[rsweeney21]

Love the section "Valetudo is a garden"

"But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You’re on someone else’s property over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the necessary respect. And - most importantly - you need to understand that letting you into this garden is a gift and should be treated as such.

If you don’t like this garden because you don’t like how it’s structured, or you feel like it’s missing something, or maybe I choose the wrong flowers to plant over there that’s fine. It’s just not for you then. You can leave at any time.

There is simply no ground to stand on to demand change to the garden."

[dr_kiszonka]

Here is my favorite.

"Only supported robots are supported

While this may sound incredibly dumb, it unfortunately needs saying nonetheless.

Only supported robots are supported. Unsupported robots are not supported.

If you have an unsupported robot, it is not supported. There is no support for it because it is not supported."

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

You can almost hear the lament of dealing with entitled people in the statement. These are words that originated from having to deal with people who assume that they get free stuff for nothing in return

[m1keil]

While this is crystal clear, what isn't clear is what actual robots are officially supported..

For example, the buying recommendations mentions Roborock S8/S8+, but the supported robots page doesn't mention it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[izacus]

It's very clear:

"Please note that this list is exhaustive. These are the supported robots."

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html

The supported robots are the ones on that list, nothing more. The firmware might work on more of them though.

[m1keil]

I think in that case they might want to make it clear they are recommending unsupported model.

[po]

I was going to comment the same thing... it's a lovely metaphor and you can see it comes from the experience of someone who has been through it before.

Despite being about private property, I still think this bit of text or something like it should be added to the support page of most OSS projects.

[bombcar]

It’s really nice to see a “don’t try to force people to use this” and a “here are reasons not to use this”. Refreshing.