• koper@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    Fun fact: some of these are made specifically for US prisons because you can’t hide contraband in them.

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      6 hours ago

      I love the idea that a product was created to prevent prisoners from smuggling heroin, but then someone said “You know, I bet that would sell great at Sharper Image.”

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      Welp, that’s enough dystopian reality for me today. I was actually hoping to have these for repairability and easier chip identification, but nope, built for prisons you say…

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        Yeah. They are often very locked down and lack features you would normally expect - especially connectivity and configurability. There’s a Youtube vid where a guy gets hold of one and the hoops he had to go through to install his own OS and get it to run some games… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRoRPiDOtUg