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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/25/2025 7:49 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   > On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:12:23 +1300, Your Name   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Killed because robot vacuum cleaners (and robot lawn mowers, and robot   
   >> mops) are useless, gimmicky devices that unsurprisingly never lived up   
   >> to the hype.   
   >   
   > Our Roomba worked quite well, and probably still would if we   
   > dug it out of storage.  An upright vaccuum cleaner is much   
   > faster, but you can operate a Roomba while sitting in a lift   
   > chair, and you don't have to move the furniture.   
   >   
   > When we had to hire our vaccuuming done, we bought an   
   > upright.   
   >   
      
   We have one in my wife's studio, but it has a hard floor.   
   It runs at night.   
      
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