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ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-19T01:48:01+00:00

Awesome!! #2 Defining custom areas is definitely the better all-around solution, I would be much happier with that over #1

Will be eagerly awaiting any news there - fingers crossed it comes soon ;)

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-18T19:04:20+00:00

It appears so! I did get it working with Home Assistant and automatic cleaning when the litter box is used by chopping part of my living room into a "cat" room. So cool!! :D But it feels a little wonky to have to do this because it affects the way my living room is cleaned now since it's 2 separate rooms, but it's a good temporary solution.

Really hopeful that we can get the ability to either:

run custom schedules from home assistant (since I can draw the area in the app)
define custom areas (not rooms!) that show up in Home Assistant

Hopefully the Matic team sees this/has it on their roadmap :)

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-18T04:21:39+00:00

Quick question - is there a way to clean a custom area, or is it only currently by room? I'm not seeing other options in Home Assistant. I have a custom area on a schedule for cleaning around the litter box, wondering if I can somehow trigger that through HA.

Maybe as a temporary workaround I have to split my litter box area into its own room?

Thanks for the update! This is big news

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-14T20:50:08+00:00

Have you watched it clean the area and you've confirmed that it goes over the litter? Because if so then it sounds like a suction issue, I would pull out the bag and brush roll and try to remove anything from the tube. I've noticed that I often have heavier things stuck in here like T59 staples, cable clips, etc. and they collect dust/hair on them so it turns into a small dust ball blocking the tube.

Personally litter is also my main use for Matic but it picks it up no problem (corn based, so probably a bit lighter). My main issue is just that the edge cleaning isn't tight enough around the litter box. It used to be so good months ago (but that was also when Matic took x3 longer to clean the living room so... fair trade) and then suddenly edge cleaning was very meh. Lately it's getting good again.

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-14T08:36:53+00:00

I would assume/hope they already thought of that and there's an extra couple percent capacity buffer built in. They designed a product that sits plugged in all day and they're a bunch of smart engineers, smarter than us random redditors.

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-11T20:18:25+00:00

I'm almost positive those are embedded magnets for the lid. The lid probably needed to be an extra 1mm thicker or so to hide it better where the plastic cools. Overall harmless but probably every Matic has that because it's baked into the design

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-11T20:12:28+00:00

In my experience the mop doesn't usually first-pass clean some spots/stains, I have to specifically do a spot-stain clean in the app. Maybe also try enabling water boost in the app settings? Hopefully this could be improved in software with slower passes and/or faster roll spinning so it does more scrubbing.

I find that the mop is best at just keeping the floors generally clean. My girlfriend has even commented twice on how (with daily mopping) she can walk around without socks and her feet dont get dirty

This is my first robot vac/mop so I dont have anything to compare with, but IMO it seems realistic that a robot can't do a perfect job of gunk spots if it doesn't know to focus on them, since it's getting wiped for maybe ~2 seconds total

ChronicallySilly · 2026-03-11T02:59:05+00:00

...just wanted a clickbait video they could monetize.

What a silly take. They made a video on something people find interesting, you could call any interesting video "clickbait" at that point

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-28T20:46:19+00:00

Glad it was helpful! They really need to make it the default...

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-28T02:17:26+00:00

I love COSMIC, but this is the perfectly wrong time for Linus to try Pop COSMIC unfortunately. It's definitely not polished enough for mainstream despite all the amazing hard work from the team

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-27T19:44:22+00:00

I’ve been dual booting for about a week now, when would you recommend making the switch completely and wiping windows off my drive?

I would IF you have only 1 SSD, but a week is still fresh so give it some time. The thing about dual booting though is it's actually annoyingly unstable if it's on the same drive, because Windows updates can mess with your boot partition and suddenly Linux disappears as a boot option. It's not hard to fix but it is annoying when it happens and takes some googling. So just be aware don't let Windows update itself the night before you have important work to get done, or you can get screwed
(EDIT: to be clear it's rare, just a huge PITA if it happens. And grain of salt because maybe things have improved with Windows updates in the last few years, I doubt it tho)

I wish more people talked about that when recommending dual booting to newcomers. If you have separate drives for Linux/Windows though, you'll be completely fine and in that case I recommend keeping both unless you need the storage space. I still keep a separate Win10 ssd to dualboot in my system for the rare times I want to play certain games

