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Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by moWerk »

coffeeenjoyer wrote: post #42

Wow, this looks pretty cool! It seems you have quite a few features going... The main reason I haven't gotten a smartwatch yet is because of privacy concerns. But now seems like a good time to experiment with one of the watches you support. I also still dream of one day daily driving a Linux smartphone, but that feels a bit more unrealistic to me, as I have more expectations from a phone, like being able to use bank…

QML runs interpreted at runtime and Qt is very close to native C++, so both are actually quite lean and fast on these devices — the overhead is surprisingly small compared to full Android Wear, and we've tuned it heavily over the years to keep battery and UI responsiveness solid. If you see devices lagging, like the sawfish (Huawei Watch 2), its usually due to updating the android base to a newer one as the manufacturer planned for and losing some of those optimizations in the process.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by Aachen »

moWerk wrote: post #32
antonvs wrote: post #31

fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.

Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.

I hadn't opened the article yet and was just browsing comments over my cereal when I saw this and thought "ugh, amother one?" and went to check for myself

I didn't get an LLM vibe at all. Looking for it specifically, the bullet point about UI improvements is a candidate; the sentence following "mediawiki" could be an autocompletion; maybe the first sentence of the download section... but they're also all plausibly just a bit 'marketing team worded', so not necessarily LLM-sounding. And even if an LLM made suggestions to some small parts like these, who cares? There aren't any slop sections that waste your time, this is just like using a thesaurus — if these parts were LLM suggestions in the first place, which I don't actually expect because then there should be more of it

This type of post very poorly lends itself for auto-writing anyway. It'll put emphasis on the wrong aspects and not come out as intended, at least in my experience it's more work coaxing it to good results. It can be helpful not to start from a blank page but that's about it, I rarely find a sentence among the output that's fully usable as-is

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by darkwater »

bsimpson wrote: post #5

Wild to see such fragmentation in such a niche space. It's an aftermarket Linux flash for smartwatches, and there are companion apps for SailfishOS and Ubuntu Touch, which are extremely niche flavors of the already very niche mobile Linux.

This is a feature, not a bug. Like the many Linux distros we have or the many UI/WM you can use on desktop Linux.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by retsibsi »

moWerk wrote: post #32
antonvs wrote: post #31

fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.

Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.

I wonder if they meant this HN post (the OP), rather than https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/? The latter doesn't seem LLM-written to me, but the HN post does.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by dariosalvi78 »

coffeeenjoyer wrote: post #42

Wow, this looks pretty cool! It seems you have quite a few features going... The main reason I haven't gotten a smartwatch yet is because of privacy concerns. But now seems like a good time to experiment with one of the watches you support. I also still dream of one day daily driving a Linux smartphone, but that feels a bit more unrealistic to me, as I have more expectations from a phone, like being able to use bank…

BangleJS has an embedded JS interpreter and runs just fine for days without a battery recharge.

Re: Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

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Post by antonvs »

moWerk wrote: post #32
antonvs wrote: post #31

fyi the announcement is very obviously ai-written. It’s off-putting.

Fair suspicion in 2026 — but we actually started drafting that announcement in early 2023 before first committing it here: https://github.com/jrtberlin/aos2.0-post . As a non native speaker i sure ran my commits through grammar polishing multiple times over the years. And i am genuinely curious now what to avoid to not sound like an LLM if you could dig out one or two examples.

I was referring to the text of the HN post. The second and third paragraphs in particular, but most of it, really. If you didn’t use an LLM for that then congratulations, you’ve successfully nailed the Silicon Valley LinkedIn marketing guru zeitgeist which LLMs seem to gravitate towards.
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