The actual article is hillarious. You can clearly read that this was an experiment. For the sake of it. Nobody is trying to argue that "AI vending machine is the future". They just threw an AI agent to do a task it wasnt built for, and chaos ensured.

I never heard of them before, but i'm getting major red flags from this :

• using indiegogo and not kickstarter (indiegogo has way laxed policies), and the goal seems very random and even low.

• selling a linux phone hardware, which is not what is needed. The linux phone issue is software, and they don't talk much about it. If you need a capable linux phone, the pinephone pro is "good enough"

• they boast about using a 3 years-old sbc. Granted it is a decent platform but there's nothing to write home about (and 32gb of RAM is uncessesary)

While this is the vision of a phone i'd actually get, this aint looking like the correct one. Also it looks like their campaign will fail.

Édit : lmao https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803559

This this this.

They want to sell their buds and headset.

don't misunderstand me, those are great repairable bluetooth devices, but if i were to not have a headphone jack and just a "long lasting repairable phone" , i'm sticking to my Google pixel.

Am using only boost, wherever it's allowed. Aka only lemmy

t'as le script checkarray . Potentiellement pas dans le path, sous debian tu peux essayer /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray