Privacy (for robot vacuums) isn’t cheap. via the Verge.

    • XTornado@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Do you also use a horse? Also good for privacy based on recent news.

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          11 months ago

          You collect them stirckly yourself? No carbon-consuming tech involved?

          I do not want to descend into some kind of “but there is always some carbon” point, I just want to point out that a robot powered by, say, solar electricity can be more green than a human-powered broom, production costs included.

          Neither of the two is perfectly green, but a solar-powered robot is more efficient in leveraging solar power than human growing and eating plants.

          Or do you think this is necessarily not so?

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            11 months ago

            I think that if we’re talking about human slave responsible only for swiping the floors that I feed vegetables and keep alive solely for the purpose of operating the broom you can be right.

            If we’re taking about the amount of calories I use while swiping and compare it with a robot that someone had to manufacture, transport and than charge using electricity it will be a clear win for the broom. Maybe if the robot lasted 50 years and I controlled my diet to the point that I was able to eat 3% of a carrot daily less because I’m not swiping any more the robot could win but it’s an absurd scenario.