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minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up363·1 month agoYou can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·1 month agoI propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoThat’s good. I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoSucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agohttps://youtu.be/Ec5f6SrGlzU?is=HGIPPRdTSUJnQUXL
minus-squareFmstrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·1 month ago About the name: “oomwoo” is a rotational ambigram — it reads the same flipped 180°, just like the robot itself roaming your floor in every direction. There was an attempt.
minus-squareMika@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoNow we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 month ago“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions” referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
minus-squareunemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoCan’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up103·1 month agoIt’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoLumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoIf that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYes, it was a latin v
minus-squarefrozen_flaps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agothat one goes on the lawn.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWe gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt holds all the dust in its WOMB!
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 month agoThe name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThat’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.
minus-squarejabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 month agoSomething much better like eufy? Or roomba? I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.
minus-squareunemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool
minus-square5in1K@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoOOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.
minus-squareDymonika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoLike, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…
minus-squareExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoVacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month ago“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoPeople love a good innuendo
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWe’ve done it. Look no further
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoRobot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoIt’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”
You can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
I propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
OpenSuck™
That’s good.
I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
Sucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack
https://youtu.be/Ec5f6SrGlzU?is=HGIPPRdTSUJnQUXL
There was an attempt.
Now we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions”
referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
Can’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
It’s called OOMWOO in all caps dude. My idea is, call it literally anything else. Also I’m getting one
How about WOOOOM
Or vwoomba
UwUmba?
Lumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy
If that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba
Yes, it was a latin v
Why not MOOOOW?
that one goes on the lawn.
We gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass
It holds all the dust in its WOMB!
The name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
That’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.
Something much better like eufy? Or roomba?
I think it’s a law that robot vacuums must be named something silly.
I have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool
OOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.
Like, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…
VacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is
Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”
How about
iSuckTM
🤣
“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
People love a good innuendo
YOURMOMMA
We’ve done it. Look no further
But muh rotational-symmetry.
Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.
It’s like carcinization, all robot vacuum names eventually become “voov”