@mike808 Let’s put some grist in the mill for those Mediocre product buyers. Popsockets have reached the meh phase of the hype cycle - they’ve graduated from being used by high school students to gracing the phones of the hip crowd at the senior center.
But Meh’s product buyer still agonizes over which meh face to pop on the socket?!?
Here’s the grist: sell blank popsockets (oh so meh!) and offer meh-tizens a selection of meh-face sticker sheets to decorate their pop socket. A sticker sheet might have a dozen meh-faces to choose from; sets could consist of popular faces, rare faces, holiday faces, best-of faces (editors choice), what-were-we-thinking faces, etc… Future popsocket sales would of course offer a random grab bag for those hoping to cash in on the lucrative meh-face popsocket collector’s market.
@mike808@mwarren
The other option is the Meh buyer is waiting for a genital licking offer. I say take one for the team.
Post it on Instagram and then maybe you could be a D-List celeb?
@mike808@mwarren Thanks for the gratuitous swipe at anyone older than you, pal. [“gracing the phones of the hip crowd at the senior center.”]
People who think it’s OK to knock older people are slashing their own tires. And I’m not one of these walking around “offended” types. It’s just that it seems not so long ago people I knew were saying “don’t trust anyone over 40.” Equally stupid.
Print this out and tuck it in some book or something where you will forget it is there and find it years from now.
@mwarren@radi0j0hn
I know what a 4-way is. I have one in my trunk. And it beats any multi-function POS half-fast 1-way they’re putting in cars these days.
I was referring to the age-challenged folks that have slashed tires would not know what a 4-way is or why an age-endowed person would have one in the trunk.
I’m referring to “age” in this context as the immutably fixed pace irreversible acquisition of valued knowledge, a.k.a. experience.
And for those that denigrate the experienced generations, think on this fact:
Humans are the only species that has evolved the means to transfer survival knowledge from one individual to later generations by any means other than genetics.
This has important implications in species survivability and societal value that isn’t a direct artifact of parentage or a condemnation of offspring. That is, until the idiots that don’t believe in climate change kill us all.
So I got one of these a while back. They are the dumbest of the smart vacuum. They will pick up a lot of stuff but they also tend to get caught in any cord or pretty much anything you leave out. Ours would go under the couch, but then it couldn’t get out from the couch. It is also strong enough to push things out of the way that I would put in front of the couch to try and stop it from going under there. If you could just leave it in one area without anything to get stuck under or cords to get wrapped up in, I would say it might be worth it. Ours is giving us the drop sensor error. It is apparently always in a constant state of feeling like its falling.
@kylejwilke
You could just put your burly weights in boxes under the couch. The other option is to maybe tape a box to the front of it? That way it might hit the bottom of the couch on the way in…
Just lobbing grenades blindly here.
Yeah I saw Alita on opening weekend and thought it was a great movie. Vacuums are meh though. Especially robot ones. What I actually need is a robot to clear the clutter around my house enough that a robot vacuum could actually navigate it and have some floor space to clean.
@Al_Coholic “What I actually need is a robot to clear the clutter around my house enough that a robot vacuum could actually navigate it and have some floor space to clean.”. OMG! Finally someone said what I have been thinking since these things came out. Who doesn’t have crap sitting on their floors? And if I am going to go through the process of moving everything, I may as well vacuum/sweep in the process. Our whole house is hardwood, so who’s would be a godsend if it worked!
Thanks to a T-Mobile Tuesdays promotion, I saw Alita: Battle Angel in IMAX-3D for $4.00. I left the theater feeling like I had gotten my money’s worth. It reminded me of the old (as in circa 1995) Mac video game Power Pete: an immense amount of on-screen carnage rendered watchable thanks to a gimmick.
Cameron envisioned this as the first movie in a trilogy, and if they make the sequel I’ll probably go see it.
@sippinndippin If you’re a T-Mobile customer, have the T-Mobile Tuesdays app on your phone, and open the app on any Tuesday, you’ll find giveaways and discounts. Recurring discounts include 10¢ or 25¢/gal. off of Shell gasoline, free Redbox rentals, $2 Dunkin or B&R gift cards, $4 movies via Atom, and, my personal annual favorite (coming up in a few weeks), free MLB.TV and At Bat Premium subscriptions.
Re: Alita — Read the manga. Although I can’t say it makes any more sense, at least it makes the movie make more sense. Alita gets more complex as she gets older too.
