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1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 16:33:13 EST kaniini

   In other news, my newest project to provide cuddly plush AI assistants that don't rat you out (instead of pop can-shaped bluetooth speakers with cloud-based spyware in them), may have a better solution to the charging problem than "just stick a USB cable up it's butt" with this Qi charging concept.

   Need to do more testing though.

   1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 16:39:12 EST kaniini

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      This is good, because our evaluation of the "just stick a USB cable up it's butt" approach didn't test well.

      Specifically, there were concerns about durability, as well as televangelists and other types of negative public response (after all, you would be plugging a USB cable into a stuffed animal's butt).

      So really this Qi charging thing looks a lot better really.

      1. kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 16:42:14 EST kaniini

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         I mean it just doesn't seem like something most people would want to do.

         Like it seriously seems out of the comfort area of most people.

         So hopefully the Qi charging thing works out, because otherwise we have to figure out something else that isn't "shove a USB cable up the stuffed animal's butt."

         Product design is hard, damnit!