The first thing you should consider doing with you old device is selling or giving them away. This helps lowering the need for manufacturing more hardware, it prevents the hardware becoming e-waste in a drawer, and it put pressure on the market to lower it's prices.
Sure, you can reuse as a NAS, but someone probably needs it more.
I attempted to replace my 13 mini's battery today using the iFixit kit. I broke the OLED panel doing so. Removing the screen take much more force than I though.
I did this hopping to keep my iPhone maybe 2 more years. Now I am waiting for ordering the 17 next Friday. I will have to manage having half of my screen being white until then...
> Since then, he's used it as his daily driver, putting on at least 120 kilometres a day driving from his home in Wyses Corner, N.S., to Halifax and back each day of his working life.
120km per day of commuting is crazy to me. I work from home and occasionally do a 14km bicycle commute to the office.
I'm very happy, I will buy it if it has the same spirit has the previous ones. I loved my Pebble Time, I am not sure why I sold it. It was just what a smart watch was supposed to be, not a mini smart phone on your wrist.
Buttons instead of touch screen.
Long battery life.
Always on display.
Simple to use.
It could be set with an allowed list of friends and family only. The idea for me would be to know if it's worth looking at my phone if someone I care about tried to reach me, or if I can keep my eyes closed a bit longer instead.
I absolutely do not want an email or Slack messages counter, of course.
But in any case, maybe you are right, and it's a bad idea entirely...
> This mechanism is similar to barcodes and QR codes in the sense that the information is encoded geometrically, but it doesn't need to be scanned visually.
They really need to give more details on this. Maybe there is some RF voodoo here, but I find it hard to believe it is practical. Also, how much data can be stored?
And aren't most RFID tag programmable? If this requires a laser to be programmed, it might be a significant downside compare to the chip version.