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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 06:37:05 JST Aral Balkan

   I am now finally the owner of a Henry. This makes me far giddier than owning a vacuum cleaner should.

   PS. While in the store, had a little kid come up to the line of Henries (and one Hetty) on display, address each of them in turn, give them hugs, and tell them he loved them.

   What really guts me is knowing just how wonderful we could make this damn world if most of us weren’t in the employ of a relative handful of fucking psychopaths…

   #design

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:05:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • PirateRo

     @piratero And if it’s the right model, has mapped and shared the blueprint of your home…

     https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/technology/roomba-irobot-data-privacy.html

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     PirateRo (piratero@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:05:43 JST PirateRo

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     @aral I do not know this Henry of which you speak, but my roomba has googly eyes and a tail.

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     alexanderhay (alexanderhay@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:07:03 JST alexanderhay

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     @aral It is time, once again, to share this Henry-tastic article:

     https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/24/how-henry-vacuum-cleaner-became-accidental-design-icon

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:07:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • alexanderhay

     @alexanderhay Was just reading that. Of course the guy who made it had to “quietly back Brexit.” Because we can’t have nice things.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:08:53 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Workshopshed

     @Workshopshed Just read that all the parts you can buy today could be used to fix the original 1981 model. That’s quite something.

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     Workshopshed (workshopshed@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:08:54 JST Workshopshed

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     @aral and you can get spare parts to fix in the unlikely event something goes wrong

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:13:54 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Tim Waterman

     @timwaterman Sadly, I just read that the guy who owns it silently backed Brexit. *sigh*

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     Tim Waterman (timwaterman@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 07:13:55 JST Tim Waterman

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     @aral We've had a Henry for a decade and a half and never looked back. The other options are poor and break immediately, or that PLUS they fund the extreme right wing.