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.
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.
*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.
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.
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
I recommend the book The Hardware Hacker by the legendary Andrew “Bunnie” Huang. Really gets into a lot of this stuff.
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.
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.
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.
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 )
The Mezzanine, abridged version
TIL about a new book, ta!
