• @mj_marathon@programming.dev
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    918 days ago

    This makes zero sense. If it’s clogged, you’d know beforehand when you look in the bowl. Why the would anyone need a notification for that?

    The ONLY utility that I could see here is if the notification logged who did the clogging so you could give them shit.

    • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      618 days ago

      Toilets can appear to have flushed fully, but still have…material…stuck in the U-bend that hasn’t completely evacuated the toilet. A subsequent flush won’t work, even though the water in the bowl is clean.

      Ask me how I know.

      That said, this could almost certainly be better-solved in other ways. Maybe by preventing the tank from refilling if there’s still something in the u-bend (then you’d know it needed attention because there’d be no water in it)?

        • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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          117 days ago

          Oh, absolutely. I was responding only to “If it’s clogged, you’d know beforehand when you look in the bowl.”

          An app for a toilet is a stupid idea, full stop.

      • @mj_marathon@programming.dev
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        218 days ago
        1. We don’t know that the toilet has this sensing capability.
        2. If it does, the actual fix is the same as if it were a regular toilet.

        This just isn’t an issue that needs technology as a solution.

        • @ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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          217 days ago

          125% agreed. I was responding only to “If it’s clogged, you’d know beforehand when you look in the bowl.” I think there’s potentially an engineering solution–a fluid dynamics engineering solution–but definitely not an app.