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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

andoando wrote: post #232
ramesh31 wrote: post #157

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>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…

They need to regulate the nicotine content. In Canada its 2% at least. In the US its pretty much 5% juice only. 5% is 50mg/1ml. A cigarette pack has about 25mg. A geek bar has 16ml of juice = 800mg of nicotine = 32 packs of cigarettes.

While that does vaguely gesture at an increased nicotine consumption, it's pretty meaningless without the corresponding consumption rates. My gut suspects the average smoker goes through a pack of cigarettes a lot faster than the typical vaper goes through a rechargeable disposable vape.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by darthwalsh »

xp84 wrote: post #51
extraduder_ire wrote: post #37

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If you're in the EU/UK the WEEE directive means anywhere selling them should take them back like-for-like to be directed into the correct waste stream. (they get paid some of the deposit on them to do so) I would be more fine with disposable vapes like this if almost all of them were recovered somehow, for the amount it subsidises production of Li-ion batteries.

Theoretically a high enough deposit could probably “fix the problem.” Like, if the empty was worth a $25 deposit most people would 100% take them back to the store. It would be annoying for people to have the high deposit, but it’s really a one-time expense. On the other hand at least in the US, a deposit of a buck or two wouldn’t do much. California has that for cans and bottles, yet only maybe 10% of people turn th…

Where I live in CA, many end up going to some stranger who rifles through everybody's curbside recycling bin before trash day. It's sad that times are hard, and this is the side job we've accidentally invented.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by darthwalsh »

bombcar wrote: post #9
jrmg wrote: post #5

I wouldn’t want to be the lawyer who one day will have to argue how a device with USB C and a rechargeable battery can be classified as “disposable”. I thought the point of making them like this was that they technically are reusable, so they can sell them (to people who for some reason keep buying them and throwing them away!) in places where disposable vapes are banned.

Just like how places with bag bans often just end up with thicker plastic bags that can be sold for ten cents and claimed as “reusable.

We get most of our groceries through Drive Up services, where you place an order the day before and they bring the groceries to your car. Through a combination of a new disability, and a new baby in our family, the convenience is well worth the price (free).

But now every week we have more and more reusable bags that we can't find any use for, so we recycle a bunch each quarter. (And even that is questionable, when they are covered in impossible-to-remove stickers.)

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

gleenn wrote: post #50
jimmaswell wrote: post #47

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Vaping nicotine doesn't seem that bad to me. AFAICT the dangers outside simple addictiveness are moderate lung irritation and cardiovascular effects, but no strong evidence of cancer caused by vaping alone - far better than cigarettes, and still better than an equivalent drinking problem.

I don't think adequate studies have taken a look into the long term effects of all the solvents and oils they use aside from the nicotine. Intuitively, this just seems like a terrible idea putting non-water-soluble vapors into your lungs but I am definitely not a doctor.

It's not exactly a wild list. You can make your own mint vape liquid at home by combining 1 part vegetable glycerin with 1 part glycol, dissolving nicotine salt to the desired concentration (most dangerous part due to nicotine's toxicity, suggest getting it pre-dissolved in either one or both of the above), then dissolving menthol in to taste.

Don't get me wrong: it's not good for you, but it's a lot less bad for you than cigarettes, and it's not some great mystery as to what's in it.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by numpad0 »

vdupras wrote: post #175
amelius wrote: post #167

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How do I build a 6502 from just the elements?

You begin by making a pen "from just the elements", then work your way up to there. In other words, it's a huge challenge, but 6502 is closer, in complexity, to the pen than to the, say, AMD Ryzen. But the primary idea behind Collapse OS isn't to run from 6502 built from the ground up (although it partly is), but to run from frankenstein cobbled up machines made from scavenged parts.

I wonder how many of preppers has mask images in their archives. Manufacturing primitive integrated circuits theoretically don't require digitally controlled machinery.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by stavros »

haunter wrote: post #309
marcosscriven wrote: post #298

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Where do you get them for $5? Cheapest I can find is around £8 (11 USD), and it’s not clear if they have this chip.

Yeah you won't find them for $5 unless you buy in bulk on Alibaba Aliexpress has this as the best selling one though the chipset is not confirmed https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006924641101.html Well I take my gamble, wait 2 weeks and see what I'll get

Which one did you buy, the red one or the white one? I do want a device that runs openstick, but I don't want more ewaste if it's the wrong one.

EDIT: According to this post[1] above, this listing[2] should be the real thing, as the red variant does say SSID 4G-UFI-XX under the cap.

[1] https://wvthoog.nl/openstick/ [2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006860833351.html

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by OkayPhysicist »

afavour wrote: post #56
xp84 wrote: post #49

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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…

A counterpoint: > A third of UK teenagers who vape will go on to start smoking tobacco, research shows, meaning they are as likely to smoke as their peers were in the 1970s. > The findings suggest that e-cigarettes are increasingly acting as a “gateway” to nicotine cigarettes for children, undermining falling rates of teen smoking over the past 50 years. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/29/third-of-uk-...

As an adult with a vaping habit, I can see how that happens. If you're a kid, and thus have unstable access to nicotine vapes (because they're illegal for you to buy), you'll be highly motivated to get your nicotine fix from something if your source of vape liquid dries up. Since cigarettes are more common, the result is a kid being likely to smoke sometimes.

Same thing happens to me (albeit far, far less frequently) when I'm out at the bars with my friends until 2am when I discover I'm out of juice. Since vape shops tend to keep normal retail hours, I'm limited on getting my fix from whatever the 7/11 is selling. If that's Marlboro reds, I'm probably going to smoke a cigarette or two.

Key difference between it being a "gateway drug" and not is the fact that I'll end up throwing away that pack the next day when I can refill my vape. Because smoking sucks in comparison. Not only on health grounds (not a huge concern for most nicotine addicts), but on basic grounds like "making you smell like shit", "hurting your throat", "tasting bad", and "not having the oppurtunity to be used nearly as frequently".

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by haunter »

stavros wrote: post #357
haunter wrote: post #309

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Yeah you won't find them for $5 unless you buy in bulk on Alibaba Aliexpress has this as the best selling one though the chipset is not confirmed https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006924641101.html Well I take my gamble, wait 2 weeks and see what I'll get

Which one did you buy, the red one or the white one? I do want a device that runs openstick, but I don't want more ewaste if it's the wrong one. EDIT: According to this post[1] above, this listing[2] should be the real thing, as the red variant does say SSID 4G-UFI-XX under the cap. [1] https://wvthoog.nl/openstick/ [2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006860833351.html

Looks like both those are the same, judging by the review pictures too

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006924641101.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006860833351.html

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by protocolture »

cluckindan wrote: post #313
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #245

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Everything you said is wrong. Refillable vapes are around the same price as disposables and kids get them from gas station attendants that don't care. What's this about organized crime?

Not everyone lives in the US. In my country, disposable vapes are banned, so everyone selling or buying them is committing a crime.

Banning vapes is stupid. Its basically just handing a monopoly to organised crime.
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