This happens constantly. I had tape on it for a while, but even that failed.

Picture above is dramatization without the tape for clarity’s sake, today it poked through the tape and shut itself off, this is how I actually found it:

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Don’t do it, though. Doing it is like quiting the game.

    Sure, you’re not having fun, but do you really want the other side to win? They don’t deserve to win.

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      If they don’t have a 3d printer, a small square of cardboard taped over the switch will also work.

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    2 days ago

    Oh, that’s where the off button is! Excuse me, I’m just a peasant who only has a shovel and broom.

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      isn’t eufy the one that was caught sending videos from their products to their servers unencrypted?

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        All we have is the vacuum. I don’t know about any of their other products.

        The vacuum isn’t intelligent enough to capture video, let alone get online and send it anywhere.

        It does a good job on the floors, though.

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          that’s good, i guess as long as you don’t give it wifi it’s perfectly safe to use

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        It seems well placed. It isn’t really meant to be routinely turned off. The switch is recessed a bit and covered with a clear flexible cover.

        I only turned it off once. It was recently because I didn’t want it to run it’s scheduled task until I could protect the Christmas tree.

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    If you’re not planning on getting a new bot anytime soon you could relocate the spring higher on the trim, or even up above the trim on the drywall (preferably where there’s a stud)

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      I have many of them in similar locations, this is a rental and it was a problem at the previous place.

      But yeah otherwise that’s a good idea, installing an alternative to the spring could also work.

      This will be my last shark ninja product anyway, they’ve done me dirty on other products and they don’t sell spare mechanical parts, only brushes.

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        Next time you tape over it, try this. Cut an old credit card, hotel key card, or something similar to just larger than the switch’s recess. Tape only the top edge to the machine so that the stiff plastic or cardboard covers the switch, but can be lifted up and out of the way when you need to access it. I’ve used a similar trick to protect light switches I wanted to occasionally use, but not accidentally flip along with the other switches in the next gang over.