IMEI can’t be read by apps since quite a few versions of Android ago (10, to be specific)

Google is not about to sell this data to anyone, the data is the money maker. They sell ads that are targeted based on the data - if they sell the data, they automatically lose their edge.

Well, you don’t necessarily need to deal with the laundry the second the machine is ready - if you merely set the alarm to be the approximate maximum time, you’re probably going to be fine with the laundry spending half an hour or so sitting wet in the machine.

If the alarm is easy to dismiss, then perhaps a reminder app could be of use. I frequently use Google Tasks with a time for the tasks to cope with everyday life, which sends a notification at the specified time.

An alarm could likely help you accomplish the same thing without the wifi-connected washing machine.

Whatever works for you works for you, though.

Looks like they report ARPU on a quarterly basis, yes.

Meta makes their ARPU readily available to the public, so you really don’t have to guess in this regard: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average-revenue-per-user-by-region/

Last quarter posted there, it was $19.04 for European users, or €17.84 with today’s exchange rate.

Wow, that’s wild that I’ve managed to miss that.

Was it possible to run it sans-camera permission back then as well?

Thanks for letting me know about it, anyhow.

That must be a pretty new API, right?

What a robot vacuum affords you is zero-effort cleaning, meaning that you can practically just have it run every day. Which I do. Our home was far dustier before, when vacuuming was an effortful activity.