graymess

@graymess@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can respect this practice, but in fairness, that’s like $1000+ of music purchases. Most people can’t just drop their $10/mo or whatever it is subscription and suddenly buy all the songs they want to listen to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s objectively a good thing that at least some of the vast amounts of e-waste out there is getting repurposed, but it’s also funny as fuck that US tech companies are already in scavenger mode over China’s halted exports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of hard to think of a use case for this. Not sure I’d ever trust a piece of tech that big, heavy, and expensive to just transport me into unpaved wilderness far from any of the resources it runs on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Accident or not, when a device is bricked it’s permanently fucked, functionally useless. The term suits it and should be what we call this practice unless there’s a harsher word to describe a company unplugging the necessary server that kills an otherwise useful, working device.