Afaik it’s still the law in Oregon. I could be out of date (old) but their state law forbids you from filling your own tank, you have to let the attendant do it.
edit; and yeah it’s always been weird to me too. Like you can trust someone to drive a car but not fill it with gas? Bizarre priorities.
Individuals having desires is not “the problem”. That would be corporations having free reign to behave however the fuck they want, so long as they can pay the fed.
There are some shops that will actually collect the vapes and send them back to the manufacturer for recycling. But it’s less common than it used to be, which frustrates me to no end, it should be the reverse if anything.
I think it’s the marketing of it. A decent amount of people I’ve talked to genuinely don’t know that there’s a reusable option. This also changed when the tobacco industry got involved. Vaping used to have more of a culture of cessation. It was talked about how you could transition from cigs at a higher nicotine level, then bring it down until you’re vaping zero nic, then quit that. I barely hear anyone talk about the quitting pipeline anymore. I don’t think it’s an accident, I think it’s intentional.
Edit: I also think it’s the fact that you only have to buy one thing, and the 3 things (device, coils, juice) aren’t available in every gas station like disposables are. And the user experience - open the box and it starts right up, no refills, all it needs is a charge once in a while. People are really fucking lazy, by nature. But the cost of all those conveniences is indebted tenfold upon the environment, as destruction and waste.
As someone who vapes quite a bit, I would genuinely love to see this. Disposables are an absolute shitshow and never should have existed in the first place.
Yes, offloads into system. Oh and i forgot to mention that’s with the context set around 25k. That can vary greatly per model though, it’s taken some experimentation to figure that out.
I have a rx5600xt (6gb), 32gb ram, ryzen 3600. System hasn’t been updated since i built it during covid. QwenV3-vl35B is the heftiest thing I can run, it gets around 2 tokens/sec, in LM studio. It’s easier than most people seem to think.
Ah for fuck’s sake. Seems like every month I have to change something because some fucking company starts getting a taste for greed via data sucking. I’m goddamn sick of it.
Selling the booze is a crime - selling the cups is not. Loophole!