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I use a broom, faster than any of these bots, cheaper, environment friendly and 100% private.
People that take a bucket to the river for their water don't have to worry about plumbing leaks. Not having to spend time gathering water is worth the time of dealing with plumbing for me. I feel similarly towards having to do surface level vacuuming vs the time of dealing with firewalls.
Aka, automate the boring stuff
It’s well known that brooms are the pinnacle of cybersecurity among cleaning tools! Every smart device is a potential target for hackers, while these dumb tools stand as an impenetrable fortress. Forget about remote hacking; the only way to breach a broom’s defences is with good old-fashioned physical access and a hacksaw. As long as you keep your brooms locked up tight, nobody will be hacking them. Better yet, being 100% software-free, there’s no pesky malware or bloatware either. Brooms also take wireless security very seriously. No hardware kill switches are needed when there’s zero communication in either direction.
I don't like brooms indoors, they stir up dust instead of sucking it up like vacuums do. A regular vacuum does just fine for me.
Wrong, they spread less dust as an vacuum cleaner do. because a vacuum cleaner suck in one end and blow on the other. After some uses this thing begin to spread a lot of the dust in the whole air. The little dust spreaded by an broom is only very limited locally.
This. Vaccumes smell terrible, use tons of power, and make a ton of noise.
Broom sweeping dust settles after a few minutes. Just wear a mask.
I was going to check out this brand... then my neurons kicked in
My Smart Broom isn't so private