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Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by RedShift1 »

ivape wrote: post #80

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.

> It’s really hard to quite vaping btw.

They put addictive stuff in vapes, because of course they do.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by jdoliner »

ivape wrote: post #80

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.

Hey can you print this paper off my vape bro? I need to turn it in to my next class.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by x187463 »

Re-using this sort of device is super cool. I can imagine a post-apocalyptic scenario where a city is run on a hodgepodge of random computing devices like this.

I will say, though, disposable vapes with microcontrollers inside (and even full games and screens from recent reporting) are an egregious source of e-waste. Many layers of stupid are present here.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by jerf »

The mismatch between the Ancient Specs of Yore is kind of interesting. The Commodore 64 had 64KB of RAM, but that RAM was attached to an 8-bit, 1MHz CPU. This thing has call it half the RAM of a Commodore 64, but it's attached to a 32-bit 24MHz CPU the 1980s could only dream of. And it's disposable in 2025. Pretty impressive in a weird way.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by grues-dinner »

NoiseBert69 wrote: post #86

I bought a few hundred Puyas for my lab as stock for projects. They are quite capable and very cheap uCs to have around.

Apparently they're cheap because they're a flash memory company that bolts a little CPU onto their own flash, rather than a CPU company having to then buy the more expensive flash with a markup.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by zetanor »

ivape wrote: post #80

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.

Add a GPS and a few propellers to vapes so they can fly themselves directly into the nearest river, lake or (as a last resort) ocean once they're empty.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by Mistletoe »

x187463 wrote: post #85

Re-using this sort of device is super cool. I can imagine a post-apocalyptic scenario where a city is run on a hodgepodge of random computing devices like this. I will say, though, disposable vapes with microcontrollers inside (and even full games and screens from recent reporting) are an egregious source of e-waste. Many layers of stupid are present here.

Will the Butlerian Jihad find all the vapes?
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