@ando140 did they have the speaker/charger/coffee maker machine too? It could’ve been in cahoots with another machine.See… my fears might be right. Glad I didn’t buy this thing. I think Meh is trying to take over the world one freaky machine at a time.
i can see this thing banding together with my overworked digitals and taking me out one night as i head to the bathroom in the dark… then sucking away the evidence…as i may be dust b4 someone finds me… on second thought… my other digitals are to tired… this thing would just go rogue… take me down as the others would tiredly cheer…
Another impulse buy on my part, and no doubt impulse buyers are Meh’s business model. The thing works pretty well. Just make sure to keep an eye out for obstacles and it does a good job.
@prizm2001 Most routers have both 2.4g and 5g. Your phone doesn’t have to be on the same frequency, just the same network. Mine can control it just fine from the 5g side, but it does get stuck a lot more than the roomba and other round no name brand.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Robot Vacuum
1x Charging dock
1x Remote Control
Price Comparison
$215 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year Ecovacs
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Cheap, but too bad reviews are extra Meh. Not worth half the asking price sorry Meh
@Stallion - these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
Meh
@seeds
@Ignorant thanks
/image ignorant thanks
Taking “this sucks” to new levels. Nice.
Read the amazon reviews. Nuff said
Didn’t someone just ask for roombas? Merry Christmas, next goat.
Alita would like this in a kinda creepy way.
Since none of the literature comes straight to the point, I’ll put it out there: for cleaning hard surfaces only. Not intended for carpet.
I only discovered this after setting mine up on the charger and sitting down with the instructions. Too bad 90% of my house is carpeted.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I will keep using a broom on my carpet…
STILL
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@mike808 Let’s put some grist in the mill for those Mediocre product buyers. Popsockets have reached the meh phase of the hype cycle - they’ve graduated from being used by high school students to gracing the phones of the hip crowd at the senior center.
But Meh’s product buyer still agonizes over which meh face to pop on the socket?!?
Here’s the grist: sell blank popsockets (oh so meh!) and offer meh-tizens a selection of meh-face sticker sheets to decorate their pop socket. A sticker sheet might have a dozen meh-faces to choose from; sets could consist of popular faces, rare faces, holiday faces, best-of faces (editors choice), what-were-we-thinking faces, etc… Future popsocket sales would of course offer a random grab bag for those hoping to cash in on the lucrative meh-face popsocket collector’s market.
@mike808 @mwarren
POG! I knew it would return. Been saving my collection sense before those kiddies were born.
@mike808 @mwarren
The other option is the Meh buyer is waiting for a genital licking offer. I say take one for the team.
Post it on Instagram and then maybe you could be a D-List celeb?
@mike808 @mwarren Solution: blank popsockets and a gross of slightly irregular Sharpies. DIY meh-tacular.
@mike808 @mwarren Thanks for the gratuitous swipe at anyone older than you, pal. [“gracing the phones of the hip crowd at the senior center.”]
People who think it’s OK to knock older people are slashing their own tires. And I’m not one of these walking around “offended” types. It’s just that it seems not so long ago people I knew were saying “don’t trust anyone over 40.” Equally stupid.
Print this out and tuck it in some book or something where you will forget it is there and find it years from now.
@mwarren @radi0j0hn
And have no idea what a 4-way is, and don’t know anyone who keeps one in the trunk.
@mike808 A 4-way is not one of the more common kinds of bed antics, but it’s even less common to have one in the trunk.
@mike808 A 4-way in my trunk gets the nuts off far faster than someone else’s 1-way! @radi0j0hn Good thing it’s there too; there might be some slashed tires needin’ a fixin’?
@mike808 @mwarren I’m missing your reference. 4 way, like Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice? (Old bad 70’s movie I never saw.)
@mwarren @radi0j0hn
I know what a 4-way is. I have one in my trunk. And it beats any multi-function POS half-fast 1-way they’re putting in cars these days.
I was referring to the age-challenged folks that have slashed tires would not know what a 4-way is or why an age-endowed person would have one in the trunk.
I’m referring to “age” in this context as the immutably fixed pace irreversible acquisition of valued knowledge, a.k.a. experience.
And for those that denigrate the experienced generations, think on this fact:
This has important implications in species survivability and societal value that isn’t a direct artifact of parentage or a condemnation of offspring. That is, until the idiots that don’t believe in climate change kill us all.
