 Speaking of products that we didn't know we needed until we had them Ari writes in And says I know you stay pretty up to date on the automatic slash robot vacuums Which one is your current favorite? okay, uh I have a couple of favorites here. So I've tested The yufis from anchor the nido and the roborock. I've tested some others too, but those those are kind of the ones Currently my my favorites Are the the roborock and the nido they just seem to do I haven't tested the very latest from yufi. So Like bear that in mind and I probably will and then maybe I'll I'll add that in back to the favorites list here But you know the the roborock the roborock is if I had to then pick between the roborock and the nido I'd probably lean for the roborock, but I like They're both really really close Right now I'm running the roborock q5 And I think it's the q5 plus because it has the auto emptier thing which I'll talk about And then the nido d10 Which does not have the auto emptier and I wouldn't say you need the auto empty functionality. I I believe that was created for people who said Well, what's the if what's the use of having a robot vacuum if I have to empty it all the time? well, the reality is You we run ours every day It runs in the middle of the night except for the one in our bedrooms Which runs while we're having dinner on a different floor of the house But you know, we run them every day and I find that if I empty it once a week, that's fine It's you know, it packs the stuff into its little container. And so that's totally fine and at least once a week the vacuum is going to Pick up something like a cat toy or pipe cleaner, which in our house are also cat toys and You need to mess with it or it gets stuck in a corner that it shouldn't get stuck in or you know, whatever And so you got to pick it up and put it grab shoe lakes is like their stone tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, exactly, right, you know Or backpack Like the straps from a backpack or whatever like those kinds of things and it's no big deal But you pick it up and you're going to put it back on its base And while i'm doing that even the one that empties itself I will empty the the container because why do I want the other thing to fill up any faster than it needs to I've got the stupid vacuum in my hand and it's really not that stupid. It's quite smart But I've got it in my hand I dump it out and I also take that moment usually a couple times a month to take either there They all come with these like specially formed Like little knives to cut all the hair that's going to wrap around the roller So I'll be like, oh, there's a ton of hair Pet hair or human hair or whatever it is, you know on the roller I'll clean that off while i'm at it, you know, and then I put it back on its base It charges and it's good to go for the next the next round But the the feature that really is the game changer and I've had vacuums before and after this is lidar navigation This is I will not use a robot vacuum without lidar navigation now It changes everything about how these things can work and navigate your home And not run into stupid things But that's creating a map of your home and sending it to china It sure is. Yep. And if the chinese Want to map your home If some bad actor in china wants to bother to get on a plane or even just ship the map of my home To someone here in the united states You can get a map of my home by going to my town's website for free Like the floor plan is right there. Yep So it really isn't a problem And it it I love it like it but it the lidar mapping is so much more than just having the map of your home But that in and of itself is fantastic because you can say oh clean this room. Don't clean this room Like on the spot. Yeah, you can put up invisible walls. Correct. No go zones It yeah, you could the no go zones But it also is seeing things and so like all those stories and somebody's putting something in the discord about You know like a vacuum with dog poop, you know driving it around the house or whatever That yeah, that happens far far far less often With these lidar scanners because they put pattern recognition into them and so they notice. Oh, don't go there, you know Well, I have a story about that. Oh, is it with a lidar vacuum video? May see over my left shoulder. Yeah, my little girl who's little 50 pounds. Sure. It's gonna be 15 next month and and last month she got left alone for many hours while we went to a funeral And uh came home to uh, yeah, it did the robo rock. I think it's the Six or the seven. Okay. It has lidar and uh, it apparently it didn't recognize Oh, that sucks. Now the good news is is we had taken up all the carpets. We are down to the barewood floors And so much easier to clean up that's way easier to clean the vacuum But uh, boy was that frustrating to see like oh man. I thought it was supposed to avoid that I did too. Yeah Well, there you go. But yeah, I these are these are game changing things. I I have not yet tried A robot vacuum with mopping capabilities, right? Like I think the eight plus has that and I've got one I'm gonna break it out of the box. Okay, and I'll I'll be ready to jump in on the next Okay, great. Yeah, because I I'd be curious to see, you know for like a kitchen area Obviously that that could also be kind of a game changer. So um, yeah But but I you know I there are lots of good ones out there We've mentioned three brands My guess is that the ufis with the lidar and all of that stuff are equally as good as the others I just haven't had an opportunity to test those yet, but um, and if you've got pet hair in your house Man, it's so much so much easier to stay in front of it when it's done every day Yep You know, you just aren't gonna pray that guy out the vacuum cleaner every day and do the entire house No way, no way and it's it's really nice if you're gonna have people over or whatever we can say, all right You know, we just tell it, you know from our watch or our phone go vacuum the living room quick and in 20 minutes It's done But you like your involvement in that was to tell it go vacuum the living room quick And then it just goes and does its thing. It's really nice waking up every morning to a freshly vacuumed house