Yeah, I do agree. That's not really my stance, but just following the logic, it doesn't make a lot of sense
The PT argument is a whole other kettle of fish, and there'll always be a need for private cars in the society we live in, but the argument could definitely be made that if we didn't encourage adoption of EVs, or continued use of ICE vehicles, and actively disincentivised driving, more people might cycle, walk, and catch PT around
Honestly I just deal with it. I need an extension cord to get to my desk cause they only put power points on one side of the room, but I hate shit on the floor so I ran them on command hook things across the window and then down to a power board on my desk. Ethernet will do the same, though has to come under the door
The cat bowls are a good thought, and something I hadn't thought of! I'm thinking I might make a little cubby for them to make banishing Jason a bit easier
Yeah that's a good point. My house is all a single level so a non issue for me. For two or maybe 3 levels you can get away with carrying it up (it allows you to have multiple different maps and switch between them). Still a manual process though. The Richies solve that by buying multiple, but obviously impractical with multiple different uneven levels
I get what you're saying, but by the same logic, anything that encourages adoption of EVs (or continued use of petrol/diesel vehicles) is bad because it ultimately encourages less people to just use PT
Walking to a train station and then hopping on an electric train filled with a few hundred other people is probably the lowest CO2 way of travelling, besides pure walking cycling
Yep! Isn't it great?!?
Every single time I've tried to use Ubuntu, I manage to break apt/snapd store in a way apparently nobody else on the entire internet ever has
Genuinely don't know what I've done wrong. I install things until a couple weeks in, nothing with install. Either through the GUI store thing or through sudo apt install
Ditto
I can last 5 days without washing, but I wash everything after each use, regardless of dirt levels (I'm a very sweaty person). I could make it 7 comfortably reusing things as necessary. Although opposite to you, I've actually got about 3 weeks worth of socks, and would be okay reusing them once most of the time
Okay, it's almost been a month of owning Jason (the robot vacuum), here's my review:
review (long, rambling)
Overall, I really like it, and find it extremely helpful! I haven't vacuumed the rooms I allow Jason into (all except the bathroom and toilet room), because I think it does a fantastic job at them, and has an equal suction power to my cheap 40 dollar Kmart vacc. I do still vacuum the toilet and bathroom manually
For me, I think it fits in pretty well with my life. The biggest downfall of a robot vacuum for most people is that just about everything needs to be off the floor, including cables to TVs/extension cords, etc. it will either unplug, damage or get tangled in things that are on the floor. But that's actually a big plus for me because it encourages me to fully clean areas, rather than just vacuuming up any visible bits. It also means stuff doesn't end up under my bed, and I have to move my computer chair to let it under my desk (still a pro for me)
If I were to buy another one, I still wouldn't buy a name brand Roomba, but I would go for a couple models up with the same brand. I don't care for the automatic mopping stuff, I really just don't trust it to not try and mop the carpet, plus it's basically just dragging a wet rag over the floor. Seems pointless to me. But I'm biased because my house is about 90% carpet. Maybe if I didn't have much carpet, I would be more interested in it
Obstacle avoidance is pretty cool - it drives around mapping everything with a LIDAR sensor then remembers it. Unfortunately, if it hasn't previously mapped an obstacle, and it isn't still mapping (you lock the map so that it won't update because of temporary obstacles or people nearby), it will slam full steam ahead into them. It has a bumper on the front which pushes in to detect impacts and cushion it a little bit, but it does get pretty zippy at top speed, so I am worried in the long term it might loosen internal parts or damage things
The obstacle avoidance and detection is pretty good, but my bed legs/supports in the middle of my bed are very thin, so it doesn't detect those as obstacles, and bumps into them. I've got a baseboard on one side of one room where I guess it's shifted a bit, and the lidar sensor now sits slightly above the top of the baseboards, so it tries to vacuum them and gets confused about where it is when it bumps into them
Also, because of those floor to ceiling windows, it's been able to see some of outside, which makes it try to vacuum the grass via the window. AFAIK this is an issue with all robot vacuums, and the recommendation is to temporarily place some cardboard on them for the first mapping session so it doesn't try to break through them. Not much of an issue though, I just set a "virtual wall" just in front of the windows, so it doesn't try to break out
Still, all in all, for $160 or however much it was, I think it was very very well worth it. If you can commit to picking things up before running it, I'd recommend it. I'm not too sure about hardwood floors though, for some reason I just feel like it's not the most worth it if you don't have a lot of carpet. No particular reason or science done there though, just subjective uninformed opinion
TL;DR: Fantastic for me, maybe not the best for you because of certain limitations and difficulties. Worthwhile purchase
Yeah, I know. I meant "what's now Centrelink"
Apparently my phone came off the charger again last night :/
I think I'm moving it in my sleep
E: 1 minute after I hopped in the shower, I had a delivery which needed a signature. I didn't even hear them knock (but they did according to my camera). And the drawstring on my shorts got tangled in the washing machine, so one of them is now stuck inside while the other one has knotted itself
I reckon today's a write off, and would love to just get back into bed and try again tomorrow. But unfortunately commitments demand that I do not do such things. Gonna have a tough time trying to muster up the will to go about life today though
They're still chasing debts from the 70s? I highly doubt anybody that worked for Centrelink in the 70s is even still there today! Now I want to know how much that debt is, because I really can't fathom even CL chasing 45 year old debts unless they're for hundreds of thousands of dollars
Update: today has kinda been a write off, but not as much as I was anticipating, which means I've ended the day a bit happier than I started it
I did however forget that I have school work due tonight, that I haven't even started yet 😬 but in my defence, it's been the holidays, and the unit we did before isn't due for a couple of months, while this one we started in late Dec and only got 1 class on (I think) is due now. Breaks the brain a little. Legal and ethical, too, but of a bleh module