The Covered List Ate Your Roomba

Part five of a series. Part one. Part two. Part three. Part four. Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series.TL;DR: The FCC's Covered List just got significantly larger. On July 28th it swallowed robot vacuums, robot lawnmowers, and power inverters in the same announcement. The router queue meanwhile has more than a dozen approvals and TP-Link still has zero. ASUS, Google, Linksys, D-Link, Belkin — also still zero. The mechanism that started with a router ban is now eating your living room floor and your solar panels. Same playbook. Faster pace.While I was replacing NixOS2's failing hardware, covering Evil vs. Evil, Nvidia, Apple, and more — the FCC kept busy.We need to talk about your robot vacuum.On July 28th, the FCC added "foreign-produced advanced robotic devices" to the Covered List. Same mechanism as the router ban. Same no-vote, no-public-debate process. Same "national security determination from an interagency body" with no elaboration. New models can no longer receive FCC…