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Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] NocturnalEngineer 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why? Its hardware is dog shit.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 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.

[–] ch00f 18 points 5 months ago

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