Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @lemmy.world

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They'll take. most of the stuff they take, for free: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/services/recycling/pcmcat149900050025.c?id=pcmcat149900050025

Staples also has a good recycling program: https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling

I think the mouse repair issue needs to be fixed. It's criminal that they're not user serviceable with replacement parts.

A switch or battery going bad should not require a brand new mouse.

Google is introducing planned obsolesence in Fitbit

Have they? In what way?

They've done good work for Android and Pixel, promising 7 years of updates for the latest Pixels. Samsung has also gotten much better about this with their recent phones. That's going to put a huge dent in the e-waste as Android phones have surely been heavy contributors (certainly much higher than fitbit).

TVs get bricked with firmware upgrades.

What TVs? Vizio, Hisense, the Chinese junk budget brands?

Very sympathetic to your e-waste concerns; I think the source of the problem is actually getting better not worse though. In general, the mobile tech sector is "growing up" and supporting products longer.

This makes a lot of sense, thanks for the insight!

It was owned by someone like that, he gave the company away and it's now owned by a bunch of non-profits oriented around environmentalism.

And way better ownership evidently

I read this the other day... Absolutely insane story, I don't know how this is real life.

I'm not a conservative, and I actually like some of the things they'd call mainstream like AP, NYTimes, The Atlantic, but even I don't follow that logic... It would make them the mainstream, but they're not the main news source for everyone, so ... they're not the mainstream media.

One thing I do like is that they have (the option of) whole grain buns... I've been unable to find that elsewhere.

I'd seen Mindustry before on Steam ... it looked interesting, but never "interesting enough". I decided to pick it up given all the love it's getting here :)

He should enter politics.

Please don't do this to us.

So, I think this is a (helpful) general comment but wrong in this/my specific case.

The server is so small it's not really going to register on a 10-minute frequency for outgoing content -- I'm not that much of a lemmy addict! haha.

You can see in a comment here my most recent comment to lemmy.world did sync: https://lemmy.world/comment/8728858

I'm not having any issues with outgoing content, beehaw, the KDE instance, and several others. It's just lemmy.world that's acting up (which is unfortunately because it's my favorite -- I mod/run several communities and donate to here/them -- haha).

Yeah I'm basically the only user of this server. Good data point that you're not having issues though.

It's been up on 19.x for a few months now. It's also a full on bare metal server with a ton of resources, it's not at all starved.

It's almost like someone posted something to somewhere that "jammed" Lemmy and it just won't get past it but I'm not sure how to figure out what that would be or how to unjam things.

I've wondered if it would be possible to have a federated award system for funding... Similar to what Reddit was doing at one point. I actually kind of enjoy that and the fun emoji-like things that you'd see on interesting posts and comments.

That sounds like it's asking for some crypto currency mess though, or some (most?) instances just hanging them out for no charge.

Gah, I actually meant chain of trust... Oops...

WebChain of trust, the site only trusts certain attesters (yes this would be really bad for Linux).

EDIT: Used the wrong "of trust"

Thank you all for your votes (also a part of this one) :)

This is what angered me the most about this issue. I'm happy my fellow Ohioans were able to see this for the power grab that it was.

Well, it is true of Ohio.