The public sidewalk has no privacy policy, either, and I show my face there all the time. Same goes for the airport, restaurants, every ATM, and every convenience store that takes videos of my face.
Hmm, I just tried this with a few pictures, including one of mine. I forgot about all the "your selfies are being data-mined by the bad guys!" stories.
Ever heard of browser fingerprinting? If this site is doing it, now it has my IP, my browser fingerprint, and my face (as well as some friends' faces...). Search for my face on Facebook and they have my name too. Sell to marketer.
I do not trust Eufy brand anymore. We had a Eufy RoboVac and within its warranty period, battery went bust. When attached to its station, it gave some sound errors which is apparently tied to its battery. I contacted support several times, reminded their obligation for warranty period but they did nothing. They asked me to find a "certified technician" to get a report such that this malfunction was present when I made the purchase. I asked what do they want as "certified technician" and where can I get one. They stopped replying. This took a week.
Fortunately I bought the item from Amazon. I issued a dispute and within minutes they created a return label and issued a refund.
As usual, a bunch of ripoff Chinese competitors will sell you a cheaper piece of shit that you'll find yourself throwing away in three years. Resist the temptation.
Yeah. I got a squeaky wheel on my Roomba 960, sent an email to customer services, they just sent me a whole new wheel module with instructions on how to replace it. Really really great service. And it looks like pretty much all parts of the robot can be bought and replaced separately.
Note: Create 2 is just low-end 6xx missing a few parts. If you're going to buy it just for robotics experiments, just buy the cheapest models that looks exactly the same(not E5, 690 or 800), or older(OG, 400, 500). Costs the same but when you're bored they vacuum your floors!
In my opinion, the iRobot support and parts availability are worth the premium. Our 2013 model 650 is still running great. All we’ve had to do is periodically replace worn out brushes and spinners and at some point we replaced the main battery. This is all easily done with a screwdriver.
Totally agree. I just checked my order history: I bought my current Roomba 650 in May 2014, so it's been running 4-5 days a week for almost 6 years straight with various simple part replacements. Really great little product, and excellent customer support and user community.
At one point the tread wore out on the wheels, so it was struggling to get over the threshold into different rooms. Rather than buy a whole new set of wheels, I found a blog saying that Kirby 301291 vacuum cleaner belts just happen to perfectly fit on roomba wheels and work as replacement treads. Now it's been happily rolling around on vacuum belts for the past year or more.
I absolutely agree. I got a broken 650 from my sister, fixed it with a cheap easily available part, and it has worked beautifully for the last three years.
It is also a joy to maintain and was obviously designed by people who care about maintenance being reasonable.
Anker has utterly lost my faith - all 3 Anker QI charging pads failed within months, and the USB-C to A cables I bought more recently don't want to stay connected on the data pins.
The battery on my RoboVac 11 went bust right out of the warranty period even if it probably had ~15 recharge cycles on it. Bought a replacement (~30E) and the vacuum is happily chugging along doing a good job. This being said I assume Eufy is saving money on that front so I'm not entirely sure my next purchase will be from them.
so I take it the battery is user replacable? That's my worry with most of these electronics, the product can be fine, but if the battery is welded in place, then it becomes a huge PITA to replace.
Easily, one screw and a lid away on this model [0]. Phones are a bit harder to work inside with the constrained space and far more delicate parts (screen, screws, etc.). Maybe for a vacuum this is a lot harder to achieve even if manufacturers insist on it.
My anecdote: our Eufy has been working great for just under a year, now. We have a lab that sheds bucket-loads off hair, and it is generally able to keep things clean. The only real problem is that I was a bit over aggressive cleaning the roller brush, and removed some padding, and now I need to get a new one.
I bought a Neato XV 21 something like 6 or 7 years ago. Still doing great, I've only changed the filters and battery pack once. we moved to a house a few months ago and it still manages to vacuum the entire upper floor (~800sqft) with 1.5 passes.
I am late to the party but here it goes. Everybody recommends to take care of the team and nurture. But nobody mentions what to do with slackers. Tech leads don't have the authority to hire/fire people but responsible for their performance. If one decides to only give 10% of their time to work, how one can motivate them?
One of the best answers on the whole thread. It is good to know the things I suffer most (no deep work because of interruptions) are quite common. Your post deserves to be much higher on the thread.
Sheer amount you make means nothing as your expenses may also be higher. If you live where you are the 2% while making 50k then you would feel it. Otherwise it's dry statistics.
Hence you don't have a safety net and can't be an entrepreneur. If you can take the chance of getting rich or becoming homeless, good luck with that. Otherwise, 9-5 jobs are the only option.
If you are middle class (~$30k-$70k per annum) you can be wealthy* by focusing your spending on freedom, aka capital investments. I did not understand this was an option before reading the blog of Mr. Money Mustache[0]. Reading that and the Living a FI blog[1] may hopefully be as life-changing to you reading this comment as it was for me.
Woah, I've encountered me 4 years ago online. You sound just like I did.
To past me, I highly recommend audiobooking "Millionaire Fastlane". Do not let the awkward title turn you off. It'll put you in a much more productive mindset than Mr. Mustache.
What impact did this book have on you? What have you achieved since reading it that you otherwise would not have? Investments? What other books do you recommend?
I've adopted less of a scarcity mentality, and it reinforced the notion that I'll never get rich and achieve my goals by staying the course in my career. Not rich before age 65 at any rate.
Another book I recommend is "How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big". Adams has a great approach of using systems instead of goals.
I didn't know about MMM, thanks for that. I've learned about this phenomenon on a different website [1] and amazed by it. Small investments over a long period makes a huge difference but still, you need a long enough period or put huge amounts at the right time of the market. S&P 500 has worst performance of -3% over 10 year period. It gets better after 15 years and so on. Investing and hoping to retire early during this window is certainly not going to work.
I think everybody who works 9-5 should read the story about Grace Groner in [1]. It was a real eye opener for me.
I like MMM as much as the next person, but saying that his project of "live cheaply on dual, 6-figure incomes" is a workable path to FI for people making $30k-$70k is disingenuous.
This website however, present a Privacy Policy: https://selfie2anime.com/
I am not promoting one site or another. I did not read the PP of the selfie2anime.com either.
You can check the other implementations here (currently only two):
https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT#web-page