iFixitApr 30

Shoutout to the marketing ‘expert’ who mailed a large, battery-powered, LCD-equipped video greeting card to our CEO to demonstrate their innovative approach to ignoring the #ewaste crisis. Bold strategy.

We’ll be sure to reach out if we need help shipping steaks and leather handbags to PETA.

Show threadadison verlice
@iFixit I think peta is an animal organization, I don't think they will take that idem. also it seams really cool. imagine having a greeting card in the form of a computer. most likely they wanted to send you a literally email, what that email being physical. that'd actually call for a good experiment in my own home, to see if I can get a physical battery powered greeting card that will automatically display something like this when opened. love the guys creativity
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Show threadINDERIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Apr 30
@adisonverlice @iFixit
someone built this entire electronic device with the sole purpose of being opened once, used, and probably thrown out - to the people with the goal to reduce electronic waste through self-repair. this is very much like sending PETA steaks and handbags.
Show threadkittyboy Apr 30
@adisonverlice @iFixit i think you may have missed the point. ifixit advocates for the reduction of ewaste. a greeting card like this is designed to be only used once before being thrown away. it is designed to be ewaste. mailing an electronic greeting card to ifixit is like mailing a steak to peta.
Show threadSnep Apr 30
@leafeon @adisonverlice @iFixit On top of that, I betcha that products' repairability score will be terrible due to a glued down battery and a glued chassis with no user-replacable parts! 
Show threadadison verliceApr 30
@snep my little project is not gonna be sent anyware or have anything done to it after I do this experiment, so I am not worried about repairing it. it's an old android 4.2 tablet, so I don't care if it's thrown away. hell, someone can come on the part in front of the house and take if if they want, I personally do not care. but if not, that shits getting thrown away lol.
nevertheless, yeah I don't think it's a good idea to just ship it off to a company
Show threadJargogglesApr 30
@adisonverlice @snep
It's like you're responding to bad LLM summaries of single paragraph comments...
Show threadadison verliceApr 30
@jargoggles I don't use LLMs for replays, other than for grammar purposes. and even then, I only use grammar fixing tools for bigger paragraphs where I really need my point to get across.
Show threadJargogglesApr 30
@adisonverlice
I want to believe this is some kind of Andy Kaufman-esque account so bad...
Show threadadison verliceApr 30
@jargoggles nope, this account is hosting normal content and this is an actual person. I actually joined tweesecake back in 2024. but I cover real topics, and ot silly ones like these, so I was just curious. to me, it just sounded like a cool thing to do. again, not that I would send or recommend sending one of these, but I think it was silly eitherway
Show threadSnep Apr 30
@adisonverlice I wouldn't call the project you mentioned a product. With product, I was refering to the commercial greeting card iFixit got sent. My reply was not a direct response to your project idea, to be fully transparent.
Show threadadison verliceApr 30
@snep o ok
Show threadEmber ​May 1

@leafeon @adisonverlice @iFixit well, that is if you ignore that peta is actually for animal cruelty

See https://blogs.duanemorris.com/animallawdevelopments/2025/02/04/petas-animal-shelter-still-shows-grim-euthanasia-results/ for example

PETA’s Animal Shelter Still Shows Grim Euthanasia Results

Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) runs a facility that it calls an animal "shelter" in Norfolk, Virginia. All animal shelters in the Commonwealth of Virginia must report annually the number of animals the shelter takes in and what happened to them. These reports are filed with the Virginia Department...

Animal Law Developments
Show threadГранджовы Льис Apr 30

@adisonverlice @iFixit "email being physical" ...that's just called "mail"?

You really don't need to send a screen with a battery, to forward a message to someone. And, I wouldn't call something that's somehow more useless than those toy laptops for children "creative" either. It might be fancy, but it's completely impractical

Show threadadison verliceApr 30
@grunge_fox o trust me, I do a lot of unconventional things myself. and also, i'm not saying it should be done, it's just cool to have it happen. I don't send my mail in electronic computer throwaways, but still i'm gonna experiment with those in my home to see if I can get a similar result.
i'll probably just throw it away myself rather than sending it off though. maybe show it to a few friends at best. also I call it creative because, well, that is something you don't see everyday.
Show threadadison verliceApr 30
I already have a tablet that is a very old samsung that I plan to throw away, so what the fuck? let's fuck it up and throw it away lol
Show threadVIOLENCE SkateboardsMay 1
@adisonverlice Are they paying you
Show threadadison verliceMay 1
@VIOLENCESkateboards no, I don't get paid. i'm just a person who likes tech, I don't get paid