That standard covers batteries, not the devices that use them…

Also it doesn’t even cover the 18650s themselves since they usually have <5g of lithium in them.

It’s literally just a loophole for the manufacturers: if the users can’t replace batteries, you don’t need to do safety testing for that scenario

I’m not buying that at all…

First of all, there’s a wide range of DHVs sold with removable 18650s that are made by Western manufacturers

Arizer, tinymight, davinci, potv, etc.

Hell, even Chinese manufacturers like xlux/xmax have a separately registered company in the USA, and all of their products have replaceable batteries.

And vapes need quite a bit of power, which battery sockets are not rated to handle. So built-in batteries with welded tabs, soldered (or screwed) to the PCB, are kind of the only choice for the engineers designing these devices.

Secondly, nic vape box mods draw at least 2-3 times more amps and are still sold with removable batteries.

Give me a bong any day of the week, thanks.

Run a terpcicle through a bong and tell me it did fuck all

If you’re smoking 1g joints and dabbing, no shit a <0.1g portable chamber is too small. Fill any desktop with a gram and you’ll get absolutely blasted.

g pen elite for a not astronomical price but decent looking portable build.

NEVER buy a vape with an integrated battery. It’s idiotic on so many levels, and companies doing it should go under.

Battery not charged? Wait for a few hours instead of putting in a full one

Battery lasts a session after a year? Best hope you can take apart the device and solder in a new one

USBC port died, as is highly likely? Pray to find someone willing to replace it

Do you use one and if so do you have a reco?

What is your budget?

Starry V4 is the best budget portable I’ve used so far, and sees the most use from me even though I have multiple times more expensive convection vapes.

Terpcicle is by far the best budget desktop.

You’ve already got people suggesting dynavaps. Don’t listen to them, it’s an overpriced and overhyped piece of crap. It sort of made sense to buy it almost 10 years ago, but nowadays you have far better and cheaper options like the starry.

Thundermail seems cool at least

Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they’re just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent due to individual donations.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/

as an encrypted email service.

You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.

I’ve got no issues with helping people in need, but even if it’s not an embezzlement scheme, this is extremely bad prioritization unless their priority is publicity.

MDN is a proven resource that’s helped a lot of people learn to code. How many African translators can you hire for a milion a year, let alone like 8? How many more people would learn to code that way?l

But nah, let’s feed money into “partners” that use some experimental teaching methods, while destroying a crucial learning resource because corona made us broke.

Edit: fact checked myself and the corp killed MDN, and they’re paying the foundation to do projects like this through royalties.

In 2020 they fired the entire MDN writing team, slashed the budget, and basically left it in maintainance mode. The same year the foundation decided to drop millions on teaching Africans to code or some shit…

IMO for personal use “drag and drop into the correct directory” is an infinitely better organisational system than tag based libraries, especially for pirated books. I’m not going to sync my books across 10 different devices since I don’t need more than 1 reader, so it doesn’t make any sense for me to waste time using tags, let alone fix them for every book I download.

Clara colour is also awesome if you’re not reading exclusively bw. It does have slightly worse low light visibility because of the filter layers though.

Did they also force them to kill MDN, buy pocket, or funnel 99% of the foundation’s budget on everything that’s not Firefox?

Edit: fact checked myself and the budget part is completely incorrect. The foundation just leeches on the corporation through yearly royalties.

As far as I’m aware, fedora is a public project and not a org that is “owned” by anyone.

Yeah, RH only owns the fedora trademark, provides the infrastructure, pays for the salaries, and is the biggest funder of the org by far. It’s totally independent…

You’ve got to do a great bit of mental gymnastics to arrive at your conclusion just to try and make me feel stupid. Why?

If you feel stupid for not knowing basic information that’s your issue.

Also don’t act like there aren’t serious implications of imposing age checks in supposedly free libre software. Libre software should be a fundamental human right. You can believe in that and also that military interventionism is also bad.

Do remind me why you made this post? You can act virtue signal all you want, the fact is that you’re morally outraged about only one of those things. And since you’re this butthurt, I’m guessing my comment making fun of it really hit the spot.

I will not use a distribution that complies with this law because I believe it is morally compromised.

RH owning Fedora and funding it by making the American army more efficient at killing civilians - perfectly fine

Fedora will probably comply with the equivalent of a teen setting their age to 130 to watch porn - morally compromised

I’d be more worried about literally upstream bug testing for the DoD…

I think I’m going to move my patch to a sunnier spot too, for some meatier buds. I just go out there and lay under the plants sometimes it’s amazing.

As much sun and air (through pruning) as possible, both are signs for the plant to grow those nugs as big as possible because they have the best chance to be pollinated.

I also want to make some hemp cord so I can make friendship bracelets 😂 I want to use “every part of the buffalo”

I hope you don’t plan to do it by hand. I seriously doubt you’ll have fun whacking rocks with branches in a stream for days just to get some scratchy twine. Less than a century ago it was common for women villagers to do it in my country.

The same group that’s talked about in the first article has built the highway I’m talking about, but I can’t find an article with a good overview.

