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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 mm263 »

vdupras wrote: post #197
mm263 wrote: post #191

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If I scavenge any machine today, how likely would I be to find a 6502 vs something more modern? I’d argue that some people might have a NES at home and one could get a 2A03 from it, but in a hypothetical scenario where I need to scavenge some computational power, I’d find an Android phone

You're much more likely to stumble one something more modern, but that modern something is also much less repairable. It's great if it works and if it can run Linux or Dusk OS, but when it can't, you're out of luck. With a 6502 or other such CPU, the machines you scavenge them from are much more repairable and adaptable. You can use those components like lego blocks. It breaks? either repair it or strip the working p…

I get the idea of making a frankenstein computer, I just disagree that 6502 is THE platform to do it on. Practically, there's no way for me to find it. Other comment mentions ARM, which is a much more interesting proposal to me

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Post by Rzor »

cjaackie wrote: post #244
dolmen wrote: post #218

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What about disassembling 1k dongles?

underrated comment, probably the way to go with an older chip and under 1k volumes.

And not even that hard to find: "alibaba MSM8916 LTE" on Google and lo and behold: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/TIANJIE-Qualcomm-MSM8...

$5.92 each for 500-2999 orders. What a time to be alive.

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Post by thescriptkiddie »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #210
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #204

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>All that hardware must surely be worth more than half the value of the actual product! I'm constantly struck at how bread (a pastry, say) in a plastic tray, wrapped in plastic, is so crazy to me. The effort and technology that went, and goes, into oil extraction and such - only to throw the packaging away immediately that I get home ... it's just so unsustainable. I wonder when in the West we'll start mining rubbish…

The cheapness of plastic just to speaks to the enormous demand for all the other oil products sold, it's practically a byproduct.

somebody once said oil is too valuable to burn for fuel. the important part are the petrochemicals, but the demand for fuel is so high that's where the money is

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Post by midasz »

gabriel666smith wrote: post #40

This is cool, but, man, I felt like such a pathetic excuse for a human being when, brutally craving nicotine, with my vape empty of the fruit-flavoured juice that I am literally addicted to like the stupid pathetic baby that I am, and stuck with the cravings because all the shops are closed until morning, and so, in need of a distraction, I opened Hacker News. FFS. Sometimes the only option is to laugh at your own ex…

Quitting smoking was the best decision I made and I wish I did it earlier. If you feel ready Allen Carr's book worked for me. I wasted so much time smoking.

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Post by efilife »

Dilettante_ wrote: post #76
efilife wrote: post #35

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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)

Ok, but what's bad about this?

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Post by madcow2011 »

metal696heart wrote: post #42

It would be nice to pool ideeas for what they could be recycled into. Imagine the amount of automatic cat feeders the world could build with these.

I've actually been trying to look into something similar? I have a pile of old vapes from friends/family I want to re-purpose, but don't really know where to start.
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