graymess

@graymess@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.