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The $649 Roborock S7 is totally worth it
Over the last year of working from home through the pandemic, there’s been one constant: The house is eternally messy, and we’re eternally cleaning it. Because we’re home with our two pets all the time, if we aren’t vacuuming and mopping daily, our hard floors get dirty quickly.
I’m a huge fan of robot vacuum cleaners because they make it easier to keep on top of that cleaning when you don’t have time for proper vacuuming. …
Podswap refurbishes dead AirPods in a big win for the environment
AirPods are notoriously difficult to repair. It’s a common problem with minimalist product design: With so many components sealed into a tight, seamless gadget, replacing vital pieces like a battery becomes an outlandishly destructive effort.
In its repair guide for the original AirPods, iFixit found that it’s simply not possible to access internal parts without completely annihilating the outer casing. AirPods earned a rare zero out of 10 on the company’s “repairability” scale.
Now, years after AirPods’ debut, it seems that someone has worked out a solution. Podswap is a new startup that purports to offer a battery replacement program…
In uncertain times, we all want a sense of control
In April 2020, as many businesses were shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Notion was booming.
Although the expansive note-taking app had been around since 2013, the company’s founders and investors apparently understood that the way we work would suddenly see a drastic change as the coronavirus spread across the country. Notion founder and CEO Ivan Zhao raised $50 million, pushing the company’s value to $2 billion.
The gamble on the part of Zhao and his investors was a good one. Notion’s user base has more than quadrupled since 2019. …
Cleaning it may help it run better — and keep you healthy to boot
You might feel lonely if you’ve been working from home this past year with only your partner, your roommates, or your own damn self as company. But you’re not as alone as you may feel. In fact, you have millions of co-workers — and they’re currently milling around the watercooler that is your desk. They are chatting, catching up, and most importantly, breeding.
These co-workers, of course, are bacteria, fungi, and the occasional virus, and they’re mostly harmless. …
Microprocessing
Apps that help you find your way may leave you feeling totally lost in the long run
I had an English teacher in high school who would repeat the same line over and over again: “Life is what you pay attention to.” He’d scribble it furiously across the whiteboard. He’d yell at us to wake up from the pathetic little lives we lived on autopilot and start paying attention. (Sorry to bring up Harry Potter here, but honest to God, in retrospect he reminds me of Mad-Eye Moody: “Constant vigilance!”) I was not entirely clear on the connection between his rabid obsession with paying attention and English-language literature, and his lack of explanation rendered his protests unconvincing…
