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Mildly Infuriating Tech Packaging Waste for Consumer Ego-Stroking (tube.tchncs.de)
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[–] chop@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

They're hard shell cases for laptops like the one in the first seconds of the clip. Insurance required this bare-minimum protection for the laptop fleet upgrade, before deploying the laptops. The cases are not available in bulk packaging, so they are all being removed from their full retail packaging.