> Ocado can only work with packed goods - not weighed vegetables for example

Not quite. Packed yes, but for many vegetables they have both item count and weight-based packages, e.g. "4 potatoes" vs "1kg potatoes".

I think that strikes the right balance.

Interesting, however in my case we have someone who eats a banana each day with breakfast. There's no way to buy 7 bananas in your weekly shop!

> In short, counter arguments to articles like this almost write themselves.

Yes, arguments that are facts-and-numbers-free are easy to write, but that applies to any topic, not just space data centers.

> a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range

Which robot is that?

Neato's D-Series Botvac just works (e.g., BVD8-SD/HP). No Bluetooth. No cloud. No Wi-Fi. Zero network connectivity required. Had mine about 10 years. Replaced the battery once, probably due for another one. Still cleans well.

I don't understand the appeal of having local appliances bound to the fate of network services.

I have a Neato D650 which I assume meets that classification and is covered by the service withdrawal, it is now pretty degraded -- no notifications, no mapping, no keep-out zones.

No notifications means if it gets stuck it stays there.

No mapping means if it doesn't fully clean the space (eg, a door is closed) then I have no way of knowing without baby-sitting it.

No keep-out zones means every clean involves carefully preparing the space to hang up trailing wires out of the way -- previously I just had some keep-outs near the wires and that worked perfectly.

Without all these features I have stopped using it; it is quicker to just use a stick vacuum.

I've got a robot vac and only use it "manually" they do get stuck from time to time, but its just grab it and stick it down in whatever area.

The house has stairs in bits anyway.

If it was on a schedule it could only do the bit it was in if I left a door open, so why not just use it manually ?

I have never let it on the WiFi.

Dreame with Valetudo

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html

I mean it's _every_ robot with valetudo, but I don't think any manufacturer sells their robots with valetudo preinstalled.

My Roborock S5 or 6. I bought it from a stranger, put it on the floor and pressed the power button.

There are no commercially available EVs with mechanical parking brakes, so it's not a Hyundai problem.

> For me the whole point of getting it was a slightly console like experience

You say this, but talk about the difficulty of 3rd party stores and installing ISOs. A console like experience means using Steam alone, and not even considering desktop mode.

Do you have evidence of ai slop, or are you just spreading fud? The linked bug was acknowledged as real.

That is completely irrelevant, the gross part is that (if true) they are demanding them to be fixed in a given time. Sounds like the epitome of entitlement to me, to say the least.

No one is demanding anything, the report itself is a 90 day grace period before being publicly published. If the issues are slop then what exactly is your complaint?

google literally tells them it's an ai generated report

That is not the definition of slop.

if it's unwanted then it is

and the ffmpeg maintainers say it's not wanted

so it's slop

It’s a reproducible use-after-free in a codec that ships by default with most desktop and server distributions. It can be leveraged in an exploit chain to compromise a system.

I'm not a Google fan, but if the maintainers are unable to understand that, I welcome a fork.

It's a $50 add-on on their website.

Mudguards should be default for bikes. It's absurd that when it rains people ride bikes and walk around with a stripe of shite up their back and front b/c manufacturers are too cheap to include fenders (mudguards) on bikes.

The customers aren't much smarter of course - they bought the bike! Anyone fool enough to walk around (twice) looking like that deserves ridicule.

> customers aren't much smarter of course - they bought the bike

You seem to have undermined your argument for selling mid guards as a default.

> Anyone fool enough to walk around (twice) looking like that deserves ridicule

Whatever floats your boat.

> Wi-Fi 7 4x4 MIMO routers

Are there any such routers? And even if there are, are there any clients? The last 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi client I can remember was the Asus PCE-AC88, a Wi-Fi 5 NIC from 2016.

> your body set point

... is a pseudoscientific myth.

I've had it for a while actually. Maybe they are rolling it out slowly?

Oh... my bad ! Turns out it was disabled by default... so yes, one less reason to use the standalone app.