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"Smart" devices have turned me 180 degees from a tech enthusiast to quasi-Luddite. (startrek.website)
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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Like, I'm looking into robotic lawnmowers. Which seem to come in three types:

  1. Perimeter wire "10 drive forward until you hit something; 20 turn a random amount; 30 goto 10" types

  2. GPS plus a beacon you install on your property guided things that don't work under trees and still require an internet uplink

  3. Camera/LIDAR guided ones that require an internet uplink because the processing is done on "the cloud."

Meanwhile there's some kid in Europe who's put together a GPS guided one that does all the processing on a raspberry pi onboard. You teach it its boundaries by driving it around with an Xbox controller. Why does this need "the cloud?"

I still love the idea of digital automation, I don't want anything to do with this world where a multi-thousand dollar lawn bot is dependent on a server on the internet somewhere and they can either sell your data to Lithuanian data rapists or "iMow is now a subscription service, to ever mow your lawn again, enter your payment details so that we can charge you $9.99 while leaking your data to Lithuanian data rapists."

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

100% this.

But also "We're shutting down the servers for iMow 1 after which it will become unusable and we will not release an SDK or OTA update to allow 3rd party firmware. Please visit your nearest retailer to purchase iMow 2 and we promise we won't do the same thing to it in 2 years.

[–] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like itd be pretty trivial to have it be able to just repeat the path everytime. Just make sure you always start it in the same place. The first run could still be done with an xbox controller or whatever but i dont see why youd even need GPS, itd just have to remember a set of instructions

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

You don't want spinny razor blade boi running around on dead reckoning alone. what if the wheels slip?