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Respectfully, that's the corporate-washed killer app. Intimacy between people in a long distance relationship: that's the killer app.

jamilton 19d ago
That's a niche inside a niche. It's a step up from existing solutions, but not an enormous one.
gravitronic 19d ago
The term for that is teledildonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics
- jjkaczor 19d ago
  ... and the "at least historic" lack of "app/service" security related to this... Uh, the main site appears to be down (and most wouldn't click on the link, given it's name) - but you can read about a project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Haines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Haines
XorNot 19d ago
No it's definitely folding laundry. My intimacy with my partner in a short difference marriage would improved it we could eliminate folding washing from the weekly chores.
- mrguyorama 19d ago
  So, uh, have you tried just not folding laundry? I think it's funny how often "Folding Laundry" is brought up as the critical use case as if that's a labor function that needs to be done in the first place! Some of us already live in the Utopia of not folding laundry! I'm not advocating, but pointing out how silly it is that the supposed linchpin of the end of human labor is a completely voluntary and unnecessary task. I get why it can be a good example, because it's common and "hard" in that computery way that seems like it shouldn't be that hard, and that it's supposed to represent all the other hard problems of housework. But we know what the household robot industry considers "solved" to look like, and I'm not that satisfied with roombas, and knowing that, is $6000 for something that could fold your laundry really that much better a proposition than just being wrinkly sometimes? Downey produces a product that you spray on a clothing item and stretch it and it stops being wrinkly. Totally unnecessary, but way cheaper than $6000.
  - 8note 19d ago
    folding laundry is an exemplary case of a lot of household work which involves carefully collecting items through the house, putting them into a machine to run a cleaning cycle, then putting them away in their right location. folding is a hard middle step in the laundry process, but the job is end to end
  - fhn 19d ago
    how dare you suggest actually doing the work. outrageous!
- failbuffer 19d ago
  Have you tried getting a folding board or folding table? Helps accelerate the process and produces neater results. I love mine!
8note 19d ago
probably not quite. intimacy over onlyfans with a guy in india pretending to be the woman is the proper killer app.
fhn 19d ago
take "people" out of that equation would be even better

jamilton 19d ago

That's a niche inside a niche. It's a step up from existing solutions, but not an enormous one.

gravitronic 19d ago

The term for that is teledildonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

jjkaczor 19d ago
... and the "at least historic" lack of "app/service" security related to this... Uh, the main site appears to be down (and most wouldn't click on the link, given it's name) - but you can read about a project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Haines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Haines

XorNot 19d ago

No it's definitely folding laundry. My intimacy with my partner in a short difference marriage would improved it we could eliminate folding washing from the weekly chores.

mrguyorama 19d ago
So, uh, have you tried just not folding laundry? I think it's funny how often "Folding Laundry" is brought up as the critical use case as if that's a labor function that needs to be done in the first place! Some of us already live in the Utopia of not folding laundry! I'm not advocating, but pointing out how silly it is that the supposed linchpin of the end of human labor is a completely voluntary and unnecessary task. I get why it can be a good example, because it's common and "hard" in that computery way that seems like it shouldn't be that hard, and that it's supposed to represent all the other hard problems of housework. But we know what the household robot industry considers "solved" to look like, and I'm not that satisfied with roombas, and knowing that, is $6000 for something that could fold your laundry really that much better a proposition than just being wrinkly sometimes? Downey produces a product that you spray on a clothing item and stretch it and it stops being wrinkly. Totally unnecessary, but way cheaper than $6000.
- 8note 19d ago
  folding laundry is an exemplary case of a lot of household work which involves carefully collecting items through the house, putting them into a machine to run a cleaning cycle, then putting them away in their right location. folding is a hard middle step in the laundry process, but the job is end to end
- fhn 19d ago
  how dare you suggest actually doing the work. outrageous!
failbuffer 19d ago
Have you tried getting a folding board or folding table? Helps accelerate the process and produces neater results. I love mine!

8note 19d ago

probably not quite. intimacy over onlyfans with a guy in india pretending to be the woman is the proper killer app.

fhn 19d ago

take "people" out of that equation would be even better