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Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by mrheosuper »

charcircuit wrote: post #21
mrheosuper wrote: post #20

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a rechargeable battery with only 1 charge cycle is considered "waste" ?

Embedded within a disposable vape, yes. Plenty of things that are reusable are waste. When someone finishes milk jug, most people throw it away and buy a new one instead of going to get it refilled. Pretty much everything thrown away could be used for something else.

The plastic that holds the milk is not designed to be reuseable, and plastic wear down is a thing.

But the battery inside disposable vape is designed to be rechargeable.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by subscribed »

BogdanTheGeek wrote: post #2

And... its down already. It can only handle about 10 requests at a time, so take turns guys :) Here is the same article but with hopefully better uptime: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it

Really neat achievement, it'd stand out on your CV, make sure to always add it there, it'll spark a fun chat on interviews.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by msephton »

BogdanTheGeek wrote: post #2

And... its down already. It can only handle about 10 requests at a time, so take turns guys :) Here is the same article but with hopefully better uptime: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

Thanks for mirroring, and well done! I really enjoyed the topic and tone of your writing.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by uyzstvqs »

subscribed wrote: post #32
BogdanTheGeek wrote: post #2

And... its down already. It can only handle about 10 requests at a time, so take turns guys :) Here is the same article but with hopefully better uptime: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it Really neat achievement, it'd stand out on your CV, make sure to always add it there, it'll spark a fun chat on interviews.

> It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it

That's no fun. The right answer is to distribute load across a cluster of 100 repurposed disposable vapes.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by Liftyee »

charcircuit wrote: post #23
tgwil wrote: post #22

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That doesn't mean it's waste, that just means people are lazy and don't care about wasting things. It's only "waste" because people make it waste. If you don't waste it it's not waste.

It's not just laziness. It may not be financially worth it to do including the personal labor you have to do compared to throwing something in a trash can.

Not everything in life needs to be financially worth it... If repurposing otherwise "disposable" resources brings them enjoyment and it's a reasonable time spent, why shouldn't they?

Ultimately, it's not your storage space being used for this. Why not let them live?

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by Liftyee »

charcircuit wrote: post #14
rovr138 wrote: post #9

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Or they had an idea, needed devices to test and be able to destroy if they fucked up.

He probably owned a device capable or running a virtual machine which would be much more convenient to deal with. Also this idea of "but what if I'll need this in the future", is a common theme among horders.

If hackers always chose the convenient option, that wouldn't make for very challenging or interesting projects ;)

There are probably thousands of regular VPS webservers out there.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by addandsubtract »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #34
subscribed wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it Really neat achievement, it'd stand out on your CV, make sure to always add it there, it'll spark a fun chat on interviews.

> It's your fault for not putting CDN in front of it That's no fun. The right answer is to distribute load across a cluster of 100 repurposed disposable vapes.

Alternatively, have a 503 "Smoke break" page.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by charcircuit »

Liftyee wrote: post #35
charcircuit wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just laziness. It may not be financially worth it to do including the personal labor you have to do compared to throwing something in a trash can.

Not everything in life needs to be financially worth it... If repurposing otherwise "disposable" resources brings them enjoyment and it's a reasonable time spent, why shouldn't they? Ultimately, it's not your storage space being used for this. Why not let them live?

This repurposing is of only one he owns and the novelty of reusing it will likely wear off within a couple of weeks as having an extremely weak web server is not particularly useful.

It may not be my storage space but people in this site do have a higher chance of hoarding ewaste for no logical reasons and I'm hoping that pointing this out can help people realize that they don't need to hold on to every random gadget forever.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by charcircuit »

ehnto wrote: post #28
charcircuit wrote: post #26

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As long as waste is being responsibly managed it will not poison the planet.

It is not being responsibly managed, it is poisoning the planet. You can defer responsibility to others such as the producers and recyclers, and I think we should. But it doesn't mean we can't control what we buy and throw away as well, especially if we know better which we do.

>It is not being responsibly managed

Then this is the problem that needs to be fixed. Ewaste only contributes to a couple percent of overall waste. Saving just ewaste doesn't stop the vast majority of waste entering the landfill.

Re: Website is hosted on a disposable vape

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Post by charcircuit »

mrheosuper wrote: post #31
charcircuit wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Embedded within a disposable vape, yes. Plenty of things that are reusable are waste. When someone finishes milk jug, most people throw it away and buy a new one instead of going to get it refilled. Pretty much everything thrown away could be used for something else.

The plastic that holds the milk is not designed to be reuseable, and plastic wear down is a thing. But the battery inside disposable vape is designed to be rechargeable.

It's designed to be rechargeable due to economies of scale. It's cheaper for them to use rechargeable batteries in a disposable product I think they should be able to. They shouldn't have to purposefully have to break the recharging functionality to sell it.
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