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Sounds like Amazon taking a page from Walmart’s book.

Misleading headline making it sounds like all battery recycling poisons people. Half assed battery recycling is half assed.

Also sodium ion or some other lead-free formulation will likely replace lead acid 12v batteries over the next few years.

Remembering when the Live Aid food was left to rot.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/07/13/Food-rotting-in-Ethiopia-report-says/7042490075200/

Please stop linking to cbs news.

Reminds me of ThunderScan. A device that turned your dot matrix printer into a scanner by pretending it was an ink ribbon cartridge.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/12/thunderscan-the-wild-1980s-product-that-turned-a-printer-into-a-scanner/

Quite a claim from the guy who labeled things “Full self driving” and “Autopilot”. 🙄

In exchange for his own mansion and a yearly stipend.

The website you linked to says that it’s not a class action suit, but a “mass arbitration” which I’ve never heard of. It also claims that Google has a “no class action” clause in its warranty/user agreement. I don’t see how that’s legal, but whatever. I also wonder if that clause was there at the time of purchase for gen 1 and gen 2 thermostats.

While an interesting idea, that project wants what amounts to the cost of a new thermostat in exchange for a kickstarter project. Might as well just buy a new thermostat.

Surprisingly, these still work as dumb thermostats after the cutoff date.

Was hoping something like Homebridge could be used to still control these, but so far no luck. After the cutoff they can be used manually like a traditional thermostat, which is a surprise coming from Google. I still fear they are going to generate a bunch of ewaste from people replacing them.

Isn’t this how Skynet started?

I think it’s more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.

They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.

Would this be a good replacement for 12v lead acid car batteries as well?

This report is a blog linking to a blog.

https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa

Just doing everything they can to drive people away from Windows.

Sure. Outsourcing all of your pharmaceutical development to other countries:

• means you are screwed in the event of a war (economic or physical)
• means you have no control over quality of said pharmaceuticals
• means that expertise is no longer available in your own country and you are again beholden to others because those countries can charge whatever they want or refuse to sell it to you at all (see battery tech, microchip tech, solar tech for other examples).

You want to go over there and learn how to adapt their tech? Great. (We did that with the Japanese auto industry in the 1980s and we imported rocket expertise after WWII.) But things like drugs, food staples, and construction materials should be made at home. There’s a reason we subsidize farming.

Personally I think the feds should be manufacturing generic drugs to ensure availability and quality, and to provide some competition to bring prices down.