Google “developing countries debt trap China” and you’ll find plenty of articles on the overall scheme, these are just some examples from my country.

https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/13/modus-operandi-chinese-firms-trail-of-debt-labour-exploitation-in-serbia/

https://serbia-business.eu/ssp-criticizes-slow-pace-and-high-costs-of-serbias-milos-veliki-highway-construction/

https://balkaninsight.com/2021/01/26/like-prisoners-chinese-workers-in-serbia-complain-of-exploitation/

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/01/15/us-bans-imports-from-chinese-investor-in-serbia-citing-rights-abuses/

https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/chinas-rush-for-serbias-minerals/

Then we have the tragedy that started off the mass protests to take down the corrupt regime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_canopy_collapse

https://chinaobservers.eu/the-novi-sad-railway-station-collapse-the-cost-of-sino-serbian-infrastructure-deals/

If you don’t like my sources, you know what to search for now, this is just what I found quickly.

And you have the audacity to blame them for polluting the environment.

So I should be fine with Chinese companies doing whatever they want in my country?Tire factory releasing toxic waste directly into a river? Not a problem… The absolute ecological destruction from a copper strip mine? It’s an improvement over farmland and forests…

The infrastructure cracking might just be your prejudice, meaning you already believed they would be low quality.

Sure buddy, 16 people dead from a restored roof is my prejudice. A railroad bridge with breaking supports must be my racism. Tofu dreg practices like filling cracked foundations with foam must be the standard in developed countries? Multiple sections of the highway being closed down for renovations less than a month after the opening ceremony? Standard practice. Experts saying a newly opened tunnel will collapse is just panic I guess…

About slave labour, Chinese labour is paid more than Indian labour but I’ve never heard anyone call Indian labour slaves. It implies, it’s just CIA propaganda to bad mouth China. To be fair, their low wage is enough to live a better life than most Americans since everything is so cheap in China.

Read again, PRISON labour. And I don’t need the CIA to see the prison camps with my own eyes, and I most definitely don’t need it to smell the camps in the winter since they have no hot water. Again, standard practice in the developing world, we’re certainly not the first to have imported Chinese prisoners…

But while we’re on the topic of slave labour, we’ve got that too…

https://balkaninsight.com/2021/01/26/like-prisoners-chinese-workers-in-serbia-complain-of-exploitation/

https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/13/modus-operandi-chinese-firms-trail-of-debt-labour-exploitation-in-serbia/

https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-parliament-denounces-chinese-influence-modern-slavery-in-serbia/

Can you guess which Chinese company was developing the highway I mentioned is using prison labour? You won’t believe it, but it’s the one using slave labour…

Sure, they built a shit load of infrastructure here as well. For example we had the most expensive highway built by Chinese prisoners, and paid for by Chinese loans. It not only started to show wear less then a year in, but there are sections that are literally expected to collapse.

We had the most expensive reconstruction done by Chinese workers, the ceiling collapsed and killed a bunch of people.

And so on, etc…

Now they’re in talks to turn over every remaining national resource to them, to cover a part of the great work they’ve done so far, while Chinese companies are literally releasing unprocessed toxic waste into rivers.

I think I prefer one over the other.

It’s nice to have a preference in the taste of the boot standing on your face…

Yeah it’s great we built the most expensive highway in the world using Chinese prison labour, on Chinese loans, and it’s falling apart less then a year in. It’s perfectly fine that there are a 1000 different schemes draining the budget and literally killing people with tofu dreg construction. I guess we should feel lucky Chinese companies will take over national parks, waterways, and exploit every single resource until there’s only a toxic wasteland left…

Giving all power to China, would corrupt it almost instantly, and turn it into USA V2.

China is already extremely corrupt, they’re simply using militarised corruption instead of a military to exploit developing countries.

Meanwhile I’m on my second Logitech in 15-20 years.

2. There are plenty of guides and books on the internet. Look for what’s recommended now on Reddit.

3. That really depends on how much you want to grow, and your budget. You need an enclosed space if you’re not going to grow autos, lights, fans, substrate and fertiliser.

I’m assuming you’re on a budget, so:

The enclosed space can be anything from a 300$+ tent to two stacked buckets or a wheelie trashcan. Hell, even a big cardboard box should do for a grow or 2. The only requirement is that you can limit light, and can ventilate.

For the lights, if you’re on a budget use led lightbulbs and remove the diffuser. Phillips had the best lm:w ratio when I was doing it. Check on Reddit for specific guides, but if I remember correctly you need 20-30w/ft2, 4000k for both veg and flowering. When you get skilled, you’ll get slightly over 1g/w. Get a mechanical timer as well for the day-night cycle.

Fans: used pc fans are a good temporary measure, but a toilet extractor fan is much better for not a lot of money.

Substrate and fert: I suggest coco coir. It requires watering till runoff 1-2 times a day, and you have to learn how to make nutrient solutions, but IMO it’s far easier and cheaper than soil or pure hydro. Later on you can automate it with a couple of tanks and a water pump.

Go to a farm store and get 3 staged fertiliser bags (usually like 1 bag for seedlings, 1 for veg, 1 for flowering and fruiting), and a bag of calcium. Tomatoes and weed have extremely similar requirements so ask the staff for help, and to suggest to you a brand that’s used for drip systems (it means they’re completely water soluble).

For the best results, look for a fert with no C. That way you can make a big batch of concentrated solution and it won’t grow bacteria.

WARNING: special weed fertilisers in bottles are a complete scam, avoid them. Dry fertiliser for farmers is the way to go.

You’ll also need litmus strips and some acid. I got these at a hydro store.