How I got locked out of my appartment
-
So just a little over a week ago, I bought one of them robotic vacuum cleaners to do most of the vacuuming while I am away at work. I live in a ground floor appartment, except for the bathroom & toilet, which have a slightly raised floor. So the robot is able to get anywhere in the appartment to do its job.
Yesterday though, the thing decided that it needed to get stuck exactly at a point where it got lodged between a radiator pipe & my front door. Completely blocking me out of my appartment.
The only immediate alternative entrance I had would be my balcony door, which I could access because it is connected to my neighbour's balcony. The thing is, when I am out of the house, that door is locked tight, so that was a no-go.
The first thing I tried was, with the help of my brother, remove a window from it's frame (the hinges were on the outside) so I could climb inside and dislodge the robot. Sadly this didn't work.
Thankfully, the screwdriver that we used to try to unhinge the window was able to dislodge the robot itself through the small crease that we got from partially opening the door, so I had that going for me.I'm telling you all, Skynet is coming.
-
The robot manufacturer company will be confused when they analyze that movement pattern, before they sell it to advertisers.
-
Thankfully it´s not connected to WiFi.
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
remove a window from it's frame (the hinges were on the outside)
-
@raceprouk Please note that this is an appartment complex with a single entrance, so you don´t actually easily get to access mah windows. Also, I live on the 2nd floor. ;)
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Also, I live on the 2nd floor
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I live in a ground floor appartment
-
@raceprouk Apparently google translate failed me there, I meant to say the appartment is completely leveled, with no door frames to block the robot from going into a different room.
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Thankfully it´s not connected to WiFi.
There's your problem! If you'd been able to connect to it, you could've remoted in to initiate self-destruct.
-
@gleemonk what about getting it to commit suicide in a pool?
-
@arantor I'd have to have a pool in order to make that work :o
Or is that some kind of reference that I'm not getting? Much more likely
-
@arantor there's an app for that?
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
some kind of reference that I'm not getting
That. But it was all so last week…
-
@dkf I should have known, I've seen that article.
-
A small correction if I may:
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I meant to say the appartment is completely level
edThe original version makes it sounds like a robot vacuum stuck behind the door is the least of the apartment's problem :D
level
verb
To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.The hurricane leveled the forest.
-
@deadfast It would make for an awesome story though:
"Vacuum robot completely levels appartment block."
-
I don't trust my Roomba to run when no one is around. It's always finding crap to knock over or sucking up electrical cords (like a laptop power cord that someone left lying around) or shoe laces or...good lord, so much crap. But then, it sounds like you live alone, so I guess it's easier to keep stuff tidy.
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Apparently google translate failed me there,
that does seem to be one of the prime directives of Google Translate.
:-)
Also welcome! We're all crazy here, but most of us are harmless in our insanity so that's okay.
-
@accalia Oh, I've posted before, and I've been following the community once in a while. So I know what I'm getting myself into :D
-
@thame90 did you get along with your weird coworker?
-
@wharrgarbl We are doing better, although he still has fits that get under my nerve.
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@wharrgarbl We are doing better, although he still has fits that get under my nerve.
That almost makes it sound like we are doing some kind of counceling together.
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
the appartment is completely leveled
An a vacuum could fix it???
-
@thecpuwizard Bear with me, English is not my native language. :(
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thecpuwizard Bear with me, English is not my native language. :(
All meant in good fun :) :) Rest assured your English is much better than my flailing attempts to speak/read/write any other (human) language....
The image of a "leveled apartment" (in the sense of the picture above) and an automated vacuum was just too much for me to resist....
-
@thecpuwizard said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
The image of a "leveled apartment" (in the sense of the picture above) and an automated vacuum was just too much for me to resist....
Could happen...with a vacuum train.
-
@boomzilla Elon Musk is apparently a big fan of those...
-
@accalia said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Apparently google translate failed me there,
that does seem to be one of the prime directives of Google Translate.
-
-
@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
or...good lord, so much crap.
The internet of shit thread is
-
@hungrier said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
or...good lord, so much crap.
Moral of the story: Litter-train your dog.
-
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I don't trust my Roomba to run when no one is around. It's always finding crap to knock over or sucking up electrical cords (like a laptop power cord that someone left lying around) or shoe laces or...good lord, so much crap. But then, it sounds like you live alone, so I guess it's easier to keep stuff tidy.
Yeah, I only run mine manually when I'm there, because the little wench likes to run itself up underneath the recliner chair I've got that has one of those round-metal bases and it beaches itself to the point it can't get back out.
-
@e4tmyl33t It's gotten stuck between the legs and casters of my office chair.
-
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I don't trust my Roomba to run when no one is around. It's always finding crap to knock over or sucking up electrical cords (like a laptop power cord that someone left lying around) or shoe laces or...good lord, so much crap. But then, it sounds like you live alone, so I guess it's easier to keep stuff tidy.
If you want something that will knock stuff down for no reason and chew on cables, just get a cat.
-
Apropos of nothing, we're trying to train our office robot to say “Exterminate!” while shining its laser. Alas, at the moment its controlling neural network prefers to hide under a desk and act like it is getting randy with the network cable ducting…
-
@thecpuwizard said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
An a vacuum could fix it???
Give it time. Until it develops an internal black hole, it has to empty itself somewhere...
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@boomzilla Elon Musk is apparently a big fan of those...
You've just made a power
fulless enemy...
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Please note that this is an appartment complex with a single entrance, so you don´t actually easily get to access mah windows. Also, I live on the 2nd floor.
You live in a 2nd floor ground floor apartment?
Are you sure you don't really live here:
-
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I don't trust my Roomba to run when no one is around.
Ditto. Once it found some nice cat vomit to pick up and spread all over. Took me hours to clean that shit up. Probably enough hours to undo every bit of time-saving the robot provided to that point.
-
@blakeyrat I wouldn't mind living there. It'd probably be more interesting than the world we have today.
As for my living situation: my appartment complex has a common entrance/exit on the ground floor, and we get to our appartments from an open-air walkway on our respective floors. Mine happens to be on the 2nd floor.
-
@ben_lubar said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
If you want something that will knock stuff down for no reason and chew on cables, just get a cat.
You should of known the cat wanted to be there and that stuff was in its way. It is your own fault really.
-
@boomzilla said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
I don't trust my Roomba to run when no one is around. It's always finding crap to knock over or sucking up electrical cords (like a laptop power cord that someone left lying around) or shoe laces or...good lord, so much crap. But then, it sounds like you live alone, so I guess it's easier to keep stuff tidy.
Our roomba eating stuff is the threat we use to make our daughter clean her toys off the floor daily.
-
This again convinces me that my approach to keeping my apartment clean without lifting a finger is far superior.
-
@ben_lubar said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
chew on cables
That's fine, as long as the plug has a fuse.
-
@lolwhat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
@ben_lubar said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
chew on cables
That's fine, as long as the plug has a fuse.
That is all dependent on how you feel about cats.
-
@blakeyrat said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
cat vomit to pick up and spread all over. Took me hours to clean that shit up.
Understandable that you didn’t want to look too closely to figure out which end of the cat it came from.
-
@thame90 said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
Mine happens to be on the 2nd floor.
American 2nd floor or English 2nd floor?
-
@gurth Surely programmers think zero-based everywhere?
-
@pleegwat Not VB programmers
-
@pleegwat
It works right up until your approach decides she wants to move out and take half your stuff with her
-
@izzion said in How I got locked out of my appartment:
take half your stuff with her
The place will look even cleaner