Dude either you say something else than you mean or you should do a little history research before posting.
Yes the mega Corp Internet as of today did not exist, but people had forums, blogs and many people had their own website, where they would post stuff to.
Navigating was kinda rough but you had ways to talk to people and stuff.
And I somehow just don't like how you talk so from above about the old internet. It was different, not worse.
You can't do shit on those roombas without a connection to the manufacturers servers.
On and off is the most you can do.
In order to make them work again once the servers are down, you need to spoof the dns to a local server that you then need to reverse engineer from the api.
If you are lucky the thing has home assistant integration because some awesome people already did exactly that or the manufacturer was kind enough to give access to the bot api
Dns is annoying ti find as a bug on my home system. The ip changes every few days. So until then it works.
I have a dns updater but updating it without checking the notes, like I do usually, resulted in breaking the current configuration. And I had to figure out how to configure it again.
Even worse the silent invalidation of a correct password.
Use password manager.
Can't log in, because "password is incorrect"...
Fuck you! It is not! I copied in the same fucking thing as months before! If you want to force me to change it then say it! Asshole!
Dude either you say something else than you mean or you should do a little history research before posting.
Yes the mega Corp Internet as of today did not exist, but people had forums, blogs and many people had their own website, where they would post stuff to.
Navigating was kinda rough but you had ways to talk to people and stuff.
And I somehow just don't like how you talk so from above about the old internet. It was different, not worse.