They were already getting shafted, by your definition, as they were already buying digital only games.

3 years? About 15 years for me. Whenever civ 5 was released.

The roller has been solved a few years ago. The split-roller design doesn’t need any maintenance, no hair tangles in the two years I owned mine. Plenty of robots use it, as the patent expired.

What is your price range, a button and two shells? The S5 can be found for 50 bucks used.

At the risk of sounding like an ad, roborock (xiaomi) makes fantastic vacuums. Great navigation, great cleaning performance, obstacle avoidance (cables, socks, etc) depends on the model.

They do offer a meter interface if you want to have it offline, but I’m quite happy with the (cloud based) app, allows a bit more control.

It integrates with home assistant but it sometimes goes “unavailable”, the matter integration is a bit more stable for that.

I sure other manufacturers also have great ones, check “vacuum wars” on YouTube.

Lemmy users don’t care about reality, you’re talking to a brick wall basically.

It’s open source. Feel free to write your own software, or pay someone to do it for you.

You reduced it to about 70% of the population.