Post #68869

2025-12-16 10:58 UTC

I’ve had a dumb Roomba (560? 650?) for years. The worst they can do is stop making replacement batteries and brushes available, and there’s plenty of third-party alternatives. Who buys a smart device when a dumb one is available and does the job just as well. 🤷‍♂️

Replies (3)

@ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-16 12:14

I’ve had a dumb roomba for years too, and I was decently happy with it, but i switched to a new roborock this year…and holy shit, the roomba sucks ass compared to the roborock. It absolutely does not do the job as well, comparatively it hardly does a job at all.

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@dmtalon@infosec.pub 2025-12-16 15:37

Ya, hard disagree here, while 100% the new features could have been kept in device, vs cloud but the difference between our (770?) that just bounces around until it runs out of battery (and gets stuck in the SAME place Everytime it hits that spot vs. the newer one vacuums the whole floor and can be told to avoid the problematic area(s) is pretty huge. Now, the new one has a host of its own issues but when it works it’s a much better product that produces much better results. All that said I think the software has gone to crap over the years and the newer (i7) actually is less reliable than it was the first 6-8 months we owned it.

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@Rooster326@programming.dev 2025-12-16 21:17

The dumb ones just bounce around, don’t they? My pops had one like that. It would clean about 40% of the floor. Missing some spots and covering some spots 10+ times. Then go fuck it, and say cleaning complete.

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