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Privacy (for robot vacuums) isn't cheap. via the Verge.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was a badly thought out product, I agree. It also failed quite spectacularly because of it. I just brought it up because it was actually a really good deal based on the device quality itself. Sadly the entire press can’t even use normal burlap pouches with fruit inside, it doesn’t produce the pressure. It might have been a turd, but by god, they put as much gold on it as they could.

I think juicers themselves can be a good product, but not with an idiotic business model behind it too. Oh and they should not require WiFi access for DRM verification of the juice packets and device.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of the lessons I have learned as an engineer is that device quality doesn't matter if you do not need a high quality device. There are times when you need a high quality press. Squeezing juice out of a pouch is not one of them. All of that extra quality you bought is doing nothing, because all you are using it for is squeezing juice out of a pouch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair. Although it is nice seeing needlessly well built products when they do pop up (as long as you don’t need to pay for that extra build quality, of course)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, you can just like buy frozen fruit and let it melt into juice. Not sure how that would work with apples/oranges (never see them as frozen fruit) but I don't care for the mentioned since they're so high in sugar baseline but my tip here def works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frozen fruit as in normal packets of frozen whatever? It’s an interesting idea you mentioned, tell me more

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just do it. Go buy a bag of frozen strawberries or whatever frozen fruit you would like to turn into a smoothie and just let it defrost until you've got a Juicero-style juice pack

Edit: if you don't cut the top and its still like hermetically sealed, you basically and literally have the same thing—juice pack.