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How to Root a Robot Vacuum

I wanted to root my vacuum. I wanted to put Ubuntu Linux on my vacuum. To do that, you use something called a Valitudo. Now Valitudo is an open source firmware that you flash onto your robot vacuum. And this thing uses the robot's Wi-Fi access point to basically pretend to be the Xiaomi servers. You then flash the Valitudo firmware onto it. This is all done over the air. You don't have to plug any cables in. All the documentation is on their website. Within a few minutes, you'll have Ubuntu on your network. You can SSH into your vacuum if you want to. That's great. But one of the really super

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