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  • mhoye but seasonally spookymhoye@cosocial.ca
    Sep 26, 2026, 5:15 PM

    I don't know why you'd be following me if you're making custom hardware out there for this world of surveillance, stalking as a service, slop farming and so on, but if you are, I need to ask you for something for all of us: Find a way, with whatever workplace conniving or accounting chicanery you happen to need, to build whatever nightmare you need to build to keep a roof over your head out of individual, hand separable components. Compute modules, separate memory, breakaway boards, whatever.

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  • mhoye but seasonally spookymhoye@cosocial.ca
    Sep 26, 2026, 5:18 PM

    We're going to be pulling down and repurposing this stuff later. Guaranteed. So use your position and influence to choose components with standard interfaces, protocols and headers, choose standard form factors held together with bolts and loctite instead of epoxy. Find the justifications, fudge the numbers, do whatever you need to do, but make it easy for everyone - for us, for you, for all of us - to salvage this stuff piece by piece to serve the people and keep it out of landfills.

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  • Jon Shelljonshell@mastodon.energy
    Sep 26, 2026, 5:33 PM

    @mhoye Preach it! 1000x Amen.

    And while we're at it, washing machines and microwaves and refrigerators. Routers and bridges and switches too!

    Let's not forget power-generation systems - batteries, inverters, rectifiers, charge controllers.

    Let's start from the position of "this will unavoidable cease being useful one day, and when that day comes, how could we prevent these components from becoming waste?"

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