🤖Need a Robot for That?

Musings on Robot Lawnmowers

Hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of The Land of Random

I am pleased to announce that my vertigo is GONE. FINALLY.

The brain fog/spinning sensation is gone.

I feel so much better . . .

Our blackberry bush (which has like 100 berries) is producing more and more ripe berries each week. They’re sour - but good.

We’re getting ripe cherry tomatoes - and we have some green beans to eat too!

Now to wait a bit for those carrots . . .

Y’all see the ads for the Commodore phone? Pretty cool.

The alternative phone market is SPINNING with new ideas - it’s awesome.

If anyone reading this has an “alternative” smartphone - how is it going? hit reply and let me know.

We’re behind two seasons of The Bear so we’re catching up on that now.

Such a good show. I’ll be sad when we wrap up the last episode.

Let’s hop in!

🤖Robot Lawnmowers

Robot vacuums and mops have been around for a LONGGG time now.

Heck there’s a good chance you - the reader - might have one.

I never really thought of them as a “threat matrix” to household chores per se.

Nor do i consider the “lamp that folds clothes” one either.

NOR do i consider any of those “household robots” a threat either. (yet).

However, the robot lawnmower has given me some pause. They have displays for them at Lowe’s now.

My neighbor has one - it does a pretty good job of mowing the lawn. It can’t edge or weedwhack - but it mows several times a week.

Yes - they cost $800 on the lower end, and $2000 on the higher end.

BUT when a self-pushing lawnmower is $300 on the cheaper end - would it be all that bad to . . . have a robot mow the yard?

Especially if one like this $2000 LUBA 3 can mow up to .9 acres.

This bad boy has Lidar AND satellite access.

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If you have a third of an acre or more, you’re probably staring down the barrel of a ride on lawnmower anyway which start around $2000.

Personally, I like mowing the yard. It’s fun, and i don’t have to stare at a computer screen to do it.

But - I only have around a quarter acre. If i had to decide between a riding lawnmower and a robot lawnmower, it might change my mind.

What about weed whacking you say?

The - and yes this is its name - ECOVACS GOAT A3000 LiDAR PRO has a built-in weed whacker on the side.

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Yes, you’d have to do some weed whacking where the robot lawnmower can’t reach, BUT this would get a lot of it.

So - enough nerding out about robot lawnmowers.

It’s not hard to imagine more and more people buying these as the technology improves and they get cheaper.

Your yard will “mow itself” and all you have to do is the other chores.

Mowing the yard is nice in October - but the dead of August when it’s 100 degrees?

Even the most diehard person who loves mowing the lawn might dream a bit of robot lawnmowers.

Residential landscaping services may start feeling the pinch in a decade or two as part of their jobs get outsourced to robots.

Sure, landscapers do a lot more than just “mow the lawn” - mulching, weed whacking, flowers, etc etc, but the mowing portion might start going away.

It’ll be interesting to see what happens.

The robots might just win on this one.

🐙The Land of Random

Into the random corners of the internet we goooo

Skeleton Jazz

the most random unhinged youtube video you’ve seen this month. Also an accurate depiction of how vertigo feels.

Enough

A new “small smart phone” company emerges. Let’s see if they ship. I’m still waiting for this one too.

Toooooools

Ready to lofi your images? The site is also kinda brutalist too which is sick.

Wanna eat dirt?

no seriously. do you want to eat dirt.

Dirty Little Zine

Create your own little 8-page zine and share with friends. It’s a neat little site!!!

Sound Wave Espresso

This sounds epic ngl. Apparently, you can’t really tell a taste difference but it sounds so cool.

Half Life 2 In Your Browser

Yes - and it works too. SO COOL. Browsers are capable of the coolest things these days.

That’s all for this week. See you next time!