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Hosting a website on a disposable vape

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x187463 ◴[] No.45249934[source]
Re-using this sort of device is super cool. I can imagine a post-apocalyptic scenario where a city is run on a hodgepodge of random computing devices like this.

I will say, though, disposable vapes with microcontrollers inside (and even full games and screens from recent reporting) are an egregious source of e-waste. Many layers of stupid are present here.

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palata ◴[] No.45250673[source]
The fact that selling such a thing is profitable means that we lack regulations somewhere.
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gwbas1c ◴[] No.45251642[source]
No, it means computing has gotten so %$#@ cheap that it's cheaper to just cobble together cheap parts instead of spending the money to design a purposed device.
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palata ◴[] No.45252114[source]
That's not mutually exclusive with what I said.

Laws are not here to make money, they are here to decide what kind of society we want. If electronics is too cheap and it creates wastes, I'm of the opinion that we should make it illegal, period.

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1. datameta ◴[] No.45252654[source]
I was with you until the last clause of the final sentence, which I believe is against the HN guidelines.