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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I agree that kids shouldn’t spend a lot of time behind screens. But I disagree with the fact that 30 mins is too much.

    Our oldest son watches TV while drinking milk. That’s either first thing in the morning (while still being a bit sleepy and while we get his younger brother ready) or it’s just before bed (when physically exhausted from playing all day).

    I see some benefits to watching movies instead of TV shows. Watching a movie for 30min at a time, trains his ability to focus for longer periods of time. A skill that I highly value in this era of TikTok and 30 second attention spans. He also learns to follow a story, to have empathy with the characters, to see situations in which he hasn’t found himself in yet, and so forth…

    And yes, it’s also convenient for us. During those 30min we can get his brother ready and dressed, make lunch, get ready ourselves, etc.

    Ultimately, it’s up to each parent to decide for themselves. What is an acceptable amount of screen time, and how do you spend times away from screens. For us, that’s a little bit of TV in the mornings and evenings, and no screens in between.
















  • Shoutout to @roofuskit@kbin.social for a very detailed and helpful answer. For some reason I can’t reply to your message, so I’m creating a new comment instead. Hope you see it ;)


    Wow, thanks a lot for your detailed answer and suggestions. You kind of convinced me to go for Roborock!

    The fact that local control works (after cloud setup) is great. I read somewhere that the robot will reboot if it’s been disconnected from the cloud for a long time, but that’s fine for now. Good to know that there’s a backup solution in the rare case my internet connection goes down.

    I hope one day someone will make a great vacuum robot with an open-source firmware. Imagine having something like ESPHome for vacuum robots. Wet dream!


  • I’m a bit concerned by that as well. Especially for robots with integrated cameras. I don’t mind LIDAR sensors as much. Sure, they might leak my floor plan, but I would accept that risk. Unfortunately, it seems like most robot vacuums these days are Chinese. Especially if you want vacuum+mop combo with some nice features. (Whichever one I buy, I’ll also be adding it to IoT VLAN. Separate them from the rest of my network).