*looks at phone
People died getting the raw materials out of the ground to make this. Many of their bodies were just left in the ground, some were children. Many others died of disease from becoming contaminated with by-products of the purification process.
People literally died to make this device and it’s going to be obsolete in few months ostensibly for security reasons, but also so I’ll be forced to buy a new phone.
Long live the Orphan Crushing Machine.
oh but u see its very expensive to recycle so we gotta keep crushing orphans. u wouldnt want ur iphone to be $5000 right
tbh they gonna keep increasing prices and not do anything differently so. i love the world
frankly the world would be better if smartphones cost 5000$ but then also lasted 15-20 years
we all know that no matter what they cost, they wont be built to last under capitalism. my 10 year old phone works just fine but cant install any modern apps. my 5 year old phone works just fine, and so many major banking and even government apps no longer work. bc we live in hell, we have to have a new phone with worse featureset, more lockdowns, that last even less and cost more bc “security” or whatever the fuck. i hope someday this changes
till then i try my very best to use fdroid for most apps (ofc minus banking and government bc we live in hell)
Get yourself a fairphone next time you need a smartphone. They’re not perfect, but they’ve tried to disentangle their supplier chain from the orphan crushing machine as much as possible.
I do this for the amount of effort that went into the packaging for most products that immediately gets thrown in the bin. Then there’s the life-cycle of the paper towel…
Buuuut you notice good/bad paper towels! The same goes for toilet paper.
What is really fucked is that everyone knows what good tp feels like. Yet, some companies choose to make awful tp to save money. Don’t hit me with it is cheaper to make. No, you save a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a cent using single ply compared to two ply because most of the cost is in shipping the tp.
Toilet paper in public places doesn’t suck because every building and business owner is a cheapskate. Toilet paper in public restrooms sucks because if it doesn’t, people steal it.
Yes!
Somehow I got watching a plastic clamshell manufacturer on Instagram. It’s fascinating and terrible.
I like reading instructions for the simplest things. I go to the warning section and I imagine that someone had to type out text to not submerge the mechanical part of the my mini food processor because someone decided it was a good idea to wash a mini food processor by submerging it in water.
What are you supposed to submerge it in then? Fire? Checkmate.
Honestly, how else can you be sure it’s sanitary?
Bleach /s
Bleach is for injecting.
Like UV light
Well you can definitely wash it by submerging it. The warning was probably about washing it while it was plugged in. I once washed a keyboard in the dishwasher. Worked perfectly fine afterwards. You just have to make sure it gets dried and there’s no corrosion forming.
That’s…don’t….do not do that
It’s generally fine. Some medical grade keebs are specifically designed to be cleaned in such conditions as well. If you run it just with water and let it fully dry there’s nothing that’s gonna short it, and it should still be enough to remove the gunk and sanitize it.
I wouldn’t bank on mechanical key switches to dry out while they’re assembled. A membrane keyboard would probably be fine though.
Some medical grade keebs are specifically designed
We know as a species how to do a lot of stuff we don’t normally do because there’s no market. In this particular case you can get one of those keyboards starting at around $100. I wonder how many of them are never washed because the doctor’s office doesn’t have a keyboard dishwasher installed?
No, we just slap it together out of spare parts lying around, make it look like a decent product even though we messed every production step up, then ship it, with no wrap.
But then someone else put thought into the spare parts…
I’m pissed off now thinking the amount of wasted time and effort that exists in products and that we have the pleasure of paying for it all when buying them—then half of the time it’s made like shit upon release! All that time and effort and the product is fucking awful. Great work everyone.
Source https://xkcd.com/1741
Now think about the software…
Which one?
The old way of doing software like putting a whole system into 64kb of ram (voyager I, Old consoles…) or today’s bloat (500Mb for an app to adjust my earbuds, looking at you Anker Soundcore ಠ_ಠ )
Mercy Street played during a scene in Halt and Catch Fire that I was watching and it really made me feel this. There really must (as feature in the show) be arguments happening all the time, at every level, for even the most insignificant of things. To realize thought and intentionality are hewn into everything makes me feel connected to the world in a way I wasn’t previously aware of. Maybe it should have been obvious but I’ve spent a decade watching the world careen side-to-side. Its nice to think someone cared about my lamp and my table and my lunch.
Looking down on empty streets, all she can see Are the dreams all made solid, are the dreams made real All of the buildings, all of the cars Were once just a dream, in somebody’s head
I recommend the book The Hardware Hacker by the legendary Andrew “Bunnie” Huang. Really gets into a lot of this stuff.
The Mezzanine, abridged version
TIL about a new book, ta!
