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There's an uncanny valley effect for how i treat objects. A stuffed animal I'll treat very well, but I'll yell at Siri that it's a piece of shit.
Fracking clankers huh?
Hmm, how do you treat your Roomba?
Like interacting with a particularly stupid puppy, I suppose.
This comment made me think that it comes down to how useful something is.
The roomba is very helpful, even though it takes a bit of extra maintenance. Siri/Google are absolutely worthless assistants that can't play a single song correctly 80% of the time. Even when they work it's only gotten less convenient.
Common interactions go:
Me: hey Google, what is something
Google: I don't know. According to this website answers the question
Or worse, google: I've sent the results to your device!
Googly eyes or no?
I can't put googly eyes on my Roomba, they interfere with the LIDAR. I almost cried when I realized, why should you have a Roomba, if you can't put googly eyes on it?
You can't put them on the top?
There is a little LIDAR tower on top of the Roomba. I could put the eyes on top of the tower, but there is not enough space, and it would look kind of weird. And if I put the eyes on the top of the Roomba, beneath the tower, the LIDAR can't see through the eyes. It's a tragic irony, really.
Why would small pieces of plastic interfere with an antenna?
Lidar is laser, not radio
Theirs is a predator, not a prey room a.