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E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

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Re: E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

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Post by nyanpasu64 »

I'm still upset that Raspberry Pi was focused on ensuring institutional customers (like these electric scooters) could order thousands of Pis, while leaving hobbyists trying to order single-digit quantities scrambling through years-long waiting lists and listings which get snapped up in seconds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_aL9V0JsQQ&t=564s).

Re: E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

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Post by constantly »

mhb wrote: post #3

So Spin is abandoning the scooters or their leaving is justification for looting? Also, if people are looting, isn't the more desirable thing the scooter?

Legally, abandoned property (at least at common law, not sure about Washington state) is up for grabs. Claiming abandoned property is not looting and not only is there nothing wrong with it ethically or legally, it’s probably for the best that it is out to reasonable use.

Re: E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

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Post by mhb »

constantly wrote: post #7
mhb wrote: post #3

So Spin is abandoning the scooters or their leaving is justification for looting? Also, if people are looting, isn't the more desirable thing the scooter?

Legally, abandoned property (at least at common law, not sure about Washington state) is up for grabs. Claiming abandoned property is not looting and not only is there nothing wrong with it ethically or legally, it’s probably for the best that it is out to reasonable use.

Yes, so are they abandoning them, or plan to pick them up and use them somewhere else?

Re: E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters

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Post by thatguy0900 »

mhb wrote: post #3

So Spin is abandoning the scooters or their leaving is justification for looting? Also, if people are looting, isn't the more desirable thing the scooter?

If anything the pis are the payment for disposing of the companies trash for them. They should be getting a fine for something like that, much less call it looting.
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