Millennial here, I’ve noticed a lot of Stephanies, Sams, Alexes, Chloes, and Michelles. Matthew seemed like a particularly popular one - at one point we had 3 Matthews in the same class (about 25 students), and I had 2 Matthews in my immediate friend group in college.

Edit: Rachel/Rachael was another common one, had a couple of those in my friend group at one point too

I don’t think it’s a rip-off either, but the Dune franchise does actually involve some princesses and robots

None. We had Netflix for 8 years, but we cancelled it a couple of months ago.

Edit: scrolling through the comments made me remember that music is also a streaming service, so one - Spotify

The noise really bothered me on our old model, but it broke recently and we replaced it with a different brand. I cannot believe how quiet the new one is. I think it’s less powerful but it’s worth it just for the noise. It’s not just the suction that’s quieter either, it also runs into walls/obstacles much less aggressively.

Might be something to look into when/if you decide to replace yours! There’s probably a model out there that won’t bug your wife as much.

You’re right that I misread the hat part the first time, thanks. Still not an option for us though, and not one that would actually solve much in our case.

The lazyboy was just one example, there are other things (including areas of the floor itself) that the roomba gets stuck on. Just keeping an eye on the roomba when it runs is the easier solution for us.

Exactly! There’s been a lot of times that our roomba has surprised us, getting stuck in areas that we never thought would be a problem. It just happened to approach it from just the right angle that time

3d printing is not an option for us. Also one of the places that the roomba gets stuck is underneath a lazyboy chair, which needs to rock. We can’t just permanently put something underneath it without sacrificing a main function of the chair. There’s a lot of things around the house like this, where a temporary solution exists but a permanent one either wouldn’t be appropriate, or just isn’t worth doing.

I prefer having my living area comfortably set up for myself more than making it roomba-proof. I’m sure it’s worth it for some people, but we don’t share the same priorities.

We exclusively run ours when someone is home. It often gets stuck in certain areas and near specific furniture. We try to prevent it as much as we can but we just don’t trust it enough to let it run without a little supervision.

Edit: I am not looking for solutions. Running the roomba when we are home works fine for us and we do not intend to change the way we live or get a more expensive roomba to accommodate it. This is a perfectly fine workaround that suits our situation well. I only made this comment to point out that not everyone runs the roomba when the house is empty.

That last panel is absolutely killing me, help

looks like !gamedeals@lemmy.world is starting up!

I think they’re called communities here but I LOVE your “lemmings” idea!

Oh man I LOVE sbubby, I’m crossing all my fingers and toes that we get an equivalent here!

I think I saw a headphones community when I was browsing earlier. I’ll have another look for it when I’m back at my pc

edit: !headphones@lemmy.film - looks like it’s just started up, maybe you can help it along?