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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by dns_snek »

rasse wrote: post #54
xp84 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why to me it’s so damn disappointing to me that vaping is targeted so forcefully by the various scolds in the “regulate everything” camp when smoking isn’t yet eradicated. Things like banning flavor and stuff. They want it to be as unpleasant as tobacco, which reduces the likelihood of people switching from tobacco to vaping, killing many of those smokers as a way to “save” teens from taking up an overall not…

There are numerous other options for supporting smoking cessation that do not risk lung injury.

Counter-point: For someone who's used to smoking or vaping, the craving to "take a puff" can be a very strong, maybe stronger than the chemical dependence on nicotine itself.

I noticed that in myself when I was trying to quit, vaping nicotine-free liquids helped my cravings more than nicotine itself. It didn't help the physical withdrawal symptoms but it mysteriously stopped the cravings for a while.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by balder1991 »

malfist wrote: post #7
jsheard wrote: post #6

You think a Cortex-M0+ in a disposable vape is wasteful, wait until you see the ones with colour touchscreens and Bluetooth radios. It's probably only a matter of time before they start running Android on them.

What's insane is how cheap all those components are. A quadcore processor with ram and memory, WiFi and Bluetooth for pennies at wholesale. The latest and fastest GPUs might be a marvel of technology, but so is the tech that let's us make and esp32 for almost nothing

I guess at this point it’s safe to assume humanity won’t regress to a time before computers anymore.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by GJim »

dudeWithAMood wrote: post #11

What were you doing to get traffic from the open Internet to your webserver at home? I always felt that was a risky proposition, but I might just be stupid.

> What were you doing to get traffic from the open Internet to your webserver at home? I always felt that was a risky proposition,

How times change.

Once nearly every self respecting IT pro ran servers from there home network. The modern drive to outsource and consolidate the interweb to a handful of big players I find rather odd; perhaps even counterproductive in the long run.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by bombcar »

pavon wrote: post #53
ViscountPenguin wrote: post #32

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The majority of people reuse those bags, they're pretty great actually. Most people I know have slightly more expensive bags made out of fabric though.

Not here. Standing in line at stores like target that have them I see maybe 1/20 people checking out in front of me bring in reused disposable sacks, while 15/20 leave with new ones. Certainly not enough reuse to justify the extra thickness.

I do really enjoy the thickness, and they do displace the cheaper ones in the tube of spares at home, but they’re just bags at the end of the day.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by bombcar »

what wrote: post #60
xp84 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do, but they still don’t make it back to the stores enough, and nobody has 16 wastebaskets to line every week. Also the old ones were just as suitable for wastebasket duty. The bag laws have done nothing but increase the consumption of plastic, since stores still go through nearly as many, but they’re 5x thicker now.

Why are you buying 16 bags worth of stuff every week? That seems like the bigger problem.

If you have a family and a grocery store in walking distance you can do it easily; I would hit 16 if I forgot my shopping bag - which I do on occasion.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by Dilettante_ »

efilife wrote: post #35
Dilettante_ wrote: post #22

I respect the point about not wanting to send the manufacturer any business, but I would love to know the brand so I'd know which ones to rescue if given the chance.

I am probably stupid so bear with me. I don't get the part about not naming brands if you are certain they won't ever sponsor you. I feel like it just hurts the value of the article with nothing gained

It's not about sponsorships and integrity, it's about preventing the pipeline "Person reads article -> Sees this brand of vape has micocontrollers -> Buys this brand of vape".

(If I understood the author correctly, y'know, not to speak for them)

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by ruperthair »

sunsetonsaturn wrote: post #58
happyhardcore wrote: post #13

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VPS with public ipv4, connected to home network over Tailscale and forward the traffic with socat. You'd probably be fine opening a port directly but a small VPS is free most places so might as well make the most of it.

Could you elaborate more on the "a small VPS is free"? Except Oracle's free tier offer, I am not aware of others; I'd appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

I'm not sure where to go for the free VPS, other than Oracle Cloud, as you mention, but a Cloudflare tunnel will get traffic into your LAN even behind CGNAT or other nonsense.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by ta12653421 »

malfist wrote: post #7
jsheard wrote: post #6

You think a Cortex-M0+ in a disposable vape is wasteful, wait until you see the ones with colour touchscreens and Bluetooth radios. It's probably only a matter of time before they start running Android on them.

What's insane is how cheap all those components are. A quadcore processor with ram and memory, WiFi and Bluetooth for pennies at wholesale. The latest and fastest GPUs might be a marvel of technology, but so is the tech that let's us make and esp32 for almost nothing

yeah, in 1992 we ran Doom on a 386DX 20Mhz and 320x200 VGA mode :-D

(and it was slooooow and ugly!)

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by ivape »

I wonder how much cost would be added if they included a small usb storage drive in those things. You could incentivize non-disposal because people would have a million of those things.

It’s really hard to quite vaping btw.

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