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45 points by macleginn 4 hours ago | 12 comments

sva_ 3 hours ago

That picture of it being somewhere in the woods, so presumably somewhat off-grid seems cool until you realize an amateur thief with a crowbar could probably crack that open.

Edit: the off-grid comment is a bit silly but I mean presumably this thing would need to be placed somewhere with around the clock security

voidUpdate 2 hours ago

It's an AI generated image so I wouldn't trust anything in it apart from the gemini icon

ttul 19 minutes ago

Confirmed: there is some kind of high voltage transformer in the background at right, sitting on the ground entirely in reach of toddlers. That is most definitely not a compliant high voltage installation!

roxolotl 2 hours ago

It also needs a megawatt so you better have your own turbine off in the woods with it.

awestroke 2 hours ago

Just have some autonomous killbot drones patrol the perimeter

twentyfiveoh1 30 minutes ago

I am not too familiar with these people. "preorder" is like a kickstarter ? One of those LEAN exploratory things?

They have no product that they can demo but they expect payment in full?

Are they white-labeling this or do they plan to design it if there is interest and ship it "eventually" ?

Centigonal 21 minutes ago

This is geohot's newest thing. While he's definitely a cowboy, he has shipped hardware successfully at Comma.

hmokiguess 60 minutes ago

I'm amazed one can just setup this kind of operation on Shopify, even more amazed that there can be consumers happy to go through with this as the payment front door with all the fees included.

ttul 16 minutes ago

When I started taking pre-orders for my failed Bitcoin hardware company in 2011, people were willing to wire $100K with almost no verification that our hardware existed (it did not), never mind whether it worked (it never did). We never accepted a single order, partly because I wasn’t willing to just YOLO it before I had equity investors who could take the risk instead of hapless consumers.

On reflection, I should have taken their money.

parsadotsh 53 minutes ago

> Bank Deposit

> After you complete your order, you will receive an order confirmation email with wire details. NOTE: UNPAID ORDERS WILL BE CANCELED AFTER 5 DAYS. You will receive another email when your payment has been received and an email when your order ships. Deliveries to residential addresses may require a phone call for scheduling.

hmokiguess 44 minutes ago

Ah, that explains it, I forgot Shopify allows for manual payments without fees. Appreciate the reply!

logicallee 19 minutes ago

The specifications are listed here: https://tinygrad.org/