Then with enough leaving the market, they will become a rare collectable, to bring the price back up in a few (or many) years.

Absolutely, the best thing to do is preserve it as best as possible and put in storage. In many years it will be worth something as a rare kit rebuild

Somehow, I just picture the old devices I've forgotten in a drawer somewhere for a decade - with alkaline batteries inside.

They had to have known that this would be brought to light when releasing something that they didn't get permission for. Asking twice means that they knew it sounded very like SJ. My theory is that this will be used as an example for why legislation needs to be pushed harder with tighter controls and official hardware/software locks. "We can't allow the masses access to generate whatever they want."

I wonder if apple will benefit from this?

It might spur some sales of entry-level iPads as a result of people finding that these Amazon tablets don’t run much useful software. It’s more likely that competing Android tablets at Fire pricepoints will take that marketshare though.

Maybe Apple should launch a line of even cheaper iPads that are meant to better compete with Fire-like devices. Even if the SoCs used in this line are a generation older than what’s in the current $329 iPad I’m sure they’d perform better than whatever Amazon is putting in Fires.

Half joking but I try to make sure to ask the AI to "explain line 5 - 20 as if I am new to coding" and throw that in a comment

Yup. A bad comment can be worse for maintenance than bad code without any comments.

yeah, it seems people forgot the other two 'R's ... Reduce, Reuse.. then when you can't do that, recycle.

Yeah, it still needs to be called twitter, even if it makes you seem out of the loop.

I've wondered the same. Will keeping spare computers and electric grid parts shielded underground be the only thing that can be done? Is there anything that ordinary people can do, or would it need to be nation-state level coordination? From what I understand is that the grid transformers are the items that would be the biggest impacted and the hardest to rebuild at a scale needed once the grid gets hit?

Just keep scrolling, or make the ads cycle through faster. The limit will be time and total people?

Personally, I'm burned out with the over-hyped scientific announcements that are many years away before anything of significance comes, or the battery improvements that don't show up and have some impractical gotchas. That being said, This is pretty cool someone got this working and they are being realistic with the impact to our energy needs and timeline.

Localize manufacturing? With those huge cargo ships producing lots of CO2, wouldn't the best impact be to reduce the use of those ships? Try not to ship parts to get assembled into another part, to get shipped again and again back to the origin, and then final assembly and packaging and shipped to the store?

I know it's naive to think we can build manufacturing plants at the source of raw materials, and near consumers, but there should be a better balance?

> to think we can build manufacturing plants at the source of raw materials, and near consumers

The source of raw materials and consumers may be quite far apart (certainly in the modern world). While it can be argued that maybe they shouldn't be, that is likely to require a significant change in consumer (human?) behavior. And then there is the question of how local is "local" - are you advocating for each city/state to be self-sufficient in terms of agriculture and manufacturing or are you considering a whole massive country like the US as "local".