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@tess Saddest part:
These thing are built like tanks, and trivial to swap parts for repairs.
(I've got one which approaching 15years )

I.e.: capitalism has forgotten how to be successful, without so much planned obsolescence that you need to throw away and replace an expensive device every two years.

Also works wrt Roomba being able to work without a cloud connection, and modern capitalism unable to stop slurping all your private data and resell them for profits