graymess
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- 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 5 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 9 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.