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Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] 40 points 5 months ago (5 children)

As someone who vapes quite a bit, I would genuinely love to see this. Disposables are an absolute shitshow and never should have existed in the first place.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Seriously. I struggle to fathom how running out for disposables is even slightly more convenient than refilling a proper tank every so often and replacing the coil. It tastes better, lasts longer and makes much less waste.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I think it's the marketing of it. A decent amount of people I've talked to genuinely don't know that there's a reusable option. This also changed when the tobacco industry got involved. Vaping used to have more of a culture of cessation. It was talked about how you could transition from cigs at a higher nicotine level, then bring it down until you're vaping zero nic, then quit that. I barely hear anyone talk about the quitting pipeline anymore. I don't think it's an accident, I think it's intentional.

    Edit: I also think it's the fact that you only have to buy one thing, and the 3 things (device, coils, juice) aren't available in every gas station like disposables are. And the user experience - open the box and it starts right up, no refills, all it needs is a charge once in a while. People are really fucking lazy, by nature. But the cost of all those conveniences is indebted tenfold upon the environment, as destruction and waste.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I can't argue with that. I started to preemptively keep myself OFF of cigs (entire family smokes and I knew I would eventually pick up the habit). For a while now, most of the talk around it I've heard is just whether or not it's cool or cringe rather than how it can be used to quit smoking.

    Maybe the disposables wouldn't be so egregious if you could keep the battery like you used to be able to and just replace the disposable tanks. I think that's what bothers me the most. We had an okay system before that wasn't really complicated and wasn't NEARLY as wasteful.

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