I apologize, but I’m not sure I understand what point you’re making here?
It seems like such a strange comment- surely there is a gulf of difference between a commercial robot that will be interacted with by a few trained factory workers and something which is sold to everyday people and on public streets right?
Can you elaborate more on the comparison you’re trying to draw?
I am trying to take it in good faith, but I’m genuinely at a loss trying to understand what you’re going for.
It’s not intended to be a consumer replaceable connector. People opened up the device and figured out that you can get to that cable, but it’s not mentioned anywhere and not designed to be used directly.
They’re not trying to force a new connector on anyone - they don’t even sell anything that uses it that part.
It’s the way one proprietary part talks to another proprietary part.
If you want to charge the system through USB-C, it has a port for that on the battery pack.
> It’s not intended to be a consumer replaceable connector.
Isn't this exactly what people are complaining about though? Yes, you can design this to not be consumer replaceable, but would it be that much more effort to just use a more standard connector instead?
Interesting — what sort of big-ticket items do people buy on Amazon that would add up to $7k? I don't buy computers or TVs there (prices are better elsewhere IME), and I can't think of anything else I buy that is in the several-thousand-dollar range. Honestly TVs wouldn't even do it, since I buy them infrequently and spend hundreds (not thousands) on them.
We do buy a lot of smaller items, and it's possible we spend $7k in total on an annual basis. But I'm curious what sort of regular big-ticket purchases might make this add up.
There's also the higher discount at Whole Foods, but honestly I've found their pricing to be so high in recent months that I don't go there at all. Bread, eggs, and milk were 40% more than at Trader Joes. They do have great deals occasionally, but the vast majority of our grocery purchases are staples that are typically quite expensive there.
There are non-Amazon cards that will also give 5% at Amazon, but also at other online retailers. For example if you have at least $100k in BofA accounts their "Customized Cash Rewards" card gives you 5.25% in your chosen category [1].
At first that doesn't seem like a good deal. Who keeps $100k in their checking and savings accounts? But BofA owns Merrill and they include Merrill accounts in the total.
[1] Categories are online shopping, gas & EV charging, dining, drug stores, home improvement & furnishing, and travel. You can change categories once in each calendar month.
From what I recall when I registered some time back, it was possible to simply use any debit card for the process. This meant there was no need to share login details with anyone.
Their documentation may provide more current details than I can though.
This is the point where I've realized I just have to wait until history is written, rather than trying to follow this in real time.
The situation is too convoluted, and too many people are playing the media to try to advance their version of the narrative.
When there is enough distance from the situation for a proper historical retrospective to be written, I look forward to getting a better view of what actually happened.
Hah. I think you may be duped by history - the neat logical accounts are often fictions - they explain what was inexplicable with fabrications.
Studying revolutions is revealing - they are rarely the invevitable product of historical forces, executed to the plans of strategic minded players... instead they are often accidental and inexplicable. Those credited as their masterminds were trying to stop them. Rather than inevitible, there was often progress in the opposite direction making people feel the liklihood was decreasing. The confusing paradoxical mess of great events doesn't make for a good story to tell others though.
It's a pretty interesting point to think about. Post-hoc explanations are clean, neat, and may or may not have been prepared by someone with a particular interpretation of events. While real-time, there's too much happening, too quickly, for any one person to really have a firm grasp on the entire situation.
On our present stage there is no director, no stage manager; the set is on fire. There are multiple actors - with more showing up by the minute - some of whom were working off a script that not everyone has seen, and that is now being rewritten on the fly, while others don't have any kind of script at all. They were sent for; they have appeared to take their place in the proceedings with no real understanding of what those are, like Rosencranz and Guildenstern.
This is kind of what the end thesis of War and Peace was like - there's no possible way that Napoleon could actually have known what was happening everywhere on the battlefield - by the time he learned something had happened, events on the scene had already advanced well past it; and the local commanders had no good understanding of the overall situation, they could only play their bit parts. And in time, these threads of ignorance wove a tale of a Great Victory, won by the Great Man Himself.
That's not how history works. What you read are the tellings of the people and those aren't all facts but how they perceived the situation in a retrospective. Read the biographies of different people telling the same event and you will notice that they are quite never the same, leaving the unfavourable bits usually out.
Written history is usually a simplification that has lost a lot of the context and nuance from it.
I don't need to follow in real-time, but a lot of the context and nuance can be clearly understood at the moment and so it stills helps to follow along even if that means lagging on the input.
And for so-called tech influencers to rapidly blanket the field of discourse with their theories so they can say their theory was right later on, or making “emergency podcasts/blog posts/etc.” to get more attention and followers. It’s so exhausting.
Did you happen to know that not everyone is required to file a federal income tax statement?
The IRS does not require you to pay income tax, or file taxes, unless you make over $19,400 (as of 2022)
https://www.irs.gov/publications/p501
It's really difficult to tell what percentage of people that applies to, but just for one example I got from Google, The Tax Policy Center estimates that 70 Million Americans do not need to pay income tax.
I am only half serious about that....should have pointed that out. Interesting links though. Correct that not everyone with income is required to file, though they should. I did not know the income level was that high though, would have guessed half that.
Just a guess but I think that overlap is probably pretty large. I would think the majority of people who don't owe taxes are due to lower incomes who would not be required to file and that is offset with deductions....purely a guess though.
Consumers should have an option. Accept the replacement value or the manufacturer has to repair or replace the unit at their cost. If manufacturers want to try to source a million used dehumidifiers that don’t have this problem, they should go for it. Don’t dump that responsibility on consumers though.
I suspect though that a unit that retails for $100 costs them $25-$35. It would be cheaper to just replace all of them with new ones.
If the “worn out dehumidifier” was a fire risk the whole time, the manufacturer should consider themselves lucky if they get away with just providing the cost of a replacement now.
It seems like such a strange comment- surely there is a gulf of difference between a commercial robot that will be interacted with by a few trained factory workers and something which is sold to everyday people and on public streets right?
Can you elaborate more on the comparison you’re trying to draw?
I am trying to take it in good faith, but I’m genuinely at a loss trying to understand what you’re going for.