It’s the E.Kovacs vacuums again…
/image ernie kovacs
So I got one of these a while back. They are the dumbest of the smart vacuum. They will pick up a lot of stuff but they also tend to get caught in any cord or pretty much anything you leave out. Ours would go under the couch, but then it couldn’t get out from the couch. It is also strong enough to push things out of the way that I would put in front of the couch to try and stop it from going under there. If you could just leave it in one area without anything to get stuck under or cords to get wrapped up in, I would say it might be worth it. Ours is giving us the drop sensor error. It is apparently always in a constant state of feeling like its falling.
My vacuum in stuck in a nightmare.
@kylejwilke
You could just put your burly weights in boxes under the couch. The other option is to maybe tape a box to the front of it? That way it might hit the bottom of the couch on the way in…
Just lobbing grenades blindly here.
When robot vacuums are able to cover an entire room, then I will start to worry about A.I. The Ecovacs puts my mind at ease.
Wow, this thing truly sucks.
I got one of these in a fuku bag, it’s actually pretty useful.
Yeah I saw Alita on opening weekend and thought it was a great movie. Vacuums are meh though. Especially robot ones. What I actually need is a robot to clear the clutter around my house enough that a robot vacuum could actually navigate it and have some floor space to clean.
@Al_Coholic “What I actually need is a robot to clear the clutter around my house enough that a robot vacuum could actually navigate it and have some floor space to clean.”. OMG! Finally someone said what I have been thinking since these things came out. Who doesn’t have crap sitting on their floors? And if I am going to go through the process of moving everything, I may as well vacuum/sweep in the process. Our whole house is hardwood, so who’s would be a godsend if it worked!
@wildmomo That’s funny, I also think about it just about every time, but for some reason never thought to mention it before.
What about the whole robot vacuums are maping and selling it thing?
Thanks to a T-Mobile Tuesdays promotion, I saw Alita: Battle Angel in IMAX-3D for $4.00. I left the theater feeling like I had gotten my money’s worth. It reminded me of the old (as in circa 1995) Mac video game Power Pete: an immense amount of on-screen carnage rendered watchable thanks to a gimmick.
Cameron envisioned this as the first movie in a trilogy, and if they make the sequel I’ll probably go see it.
@benf_dc
Tell me more about said T mobile promotion plz.
@sippinndippin https://www.t-mobile.com/offers/t-mobile-tuesdays
@sippinndippin If you’re a T-Mobile customer, have the T-Mobile Tuesdays app on your phone, and open the app on any Tuesday, you’ll find giveaways and discounts. Recurring discounts include 10¢ or 25¢/gal. off of Shell gasoline, free Redbox rentals, $2 Dunkin or B&R gift cards, $4 movies via Atom, and, my personal annual favorite (coming up in a few weeks), free MLB.TV and At Bat Premium subscriptions.
Re: Alita — Read the manga. Although I can’t say it makes any more sense, at least it makes the movie make more sense. Alita gets more complex as she gets older too.
/giphy direct suction
Keep it away from the couch http://www.fox19.com/2019/02/15/robotic-vacuum-blame-ky-house-fire/
@ando140 Wait my take-away from this is this is a good idea!
@ando140 did they have the speaker/charger/coffee maker machine too? It could’ve been in cahoots with another machine.See… my fears might be right. Glad I didn’t buy this thing. I think Meh is trying to take over the world one freaky machine at a time.
I’d rather have a pop socket
Would’ve bought, but scared that my soon-to-arrive speaker/charger/coffee maker might band together with this robot and take over my home.
i can see this thing banding together with my overworked digitals and taking me out one night as i head to the bathroom in the dark… then sucking away the evidence…as i may be dust b4 someone finds me… on second thought… my other digitals are to tired… this thing would just go rogue… take me down as the others would tiredly cheer…
My wife has a Roomba, will this battle the Roomba for living room dominance?
Another impulse buy on my part, and no doubt impulse buyers are Meh’s business model. The thing works pretty well. Just make sure to keep an eye out for obstacles and it does a good job.
No good on carpet. Grrrr.
Not compatible with 5g WiFi… so cannot control with my phone. Keeps getting stuck and never find its way home. Disappointed.
@prizm2001 Now there is a proper humble brag!
@prizm2001 Most routers have both 2.4g and 5g. Your phone doesn’t have to be on the same frequency, just the same network. Mine can control it just fine from the 5g side, but it does get stuck a lot more than the roomba and other round no name brand.
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