At this point, is there any device left we could not make a web server yet?
Hosting a website on a disposable vape
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#442The 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.
It's got only 3KB of RAM, less than even the VIC-20.
Somewhat less than the NES, which had 2 KB work RAM and 2 KB VRAM.
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#443Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found [1] to be the best guide for getting started with them; you need to make a copy of the firmware partitions that you re-flash after installing Linux onto it in order to get the 4G modem working. It's honestly absurd how much you're getting for a fiver with it; add a power bank (or make your own from scavenged vape batteries in the spirit of this post) and you have a full Linux machine with WiFi and 4G that…
> or make your own from scavenged vape batteries in the spirit of this post On this note, anyone got a tut or links to where I can get an appropriate charge controller/BMS (UK) to do this? Like the post's author, I've been collecting vape batteries for a while and would love to build a power bank or use them in some IoT projects.
Aliexpress. A simple TP4056 usb-c charging board costs as little as 50p. For a few pence more you can get a power bank board with a charge controller and a 5v boost converter.
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#444As of this moment, this article has 420 comments which seems fitting.
I guess until now, mine may be the 421st.
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#445Talking 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…
> Qualcomm MSM8916 Well hullo there, turns out that's my old mate, the Snapdragon 410! Quite an unexpected surprise! And funnily in retrospect, my Moto G3 from 2015 (which I still occasionally use for whatsapp!) has the exact same processor, and turns out base android (7) is (un?)surprisingly efficient when you're not doing much! I totally believe you could get a lightweight linux distro going on; I'm more impressed…
Quad core 64-bit 1.2 GHz are you serious?
Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape
#446Want to fit a web server into a speck of dust?
Check out smews ( https://github.com/2xs/smews ) it runs with just 8k of flash and 512 bytes of RAM, supports HTTP 1.1 over TCP/IP, SLIP or others, with both static and dynamic content (GET and POST)
The code is 18 years old and hasn’t moved in 10, A sandbox for budding pentesters ;)
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#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
Juul was very popular and less wasteful (although not perfect of course) as you disposed of the liquid pod rather than the whole device, they were regulated out of existence though. The regulations had loophole/oversight which paved the way for the disposable vape era.
And we have people in the comment section saying we need more regulations.
There are many examples of good and bad regulations, I don't think you can just point at this one and say "see, regulation bad." They were too narrowly focused on cartridge based systems because that's what high school kids were hooked on.
Technically the disposables need FDA approval I think, many just don't have it. Manufacturers, importers, and retailers just don't care. There's a buck to be made and the spice must flow.
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#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cigarettes could sell at 3-4$ a pack only because some regulation are in place that enforce the total separation of manufacturing and selling those packs from paying the cost for the societal damages wrt. health, pollution, littering... There are many possible ways to slice the economical cake.
I'm not sure what your point is here. 1) They don't sell for $3-4 a pack, yet your post seems to imply that the system has failed for cigarettes. 2) For externalities beyond the input cost of a product, the default [natural] condition is for those costs not to be included - one needn't enforce anything. Rather, it requires that someone with power put their thumb on the scale to enforce the inclusion of those costs du…
Sorry it was unclear, I was replying specifically to:
> If cigarettes were 3-4$ a pack (which they would be without sin taxes and regulatory overhead),
Trying to show that 3-4$ a pack is not a more "natural" price for cigarettes than the current one, that it is a matter of perspective, and that if one wanted to construct such a natural price all externalities would have to be taken into account.
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#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO the most egregious part is that all of these vapes come with perfectly good rechargable lithium batteries at a time where lithium is one of the most important resources. And they all just go into a landfill without ever being recharged once. It really should be criminal.
Guess where that lithium came from in the first place? It's just going back where it came from, in a more processed form, for "storage" until miners get to it in the future.
Yep, it was just some teenage dinosaur's vape in the past. The circle of life!
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#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disposal fees were a thing here in Ontario, the idea being that consumers should pay up-front for the cost of disposal, and therefore expensive-to-dispose things (like things containing batteries) should cost more. We rewarded the government that brought this plan in by replacing them with Doug Ford, the brother of the infamous late Toronto mayor Rob Ford who was a literal crack-smoking drunk.
I sure as fuck did not vote for Ford, directly or by the local MP proxy. However, I will readily acknowledge that at the time of the election that brought the Progressive Conservative party into power, the Ontario Liberal Party was giving off strong signals that it had essentially given up any attempt at excellence in its execution of public policy, and that it was seemingly bereft of significant insight beyond the t…
I realize it's a small part of a whole, but it's kind of hard to ignore the broad rejection of environmentalism that happened across-the-board in English-speaking Canada. Green Energy Act was hated and cancelled, eco-fees were hated and got cancelled, carbon pricing was hated and got cancelled, bike lanes are hated and got cancelled.
It seems like voters will reject any attempt to fight climate change if there is cost or inconvenience involved.