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>In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range of smart home actions, including third-party gadgets. For example, people could set their Pop buttons to launch Philips Hue or Insteon lighting presets, play a playlist from their Sonos speaker, or control Lutron smart blinds. Each button could store three actions, worked by identifying smart home devices on a shared Wi-Fi network, and was controllable via a dedicated Android or iOS app. The Pop Home Switch Starter Pack launched at $100, and individual Pop Add-on Home Switches debuted at $40 each. A company spokesperson told Ars Technica that Logitech informed customers on September 29 that their Pop switches would soon become e-waste. According to copies of the email shared via Reddit, Logitech’s notice said:

Archive: https://archive.today/eVI3f From the post: >>In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range of smart home actions, including third-party gadgets. For example, people could set their Pop buttons to launch Philips Hue or Insteon lighting presets, play a playlist from their Sonos speaker, or control Lutron smart blinds. Each button could store three actions, worked by identifying smart home devices on a shared Wi-Fi network, and was controllable via a dedicated Android or iOS app. The Pop Home Switch Starter Pack launched at $100, and individual Pop Add-on Home Switches debuted at $40 each. A company spokesperson told Ars Technica that Logitech informed customers on September 29 that their Pop switches would soon become e-waste. According to copies of the email shared via Reddit, Logitech’s notice said:

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I never thought about that honestly. Just buy the shit that I can tolerate the smell. The laundry slave seems to be using borax power now, so there is that, and its likely not shit since the formula is said to be the same. Guess yeah, they dont have a smell like before, its just "clean" smell,

I do wish I had the one that has the reservoir, but then that won't work with the powder like the laundry slave moved to.

These machines are over 13 years old and keep working, I have replaced a door seal (not because it leaked but because it stained and looked like shit, and 2 water valves. )It has cost like $38 in water valves for both, and maybe 55 for that door seal.

Unless you get a Speed Queen, I don't see you would get this life out of any new machine. And never by a lucky goldstar or scamsung.

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Borax isn't really a cleaner, it's a water softener. But really...there's probably enough soap residue in your machine to last for quite a while.

Every so often, I'll run mine on the "baby wear" cycle. Put all the whites (towels, kitchen dishcloth, etc.) in, fill all the trays with bleach, and run. No detergent.

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TIL, laundry slave said, she uses arm and hammer laundry soap. Why am I paying for a water softener is what I am thinking. I know why.

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Borax does tend to help if you have hard water - I use it as well.

But if your water is decent, then it's not doing much.