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In case you weren’t joking, there’s an excellent project called valetudo that allows you to neuter the phone-home capabilities of supported models of these dodgy chinese spyware machines that happen to also clean your house, with very decent home assistant compatibility.

If you’re buying a 1k+ $£€ robot, make sure you really own it properly and hack it.

Bames Jonds havink a stronk. Call a bondulance.

Owned by an Israeli billionaire, with all the implications that come with that.

I would like to add a second for termix, it’s a pretty acceptable replacement and self hosting is a +.

Of course they have, it’s just the people asking for it are also the people who own, one way or another, the creatures we are presented with as political candidates. I.E. the billionaire and ownership class. What the plebs want doesn’t matter, and the squeaky wheel gets the grease every time.

I first heard a variation on this decades ago in regards to designing latches on field gates to keep horses in, but allow humans access. The problem being that a lot of horses are wicked smart and shockingly dexterous with their lips, and so many people are shockingly dense and lacking in fine motor skills.