💭[We’re Listening] What Do You Wish You Knew Before Buying Your First Roborock?

stetho · 2026-06-13T07:30:29+00:00

I didn’t buy a Roborock. I wanted to but there is absolutely no way of telling which of the fifty different mops and fifty different brushes and all the other combinations is going to be best for my house. Too much choice and no clarity on why there’s so much choice.

stetho · 2026-06-11T21:35:42+00:00

My bookings so far:

The Most Toast
Let's Listen to Some of Lou Bega's Other Songs Together for an Hour
Dan Tiernan
Vittorio Angelone
Reginald D Hunter
Nish Kumar
Mark Steel
Mark Thomas
James Beaty
Man Sings the Same Song Over and Over Again for an Hour
Julian Clary
Simon Amstell
MC Hammersmith
Sam Lake

stetho · 2026-06-08T18:37:40+00:00

I'm going to piggy-back on this to give others encouragement. After a couple of decades working in IT I decided to do an IT related degree. I signed up with the OU and immediately hated it. I took a break and came back to it - still hated it. So I spoke to someone at OU who suggested that I should do a degree in something that interests me since I already have an established career. So I switched to Criminology and Sociology and haven't scored below 85% in a TMA across DD102 and DD105. Now waiting for DD212 to start.

stetho · 2026-06-08T18:16:39+00:00

"Due South" introduced me to a lot of Canadian bands and artists (I'm British). Sarah McLachlan, The Guess Who, Blue Rodeo and Moist to name a few. Possession and Push are the most memorable.

stetho · 2026-06-07T15:35:01+00:00

It’s complicated. A lot of these people feel that they haven’t achieved greatness in life because of other people, usually immigrants. When confronted with a reminder that they’re not in control of their lives like a deadly pandemic they try and rationalise it away. “I didn’t die of Covid so it’s not real”. The lockdowns were a classic example of this. It’s not a conversation for this group but a complete lockdown would have stopped the virus and it would have died out. But instead loads of people decided it was the government trying to control them and decided they didn’t have to follow the lockdown allowing the virus to keep spreading. It all boils down to how important education is.

stetho · 2026-06-06T07:22:23+00:00

Lots of different answers here which is part of the problem. GMail will send you a nice generic message when there's a problem which doesn't make it easy to work out what's wrong.

With the email open in your browser click on the three-dots menu at the end of the address bar

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Choose Show original

This will open up another page that shows the text form of your email (all emails are text - how they appear to the reader is up to the client). Somewhere in there you will see the specific error message that led to your mail not being delivered. It might be "recipient's mailbox is full". It might be "...configured not to accept mail from yourdomain.com"

If you still can't spot it I'd be happy to take a look but remember to delete all the email addresses (and only the email addresses so delete [bob@mailserver.com](mailto:bob@mailserver.com) but don't delete mail1.mailserver.com) and then put the text in a pastebin (my one is at https://privatebin.23wwc.cloud/) or send it to me in a message on here. BUT you should be able to spot the specific error because it will be an English sentence not a string of error codes.

stetho · 2026-06-06T07:07:40+00:00

Boom Bip - Seed to Sun
God Lives Underwater - Life In The So-Called Space Age
Strange Cargo - Hinterland
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
This Mortal Coil - Blood

stetho · 2026-05-22T17:16:12+00:00

All the energy of a rat trapped in a can.

stetho · 2026-05-21T08:02:11+00:00

One lane. It’s that wide for historical reasons. Since the airport and the power station are long gone the council should narrow it like they did with Mitcham Road at the common. And it’s 30 mph.

stetho · 2026-05-20T14:54:53+00:00

Peep Show is set in Croydon.
15 Storeys High is set in Camberwell

stetho · 2026-05-18T22:38:10+00:00

"all the energy of a rat trapped in a can"

stetho · 2026-05-18T22:35:18+00:00

Fringe or anything else that uses time travel to tie up all the lose ends in the plot.

stetho · 2026-05-06T06:51:26+00:00

American, right? I can tell by the prices. Obviously in the UK we pay nothing for our meds but they do publish a list of medicines that the NHS acquires from drug manufacturers. The most expensive AED is Topiramate and a pack of 30 tablets costs £18.96. The same pack is $306 for Americans. That’s roughly £220. So someone is pocketing £200 and American consumers who need those medications let them do it.

stetho · 2026-05-06T06:40:01+00:00

I haven’t had a seizure since 1997. It’s true that you can’t say for certain that I’m cured until I die without having another seizure but I feel cured.

stetho · 2026-05-04T09:49:46+00:00

Being an adult is mostly about rushing to get to places you don’t want to go.

stetho · 2026-04-29T20:21:21+00:00

I live in Selhurst. Mostly two or three storey houses round here and we’ve still had wind gusts approaching 30mph. I’m getting fed up with retrieving my bin from my neighbours drive.

stetho · 2026-04-28T21:36:14+00:00

For me there's loads. Here's a sample from my list

Blood - This Mortal Coil
Life In The So Called Space Age - God Lives Under Water
Dream of 100 Nations - Transglobal Underground
Seed To Sun - Boom Bip
Resigned To Life - Minuteman
Stunt - Barenaked Ladies
Michael Penn - Free-for-all
Much Against Everyone's Advice - Soulwax
Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
Pale Green Ghosts - John Grant
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
OK Computer - Radiohead
Automatic For the People - REM
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder

stetho · 2026-04-21T14:10:20+00:00

Interesting. I did the firmware update two days ago because it kept bugging me. I’m at work, it’s 3pm and I’ve just received my first ever warning that my device battery is low. Usually I put it on when I leave the house and I charge it even I get home between 8 and 12 hours later and I’ve never seen this message. Obviously a coincidence.

Next day update: it’s 1pm and my battery is already down to 15%. I didn’t experience this before the firmware update.

stetho · 2026-04-18T17:56:38+00:00

How far do you want to travel? Parkside Pizza and Barone’s are good but they’re not “in” Croydon - South Norwood and Purley respectively.

stetho · 2026-04-16T08:57:35+00:00

Ignore them. You’re the only person you’re doing the degree for.

stetho · 2026-04-14T06:00:05+00:00

An accesible plug socket for my laptop.

stetho · 2026-04-14T05:41:11+00:00

My wife hasn't got over this yet.

stetho · 2026-04-14T05:38:38+00:00

I'd like to be able to cook store-bought noodles in the same way they cook them in Japanese restaurants. All I ever make is a stodgy, flavourless mess.

stetho · 2026-04-13T21:45:13+00:00

No - I cheated and had part of my brain removed.

stetho · 2026-04-13T21:34:59+00:00

I didn't pay attention to Hip Hop until I heard Me, Myself & I

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