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Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is why you don't buy any hardware that requires "the cloud" to function with no option to self host. At least they are giving refunds this time, but that's usually not the case.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bought a Rabbit R1 for half off used on eBay, but only after I learned you can install full Android on it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why? Its hardware is dog shit.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

I mean, it can be fun to tinker regardless. I have a shitty Dell Inspiron from 2012 that I run Linux in CLI-only mode just for fun.

In fact it used to run my entire smart home, run long-running background tasks (like syncing huge files from an NFS share to Storj); hell at one point it was bringing in passive income as I rented out hard disk space.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

4 gigs of ram, 100+ gigs of storage, and a cute design. Meh. At least it’s not totally useless.