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Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by alias_neo »

jdietrich wrote: post #443
alias_neo wrote: post #437

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> 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.

Interesting, I have some TP4056 already, but wouldn't I need some form of "balance" circuitry if I want to connect multiple of these together, to ensure they're all charged and discharged evenly?

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Post by tdeck »

bjackman wrote: post #332
whycome wrote: post #329

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Are they an egregious form of Ewaste really? (Serious question). Because there’s so much reusable hardware in so many of the other things we throw out (phones, cars, laptops, etc) but we don’t make reasonable efforts to limit that. I’d love if the vape hardware was standardized to a degree for cool reuse projects like this. Donate a bunch of used vapes as hardware platforms for school projects? Like arduinos…but not.

Most of these vapes are reusable as vapes. They just get sold as disposable and the manufacturers don't include a refill mechanism. I am very strongly pro-vape more generally but disposable ones should absolutely be illegal. They only serve to a) make them more attractive to casual users (instead of people switching from tobacco) and b) generate waste. Zero benefit to society. There was a time when people could argue…

At least in the US many of these no-name disposable vapes have a really high nicotine concentration too (since they're basically illegal why bother with labeling or regulations). So they're much more addictive.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by 0x3444ac53 »

jimmaswell wrote: post #47
Zak wrote: post #16

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I'm confused by why anybody would buy one of these when entirely reusable versions exist, but then vaping seems unwise to me in general except as a way to quit tobacco.

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.

The main issue with vapes. Especially disposable ones, is the amount of metal in them. Lead, nickle, chromium are among them are are all carcinogens

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Post by numpad0 »

Tepix wrote: post #421
sitzkrieg wrote: post #179

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it's almost like everything matching the pi footprint is severely overpriced!

The original Raspberry Pi Zero was a good deal at $5 or even at $10. Too bad it was always poorly available and mostly bundled with overpriced dongles, power supplies, SD cards etc.

From what I've read online somewhere, Zero was a loss leader product made with input from Eric Schmidt, intended to be sold along attractive accessories. The Pi Foundation did try briefly but wasn't able to come up with the accessories, leading to that poor availability and WH variants that made little sense.

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Post by nusl »

mcdonje wrote: post #116
nusl wrote: post #100

Disposable vapes are an abomination that somehow society has normalised.

Society tends to normalize things that have ad budgets.

Ad budgets and convenience/"cool factor." Similar to cigarettes, people think they look cool when doing it and/or do so to fit in with groups that do.

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by numpad0 »

greenavocado wrote: post #307
Rzor wrote: post #272

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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.

How much work is it to rip one of these open and reprogram?

I had looked into "properly" buying LCDs once, just in case it had been within trivial reach of mine and I could just do what I wanted to do.

The one I was interested in would come in couples of aluminized vacuum sealed bags in a cardboard box, with 2k panels per each bags, laid out on plastic trays and stacked few up. The standard procedure to use these things is to wipe the bag surface to remove contaminants, leave it 24 hours at the factory to equalize temperature to avoid causing condensation, then tear it, and put it through production line before the panels degrade from absorbing too much moisture in the air.

I suppose you can forget about surplus parts or just buy 1/n of 2k parts at n/1 price premium from manufacturers with quote-unquote-nonfunctional parts, should you be contractually required to do so, but the point is, you can't easily produce just 1k of something in excess of 10 or so of prototypes built of no-guarantee spare parts.

Unless the total cost of gutting and reprogramming work exceeds that of fulfilling MOQ amounts of few thousands total(including customer warranty spares, media and storefront demo units, investors thank you specials, lottery prizes and all), it's going to make more sense to just buy and gut existing things, than producing just 1k units.

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Post by Jyaif »

oblio wrote: post #438
Telemakhos wrote: post #390

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> 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 sc…

Let's not overhype those days. I had a P1 166MHz and playing an MP3 meant everything else would have to be closed, if I'd open Word the song would stutter. Not all modern processing power is wasted.

I could play mp3s on a 66Mhz CPU, though yes other tasks would make the playback stutter.

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Post by chucksmash »

cluckindan wrote: post #412
HaZeust wrote: post #389

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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.

Obviously it isn’t about a single vape. A bulk dealer wants to get rid of stock as quickly as possible, so they don’t expect a payment up front. Say it’s a box of 200 vapes. Then, someone steals it from the teenage vape dealer. Now, the teenager is out $4k in income but expected to pay $1k to $2k to the bulk dealer. That kind of debt to organized crime balloons fast; there are no controls on the interest. After a mon…

What does somebody buying hundreds of vapes to resell and then having them stolen have to do with individual customers, which was the original premise?

Re: Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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Post by oblio »

Jyaif wrote: post #458
oblio wrote: post #438

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Let's not overhype those days. I had a P1 166MHz and playing an MP3 meant everything else would have to be closed, if I'd open Word the song would stutter. Not all modern processing power is wasted.

I could play mp3s on a 66Mhz CPU, though yes other tasks would make the playback stutter.

I was doing it on Win 95 or 98, maybe the OS was using more RAM than yours?
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