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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by userbinator »

zero_k wrote: post #129

I am happy they demonstrated how useful these devices are. Marking these as "disposable" is a kind of insanity. I recovered a few of them "disposed" (i.e. "randomly thrown away into") in an empty flower pot, and took out the LiPo batteries from them -- which are rechargeable, and have charge circuitry (non-trivial for LiPos). That we somehow decided that it's OK to design these to be used only once feels wrong. This…

"One man's trash is another man's treasure."

That we somehow decided that it's OK to design these to be used only once feels wrong.

But clearly they can be reused, so maybe it's better that they be thrown away by the unknowing, giving those who do know a source of cheap (as in free) electronics?

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Post by blooalien »

staplers wrote: post #110
ffsm8 wrote: post #97

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obsessively woke people Because most "woke" stuff is made up or blown out of proportion by people on the internet. One person might do one thing and the video/meme goes viral and people eat up the story like its some movement

At least partly because ["woke"] sadly doesn't even remotely mean what it used to mean anymore. It's been "stolen" and abused by those who vehemently hate everything that any part of it has ever stood for.

[woke @ wikipedia]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by CyberDildonics »

aDyslecticCrow wrote: post #365
CyberDildonics wrote: post #361

I don't understand the hardware setup. There is a usb-c port and they talk about usb serial devices which could be a usb to serial port, but what is after that? There are no pictures of it connected.

My best guess is that only the power pins of that usb port is connected. So they're going over a debug port for io.

Someone in a different forum said it was a usb to serial port then on a pc a network port was forwarded to the serial port, but it is very unclear in the article.

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Post by SXX »

marcosscriven wrote: post #298
SXX wrote: post #136

Talking of cheap and powerful devices one can also look at Chinese UZ801 4G LTE (Qualcomm MSM8916) dongles. They cost like only $4-5 and pack quite impressive HW: 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM, actual 4G modem sometimes with 2 sim switching support. Since it's actually old Android SOC there is even GPU and GPS in there. And a lot of work was already done on supporting them: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Zhihe_series_LTE_d…

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.

Well, I guess my post was slightly misguided on price because I bought them in South East Asia and they look a bit more pricey in EU / US now. Might be some tariff price changes played the role IDK.

As for the chip basically almost all USB+LTE+WIFI sticks on Chinese marketplaces using it. They all have slightly different way to get adb / edl and flash, but all seems somewhat open.

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Post by SXX »

haunter wrote: post #359
stavros wrote: post #357

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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

They basically all come in 4-6 designs, but only difference is how easy it to get to edl / adb.

On some of them you just load debug webpage and on others you might need to ground some pins.

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Post by panarchy »

gabriel666smith wrote: post #46
panarchy wrote: post #44

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Having an addiction doesn't make anyone "a pathetic excuse for a human being"

I agree wholeheartedly. I've been (I am?) addicted to many substances, from fruit-flavoured nicotine juice through to heroin. I find self-deprecating humour useful, personally. It helps me not wallow, to take the cravings less seriously. I of course wouldn't say the same about anyone who isn't me. Because, as you say, someone who has an addiction isn't lesser than anyone else. It's a state of being that requires an a…

Good. Just wanted to make sure you weren't being too hard on yourself.

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Post by datameta »

steezeburger wrote: post #255
lyu07282 wrote: post #237

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Liberals generally want more regulation what are you talking about and why are you breaking the HN rules?

I don't recall the exact language but it was rather flame-war-esque in a comment full of otherwise benign discourse. The issue isn't liberals or conservatives being mentioned. In what way do you think I broke the rules? That it wasn't a substantive comment on its own? I didn't feel the pull to silently flag and hoped for GP to elaborate.

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Post by HaZeust »

cluckindan wrote: post #314
HaZeust wrote: post #262

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>"Disposable vapes put young people in contact with career criminals and organized crime, who will be only too happy to oblige even if the customer has no money. The result is young people in debt to criminals, which has the exact same ramifications as getting in drug debt. Those young people can then be coerced to commit other crimes to cover their debts." This feels like pure fearmongering, and it's not even believ…

Not everyone lives in the US.

what country contradicts my statements? Where in this world is getting spotted a Geek Bar equate to a severe debt that requires crime to pay off? Absurd premise.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by Telemakhos »

SXX wrote: post #136

Talking of cheap and powerful devices one can also look at Chinese UZ801 4G LTE (Qualcomm MSM8916) dongles. They cost like only $4-5 and pack quite impressive HW: 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM, actual 4G modem sometimes with 2 sim switching support. Since it's actually old Android SOC there is even GPU and GPS in there. And a lot of work was already done on supporting them: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Zhihe_series_LTE_d…

> 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM

And, that Snapdragon is 1.4 GHz, I think.

That's enough for a bare-bones WordPress installation.

My first laptop had a 100 MB had drive, 8 MB of RAM, and a 25 MHz processor, and I remember running a web server on it too, in addition to Windows 3.11 and word processors and other software. One of those dongles would have been godlike power back in those days.

I feel like somewhere along the way scripting got out of hand. Stuff like Wordpress is absurdly resource intensive.

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