and have the robot run daily or whenever you go out, so unless there's something I seriously don't understand about your home, there's more than enough capacity for a day or two's worth of pickup. As for pet hair, there are higher-end models made with rubber brushes meant for those scenarios (also useful during pandemics where your own hair might get a bit longer than normal). Robots aren't meant to replace regular manual vacuuming entirely. They can't, but that's not the point of them. I'm someone who's never been one to run the upright vacuum every day. Having the robot running daily is an improvement over prior conditions.

For us, the need to move chairs and stuff (and my wife's paranoia that the dog would randomly crap in the house and the roomba would "clean" it) has kept us from those.
What I really want is one of the robo mowers. I keep coming close to buying one of those.

lunchbox12682 wrote:

For us, the need to move chairs and stuff (and my wife's paranoia that the dog would randomly crap in the house and the roomba would "clean" it) has kept us from those.
What I really want is one of the robo mowers. I keep coming close to buying one of those.

So on the one hand, your wife doesn't trust the robot to be able to deal with wet poo, but then YOU want to give it giant whirling blades?

Jonman wrote:
lunchbox12682 wrote:

For us, the need to move chairs and stuff (and my wife's paranoia that the dog would randomly crap in the house and the roomba would "clean" it) has kept us from those.
What I really want is one of the robo mowers. I keep coming close to buying one of those.

So on the one hand, your wife doesn't trust the robot to be able to deal with wet poo, but then YOU want to give it giant whirling blades?

Inside vs outside, but yes. Yes, I do.

I have both an uplift desk and a roomba.

1. The desk is awesome and I'm glad I made the purchase. I have the V2 C-Frame, the 60" long top with a curve and the advanced digital keypad. I highly recommend getting some sort of power grommet add-on because having power access on top is super convenient. I've happily used this for well over a year and a half at this point and am shifting from sitting to standing and vice versa constantly.

2. Our main floor is an open floor plan with dark hardwood and we have no pets currently. However I have two children who are just apparently crumb generating monsters. The roomba has been awesome. Ours doesn't have a memory for rooms so we had to get the electronic barriers to keep it out of certain areas. We let it run in the dining room and kitchen 3 times / week and it does a great job of keeping crumbs in check. Every week or two we remove the barriers and let it do the whole floor prior to mopping. It's definitely not the perfect vacuum, sometimes it misses stuff and the bin does need emptied every week or so. However it makes my life a lot easier and keeps me from having to manually vacuum every few days.

One suggestion if you get a standing desk is to get a good mat for the floor. I was surprised how much it helped.

Robot vacuums are very helpful if you have pets EVEN if you have to take 30 seconds every couple of days to empty them.

Every couple of DAYS? You've had a better experience with yours than I've ever had or observed anyone else having. In my experience, you're lucky to get through one cycle without it needing to be emptied or eating a shoelace or just deciding to get stuck under or on top of something.

Every couple of days is my experience when running it daily. After a couple of years using it our home is kept vacuum friendly by everybody. Stuck places get rearranged or a guard in place. For the shoelaces and other such manglings we'd have to keep it that way regardless of the vacuum we're using.

My wife got a Eufy robo-vacuum when we bought our current house because the main level is pretty open concept with hardwood floors. It certainly doesn't replace sweeping or vacuuming, but it makes it a bit more tolerable between days we clean. It mostly picks up dust, with the occasional dog food that got spread around.

We have two dogs, and yeah, Eufy has eaten poop a few times now. It's always pretty rough. It doesn't take too long to clean it up, but it's still not a particularly pleasant situation. It'd probably be worse if our dogs weighed more than a combined total of 10 lbs.

It's pretty dumb, and if there's a cord too low to the floor it will find it. But overall we've been pretty happy with it.

PurEvil wrote:

My wife got a Eufy robo-vacuum when we bought our current house because the main level is pretty open concept with hardwood floors. It certainly doesn't replace sweeping or vacuuming, but it makes it a bit more tolerable between days we clean. It mostly picks up dust, with the occasional dog food that got spread around.

We have two dogs, and yeah, Eufy has eaten poop a few times now. It's always pretty rough. It doesn't take too long to clean it up, but it's still not a particularly pleasant situation. It'd probably be worse if our dogs weighed more than a combined total of 10 lbs.

It's pretty dumb, and if there's a cord too low to the floor it will find it. But overall we've been pretty happy with it.

We have one of those and we hate it. We named it Wilbur so we have a name to use when we need to curse at it. "Dammit Wilbur!!!"

Our youngest (9, autistic) calls it Goofy. I will admit that while it does a good enough job, we tend to yell at it quite a bit and I get in trouble for sticking stuffed animals on top of it while it's running.

PurEvil wrote:

Our youngest (9, autistic) calls it Goofy. I will admit that while it does a good enough job, we tend to yell at it quite a bit and I get in trouble for sticking stuffed animals on top of it while it's running.

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When will Mario be in trouble and Peach and Peachuigi have to save him from WaPeach and WaPeachuigi?
Asking for somebody who is apparently confused.

MaxShrek wrote:

When will Mario be in trouble and Peach and Peachuigi have to save him from WaPeach and WaPeachuigi?
Asking for somebody who is apparently confused.

2006? I mean Mario and Luigi were captured and Peach did have to save them... no WaPeaches through.

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Now I want Wapeach and Wadaisy.

Oh sweet I didn't know that happened, I'll have to find a DS, or an emulator.
WaPeach and WaLuipeach might sound better.

MaxShrek wrote:

Oh sweet I didn't know that happened, I'll have to find a DS, or an emulator.
WaPeach and WaLuipeach might sound better.

I played that back in the day, and have just rebought a copy as a result of this thread, for my Peach-obsessed 7 year old who just got her own DS.

Always like how Super Mario Bros 2 (US) had the selectable characters and everyone except Mario had good use cases

Can anyone identify this plant? I took this photo in Paradise, CA.

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My brief internet search makes me think it's a California Corn Lily maybe?

I'm going with Common Mullein...

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Oh yeah that's much closer.

I believe Robert found it! Thank you. I knew a Goodjer would know.

Robear, not Robert lol. Old, old nickname from SCA.

Robear wrote:

Robear, not Robert lol. Old, old nickname from SCA.

That was some goddamn autocorrect shenanigans. Apologies for not catching it.

Will I be able to go into a store and just buy a game console in 2022 or should I just assume I am skipping this unless I want to work for until at least 2023?

Stealthpizza wrote:

Will I be able to go into a store and just buy a game console in 2022 or should I just assume I am skipping this unless I want to work for until at least 2023?

My friend’s son works at Target. I’d asked him about the new consoles and if they ever get any. He said you have to reserve it online and then drive to the store to pick it up. This is meant to dissuade scalpers. Sadly scalpers will just find work arounds, so all it’s doing is making things more inconvenient for scalpers.

My friend told me they get 1 or 2 per week of new Xboxen and PlayStation.