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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by cluckindan »

citizenpaul wrote: post #145
grues-dinner wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The micro in this thing is a WQFN-16 (W = very very thin, thinner than V for very) with 3x3x0.75mm body. That's around a fiftieth of a gram of plastic. I think the bigger SOIC chip is probably the battery charge IC. And then maybe a gram or two of PCB epoxy. And the plastic in the battery pouch and membranes which you need anyway. In terms of plastics waste volume, the casing and tank is probably nearly all of the co…

The mfg/mining process for the chips is probably equally bad. All for a device to help you develop health problems.

You could say that for a lot of devices.

It is indisputable that anyone switching cigarette smoking to vaping is making a healthier choice.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by BogdanTheGeek »

BruceEel wrote: post #140

This is quite amazing. Dumb question: is there a way to run it in QEMU?

Maybe, I'm not sure how you would connect a debugger to qemu, and you would have to emulate the ram and flash, but other than that is pretty standard arm cortex m0. The code is pretty generic too.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by jayd16 »

afiori wrote: post #131
rglullis wrote: post #102

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Between (a) component that costs tens of cents to mass produce and can be bought off the shelf and is reusable vs (b) component that needs actual experienced electronics engineers working on a single-use design that can not be repurposed later, I think we'd see that (a) might end up being less wasteful.

> can not be repurposed later whether it can be repurposed is worth little in being wasteful if >99% go to the landfill. > I think we'd see that (a) might end up being less wasteful. Monetarily? sure. Environmentally? unlikely

It's not so much that 99% go to the landfill, but this product does. Other products that use the same parts might be more reusable.

The point is that, most likely, the controller existed before this vape. Buying an off the shelf part can be cheaper than trying to bring up some custom part, both in cost and possibly in overall resources.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by x187463 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #150
palata wrote: post #139

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I feel like a law saying "don't put electronics in disposable products" would do the job.

What about Smoke Detectors, since they too are a disposable electronic?

You throw away your smoke detector? Just replace the battery.

My guy is out here pulling off the whole thing and tossing it in the trash.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by kpil »

Findecanor wrote: post #133
ffsm8 wrote: post #97

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The word "jihad" has a wider meaning than "holy war". It would better be translated into "worthy struggle" — with "worthy" being very subjective. Islam is in fact the largest religion (by worshippers) in the world today , so Frank Herbert's assumption that a culture derived from it would be dominant in a future society is just extrapolation.

I think the current estimate is that there are almost a half a billion more Christians than Muslims (in 2025.)

One reason is that the number of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa is growing. But extrapolating the trends, yes Islam will probably become the largest religion in the coming decades.

Or at least maybe - looking at birth rates, it seems as second generation muslim immigrants to Western countries have even lower birth rates than the native population. That might happen also in regions say like Pakistan and Indonesia and other fast growing regions, depending on economical or other changes.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by ramesh31 »

palata wrote: post #135
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.

The fact that selling such a thing is profitable means that we lack regulations somewhere.

>The fact that selling such a thing is profitable means that we lack regulations somewhere.

It's the exact opposite. Tobacco is so heavily regulated and taxed that these become profitable. If cigarettes were 3-4$ a pack (which they would be without sin taxes and regulatory overhead), the vape market would come down as well and there's no way these could be profitable. As it is, they retail around $20 and contain the same nicotine as multiple $10 packs of cigarettes.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by robterrell »

kilroy123 wrote: post #108
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.

Makes me think of these: https://duskos.org https://collapseos.org

holy crap, what a rabbit hole you sent me down.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by ch4s3 »

shadowgovt wrote: post #118
ch4s3 wrote: post #94

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Why wait until they're empty, let he fish vape I say!

If the eels get car batteries, the fish can have a little vape, as a treat.

It seems like depending on the dose, Zebra Fish rather like it.[1]

[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027858461...

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