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minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up361arrow-down7·2 months agoYou can tell it’s a genuine high-quality open-source project because the name sucks
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·2 months agoI propose renaming it to SUCKS cos that’s what vacuums do.
minus-square🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@hilariouschaos.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoThat’s good. I was thinking we could come up with an acronym resulting in suck
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoSucky Unsupervised Cleaning Knickknack
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agohttps://youtu.be/Ec5f6SrGlzU?is=HGIPPRdTSUJnQUXL
minus-squareFmstrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·2 months 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-up7·2 months agoNow we need to invent a recursive acronym for this name and it would be perfect
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months ago“Open OOMWOO Might Win Over Obstructions” referring to the fact that these things often end up crashing into everything
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”
minus-squareunemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down51·2 months agoCan’t wait to hear your marketing ideas
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up102arrow-down3·2 months 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-up1·2 months agoLumisal beat you to it, sorry buddy
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoIf that way the case, in keeping with open source tradition, it should be the Uwumba
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYes, it was a latin v
minus-squarefrozen_flaps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agothat one goes on the lawn.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWe gotta reserve this for a future sibling that cut the grass
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIt holds all the dust in its WOMB!
minus-squareelucubra@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoThe name apparently is a rotational ambigram. I would have sworn it was a transdimensional mammogram
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThat’s actually pretty cool once you know about it.
minus-squarejabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months 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-up5·2 months agoI have no objections. If it doesn’t connect to the wider internet, could be cool
minus-square5in1K@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoOOMWOO just sounds like a fake AliExpress brand.
minus-squareDymonika@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·2 months agoLike, even just SelfVac or whatever would be good…
minus-squareExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoVacBot, HoovrBot AutoVac, AutoHoovr…there’s just so many options for names that describe what it is
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months ago“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoPeople love a good innuendo
minus-squarecatsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoWe’ve done it. Look no further
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
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”
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
How about
iSuckTM
🤣
Ooh, I really like “AutoVac!”
“I’ve been SelfVack’n it all day long.”
People love a good innuendo
YOURMOMMA
We’ve done it. Look no further