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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by kome on Saturday December 18, 2021 @03:18AM (#29602795)
> Yeah, how overly sheltered to not expect your headphones to not catch on fire and kill you. It's a symptom of not believing when someone pisses in our eyes and tells us it's raining. Especially when it's happening on our own dime.

I agree with the feeling, but flammable batteries are one of the less risky and stupid thing humans are doing.

I mean, we are literally littering the sky with swarms of useless satellites for the rich hikers in the global north (one example among many of totally idiotic behavior) - I can live with batteries.

(btw. I don't even have a smartphone or a cellphone in general, i know i'm a bit of a radical - and i use only wired stuff, because i find it more practical, durable and ecological - point is, people accept very stupid stuff for their convenience, that's why we are slowly killing our planet and ourselves - your points are valid, but it won't deter people from using dangerous chemicals in their lives, and the throwing them away and poison nature and themsleves)

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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by BenjiWiebe on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:00AM (#29605430)
I'm genuinely curious. Which satellites are you referring to?
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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by kome on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:13PM (#29610998)
Starlink, Project Kuiper, etc. where they plan to send more than 12,000 satellites into space, for having wi-fi on earth (for those who can afford it, it's very expensive, 500 usd setup + 100 usd per month - not affordable for 90% of the world)

but they are ruining the sky for 100% of us, for the benefit of some rich techbro that want to check emails in some remote place.

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Re:My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me... by BenjiWiebe on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:11PM (#29617844)
I see. I don't live in a remote place at all (central USA), but Starlink is far better internet than anything else we can get. Currently our connection speed is 0.6 Mbps. It's supposed to be 10, but they have problems pretty often...
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