can you call an uber/lyft?
TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
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Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
#332I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…
>I unapologetically love this thing.
I'm not really into the apple ecosystem, but I kinda like this as well. Smart watches don't really appeal to me, but something like this does.
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think this is silly in the slightest. There are lots of folks like me who deliberately want to break our phone addictions, which is why things like www.thelightphone.com exist. My problem with the Light Phone (owner of version II) is that it's too limited. I don't want to be distracted by notifications or social media or doom scrolling on the browser, but I do need things that are essentially task-oriented to…
> but I do need things that are essentially task-oriented tools: Uber/Lyft, Weather apps, Maps, Authenticator Code apps > because it's exactly what I'd want. I’m not sure it is. Most of the things you list aren’t that functional on Watch, in my experience. It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited, IME. You can definitely use Watch for a numb…
>It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited, IME.
Don't you normally still have a phone nearby and synced to the watch? I don't think I know anyone that uses a smart watch in lieu of a phone, just as an accessory that keeps them from having to pull out their phone.
Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
#334I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…
Does it at least do anything well? An iPod replacement would be fun, but the best thing about an iPod was the wired headphones. This would only work with my AirPods, which almost never work without fiddling with something either in the UI or by taking them in and out of their case.
They could theoretically add a headphone port to this and a bluetooth to headphone adapter. I don't think the chips for that take up much space at all.
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#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Distance decreases the intensity of exposure. I'm not trying to achieve complete avoidance, just a decrease of risk. To those who down-voted (actually or even as a psychological reaction) my original comment: consider for a moment that while this might be a fringe opinion, it is not without some evidence. https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/01/health-risks-of-cell-ph... If you think rats getting cancer from radiation i…
From the linked NIH page about the study (via the Wayback Machine): > “The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,” said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist. “In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where th…
Sure, but is causing a little damage to a tiny part of the body acceptable? Exposure levels and durations -- common sense would suggest those are going up with people using more devices for more time every day.
I was not inclined to believe this whole radiation business for such reasons too -- "it's one study", "if it were so bad this would make front-page of the NYT", "entire labs of scientists and governments cannot be lying about this", "it's non-ionizing radiation, that's why it's safe you idiot!" etc.
What made me look a little deeper was Huberman's AMA on EMF. It's become fashionable to dunk on him now but it gave me a pause in that I began to wonder if there might be some merit to this after all.
Ultimately, this is like assessing the evidence for any other controversial topic -- unless you're working in R&D on radiation yourself, individual retail consumers of research like us can rely on the published evidence only to a certain extent. Beyond that, it's your priors, risk thresholds and heuristics for who to trust that will determine what you believe.
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This was common in journalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-tock_(journalism) But I haven’t heard it in a while.
I feel like the most popular pre-app wide popular usage would’ve been the Ke$ha song.
>I feel like the most popular pre-app wide popular usage would’ve been the Ke$ha song.
Agreed, a lot of the alternative usages that people are mentioning seem fake and I don't recall any of them being a thing. The only usage I recall being widespread was people saying tick tock to tell you to hurry up implying that the hands of a clock are moving. That and the little known novel from the 80's about a sentient murderous robot.
Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
#337Fun fact: back when the original Apple Watch was being developed, Apple internally produced something similar for people secretly working on it to pretend it wasn’t a new product category. It was more or less a silicon sleeve that would show a fake keyboard. I may or may not still have one 0:-)
> for people secretly working on it to pretend it wasn’t a new product category
Ah, someone earlier posted a link to a youtube of it, but for the life of me I couldn't figure out why they had used it, I had assumed maybe the interface needed work still or something. I didn't realize it was just to keep people from realizing it was a watch, that's kind of brilliant.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but I do need things that are essentially task-oriented tools: Uber/Lyft, Weather apps, Maps, Authenticator Code apps > because it's exactly what I'd want. I’m not sure it is. Most of the things you list aren’t that functional on Watch, in my experience. It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited, IME. You can definitely use Watch for a numb…
> Most of the things you list aren’t that functional on Watch, in my experience. It’s ok-ish to pull up on Watch after you’ve set it up on your phone, but without a phone, Watch is much more limited It's okay to not pretend that Apple trademarked the word "watch". Calling it "Watch" looks/sounds incredibly awkward.
I've had the issue in the past where Apple's auto-correction would capitalize "Watch" every time I typed it.
It doesn't seem to do it on my iPhone now unless it's directly preceded by "Apple." But I wonder if they're hitting that because I notice a lot of different people are capitalizing the word.
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From the linked NIH page about the study (via the Wayback Machine): > “The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,” said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist. “In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where th…
Sure, but is causing a little damage to a tiny part of the body acceptable? Exposure levels and durations -- common sense would suggest those are going up with people using more devices for more time every day. I was not inclined to believe this whole radiation business for such reasons too -- "it's one study", "if it were so bad this would make front-page of the NYT", "entire labs of scientists and governments canno…
Would that be Andrew Huberman? The podcaster and self-promoter whose former research specialism has nothing remotely to do with RF, or indeed radiation of any variety? You should consider the possibility it has become fashionable to dunk on him because he deserves to be dunked on.
> Sure, but is causing a little damage to a tiny part of the body acceptable?
I'll answer that question once you've shown credibly that it is meaningful in this context.
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Do you have any guides for that? I'd like to try my hand at it.
I should have a guide, but haven't created one yet - don't want to derail the thread, but here are a few pointers: - The iFixit Apple Watch teardown is surprisingly effective - way more heat (and patience) is required then they indicate - Using an X-Acto blade between the frame and glass really works well without damaging a single component (please be careful and alternate heat and prying) - You may also need to repl…
You should post that someplace (of course I’m keeping a copy).