I don’t think it’s more expensive to hire people for this work than to develop and produce a bunch of robots that are obviously not up to the task.
How could they ever be? Loneliness can only be adressed through sincere human contact. Any other (robotic) solution is financially wasteful at best and disastrously counterproductive at worst.
Let’s throw a clanker at a problem that obviously needs a human solution. What could go wrong?
Also: would it maybe be cheaper to just hire a human for this? Seems like the development of such a machine would be much more expensive that just hiring a guy.
Laptop repair guy here! This problem is common in consumer grade laptops. As far as I am concerned, it’s purposefully weakly designed, because these break a LOT.
Not the hinge is broken, but the mounting points for the screws that keep the hinge in place. Sometimes it breaks on the bottom case, sometimes it breaks on the screen side.
We fix these issues regularly with epoxy (and massive skillz, lol). With most hinges, you can adjust the force a little lighter to relieve the pressure on the mounting points. That way it doesn’t fail again, after repair.
Check Riverside and Earthside. Although they have similar sounding names they’re not related.
With Earthside leaning to mostly instrumental music, Riverside has clean vocals.
Enjoy!
Just a sad fucking bird. Fuck you buddy! 👍🏻
Your critique has no dominion here, Lemming. /s Big fan of the franchise. Just want some escapism for a few hours.