Don’t Let Your Roomba Become an Expensive Paperweight
A guide to defeating planned obsolescence in your favorite autonomous floor-scrubbing bot. It turns out maintenance is actually better than buying a new unit every year.
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Calamity Blog
You make it……We break it!
Calamity Blog
You make it……We break it!
Month: June 2026
The Most Chaotic Low-Tech Upgrade for Your Ride
Forget upgrading your ECU or adding LiDAR sensors; there’s a new way to communicate your driving style to the world. It’s cheap, it’s nonsensical, and it’s a bumper sticker.
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Existential Dread, But Make It Desktop Decor
A laser-etched glass sphere representing the Laniakea supercluster has landed on Kickstarter, promising to remind you of your insignificance for about forty bucks.
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Planned Obsolescence: The Software-Driven Murder of Your Hardware
Amazon is doing what every big tech corp loves to do: turning perfectly functional hardware into paperweights through software updates. Let’s talk about why we’re letting them get away with it.
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The AI Apocalypse is Just a Set of Guardrails (and Not in a Good Way)
Remember when AI CEOs were warning us about a rogue superintelligence? Turns out, the real drama is just the model begging for someone to tell it what’s allowed. Let’s talk about the messy reality of AI safety.
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SpaceX: From Rocket Science to… Cellular Service?
Forget Mars colonization for a second; Elon Musk might actually be looking to turn your smartphone into a Starlink-dependent node. Here’s why the move to mobile service is both brilliant and slightly terrifying.
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Forget your 401k, I found a better way to spend your filament budget
A new 3D printable Warglaive model just dropped, and it’s exactly the kind of glorious, oversized distraction we need in our lives.
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The Art of Not Getting Scammed: Finding a Repair Shop That Doesn’t Hate You
When your hardware inevitably dies, don’t just hand it to the first person with a soldering iron. Here’s how to vet a local repair shop without losing your mind or your data.
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The Ultimate Hardware Upgrade for Your Morning Routine (Or Just Pure Garbage)
Is it a revolution in kitchenware or just another piece of landfill-bound plastic? We take a look at the new ‘Toilet Bowl Mug’.
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The Most Low-Tech Defense Strategy in a High-Tech World
Forget expensive sensors and AI-driven proximity alerts. Sometimes, the best way to keep people away from your gear is a classic, blunt-force bumper sticker.
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