Using a solar powered machine to cut grass grown from solar power, I feel we could save 2 jobs by turning off the solar :P
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
89 points (100.0% liked)
Dullsters
1613 readers
6 users here now
Inspired by the Dull Men’s Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of “discuss” rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This isn't an advice forum
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with “So” - starting a post with pointless phrases, like “I hope this is allowed” or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Was that a wish I heard?
Literally stealing the life source of the grass to give it conformist haircut! For shame!
Now you just need to automate it. Not with AI, never would trust that, but mapping out like some robot vacuums do to know where they've been. Or maybe sensors to detect where the edge is by grass height, much like us humans would mow.
The issue is having an almost perfect yard to do this in. Flat, no major obstacles, no debris. It's why I never automated my vacuum with pets in the house... if you know, you know.
I have a kind of strange property. Me and my parents live next door to each other (this corner of this city block has been in my family for nearly a century) and we've got a bunch of relatively small areas of grass. It would be nice to automate at least some of it, but robotic mowers either require burying a wire around the perimeter of the area they're allowed in and have very dumb algorithms that make them somewhat inefficient, or they're smarter but require satellite uplinks and proprietary services.
So I do still do it by hand.
It's completely possible to automate grass cutting over nearly every terrain. It's called grazing. A few sheep or goats are happy to do all the work. And they don't AI or even need to be programmed or need an internet connection.
There are open projects on YouTube. It's not trivial. Just getting high quality rtk working is a lot of time and money.