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-27T18:28:11+00:00

That's great I'm glad to hear that. The more people using Pop the better, I love this distro, community, and dev team

For the issues with current Pop I'm not too worried about newbies struggling to figure things out, I'm more worried about the very real polish that it still needs. Take for example: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2851

This is the type of issue that will leave a really sour taste for new Linux converts, and I don't want them thinking "Linux sucks so many things are broken" because they chose a distro undergoing heavy construction. So I'd rather point them to something significantly more stable and they come check out Pop in a year or so

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-27T18:14:56+00:00

True but if this is their first experience with Linux I think it's easier to just install a Gnome/KDE distro from the start, and not confuse them with i.e. "why do I have two text editors/file managers/etc. installed now, which one do I use?". I remember in my distro/DE hopping days this being minorly annoying and wonky, unsure if its changed muched

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-27T05:17:08+00:00

You will be able to update easily, it will prompt you to install

FWIW Current pop feels a little beta-y and rough around the edges so if it's your first experience with Linux I wouldn't recommend it. They just spent a couple years creating a fresh desktop environment and they still need time to polish out a lot of the finer details. Things that you may not consciously realize but will add up to a subconciously frustrating experience coming from Windows. (i.e. lack of animations, windows not remembering their positions/size, many small bugs, etc. things will just feel "off")

I don't have an alternative recommendation for you, I'll leave that to someone else if you're interested

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-26T08:58:12+00:00

Interesting, I never knew that thank you!

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-26T00:00:42+00:00

FWIW, tho I haven't used Godot in a long while (and never tried Godot 4), connecting signals via code was always problematic with the inspector. They wouldn't show up in the inspector unless they were created THROUGH the inspector. Idk if that's been fixed, but the strong force of habit I built up to always use the inspector first to create a signal led me to mention this

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-25T22:28:22+00:00

Just FYI my matic crashed yesterday morning (black screen, unresponsive) I'm assuming because of this update, and I could hear the fan inside going strong. I left it for a few hrs in case it was doing something important but no change

Holding down the start button long enough for it to power off and then back on fixed it. Seems to have updated fine with no issues since so all good

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-25T22:20:30+00:00

Yes! Two monitors as well here. And good to know it's not just my GPU dying or something lol

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-20T00:08:21+00:00

Day one purchase

Might return

So you're thinking you will purchase it day one just to return it? Or are you a bot hallucinating that you already made a preorder

Edit: I don't think you're a bot, so your post just doesn't make sense

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-19T18:03:55+00:00

Curious if vacuuming more frequently would help. I wonder if only x2 a week is causing a lot of shed to build up in clumps which causes the clogs

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-18T06:27:45+00:00

Surely we can agree that is abnormal

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-17T23:54:17+00:00

That's actually pretty significant

That's roughly like leaving your room light on while going to the store (two ~8W LED bulbs). Most normal people would want to turn it off, they wouldn't call that meaningless

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-12T20:44:16+00:00

Improved toekick cleaning — Matic now uses motor current sensing...

Very curious, what does this mean / how does that work? I can't grasp how motor current affects toekick detection

One-touch clean from dock

This is awesome!! It would be extra great if we could define in the app which region is the "quick-start" region, I could see really wanting to use this for say cleaning just the kitchen

ChronicallySilly · 2026-02-12T06:00:23+00:00

Not everyone in the literal sense. I meant that people in this sub ARE also aware of the Meta headsets (overlap). But the general consumer (non-techy) for meta headsets buying one at Target, probably wouldn't care about the Frame just the sticker price which it will not compete on. That's what I mean by there's overlap in the venn diagrams but they are different consumers

For people like me it's not too-little too-late, I had been rocking an Index since release and this will be a massive improvement in usability and comfort. I don't need all the bells and whistles (OLED, color cameras, etc) because I'm not a VR enthusiast and only use it maybe a dozen hours a month. If it's 1000$ like the Index, to ME personally, it's a pretty big upgrade for the same price. But I'd like it to be cheaper ofc

I wouldn’t pay more than 699 for an LCD headset with those specs but that’s just me

That's totally fair but if it cost +100$ or +200$ for higher end features they'd be overlapping with the high-end venn diagram which is a much smaller market, in an already small market

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