Kurt Mackey

Circular, circular. There you go, simple. And I think you mentioned what Kyle Wiens talked about with me on a podcast. Do you know Kyle Wiens by any chance? Does his name ring a bell?

Circular, circular. There you go, simple. And I think you mentioned what Kyle Wiens talked about with me on a podcast. Do you know Kyle Wiens by any chance? Does his name ring a bell?

He is the person who started iFixit. And they really started out as a wiki or kind of like everybody can share their own how to fix something because of all this right to repair situation.

He is the person who started iFixit. And they really started out as a wiki or kind of like everybody can share their own how to fix something because of all this right to repair situation.

That kind of touches on this circular thing you're talking about in parts pairing, which you talked about tangentially earlier. I'm just curious your thoughts on this. A power supply having to be thrown out as a result of a new CPU, which is a ton of waste.

That kind of touches on this circular thing you're talking about in parts pairing, which you talked about tangentially earlier. I'm just curious your thoughts on this. A power supply having to be thrown out as a result of a new CPU, which is a ton of waste.

You've got things, and I put the pin in with the one thing, I think to bring it back might be to discuss your thoughts on Oxide and what they're doing to sort of give you a full integrated, as best they can guarantee of all the stack working together in concert versus things not working software-wise or hardware-wise.

You've got things, and I put the pin in with the one thing, I think to bring it back might be to discuss your thoughts on Oxide and what they're doing to sort of give you a full integrated, as best they can guarantee of all the stack working together in concert versus things not working software-wise or hardware-wise.

So this idea of circular, this idea of parts pairing, and this idea of a full stack thing you buy versus parts in the middle.

So this idea of circular, this idea of parts pairing, and this idea of a full stack thing you buy versus parts in the middle.

What does it mean to be circular or circularity? What does that mean to you?

What does it mean to be circular or circularity? What does that mean to you?

It's better than like sitting on a shelf, collecting dust, having no use or going into a literal landfill where someone doesn't dispose of it properly. Maybe it has a battery in there, blows up a garbage truck. We've heard stories like that, you know, where basically if it doesn't have a removable battery, you're just renting the thing anyways. Yeah.

It's better than like sitting on a shelf, collecting dust, having no use or going into a literal landfill where someone doesn't dispose of it properly. Maybe it has a battery in there, blows up a garbage truck. We've heard stories like that, you know, where basically if it doesn't have a removable battery, you're just renting the thing anyways. Yeah.

Like I'm upset with my AirPods right now because they don't last as long and there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is buy another set, you know, for the new retail price, you know, whatever that is. And the current version I have is basically worthless, but there you go.

Like I'm upset with my AirPods right now because they don't last as long and there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is buy another set, you know, for the new retail price, you know, whatever that is. And the current version I have is basically worthless, but there you go.

So where do they go?

So where do they go?

make the computer make the rack better and then now that you have disruptively scalable and efficient economics on making computers you know figure out how to run them better for people you can go listen to this podcast at full length brian shares the story with me but the catalyst to do oxide officially was born out of angst of support from dell that they had an extreme issue that i'm going to paraphrase because the podcast is better and brian tells the story better

make the computer make the rack better and then now that you have disruptively scalable and efficient economics on making computers you know figure out how to run them better for people you can go listen to this podcast at full length brian shares the story with me but the catalyst to do oxide officially was born out of angst of support from dell that they had an extreme issue that i'm going to paraphrase because the podcast is better and brian tells the story better