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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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post #351

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> if there was a single button audio recording app Would the watch require 1 or 2 hands to record audio? The ring seems easier to use while biking. Or driving.

Can't you just say "Hey siri, add a note"? I add reminders, send texts, etc. that way.

There is the small matter of a 3-4dB price difference between this ring gadget and your "Hey Siri" capable watch.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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post #520

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I’m fully aware that the context is about the regulation. But this thread is like pointing out that the cybertruck doesn’t meet EU regulations. It doesn’t matter because the truck is a sales disaster in its most potent market and will probably be discontinued.

Ok, so the discussion isn't interesting to you because you think another thing will make the second thing irrelevant. But obviously discussing the second thing has value, regardless of your personal opinion, so why don't you just stay out of the topic instead of trying to change it to something else?

> so why don't you just stay out of the topic instead of trying to change it to something else?

“Because this thread is currently higher up the page than the threads talking about what they want to talk about, so they'll get less attention” would be my guess.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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e-waste also have a cost. And regulations are here to make businesses internalize this cost instead of letting society as a whole pay it out.

Sometimes the cost is that there is no viable product.

And that is perfectly fine!

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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What about an iPhone. Can you change the battery without specialized tools?

From 2027 onwards the answer will need to be yes, as a result of these standards.

Or Apple will throw a hissy fit¹, stop selling them directly here, but get the sales anyway as people will buy them elsewhere and import to sell on the grey market.

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[1] Though last time they did that, disabling existing features in response to the app stores decision, they backed down PDQ, so maybe that threat would have no weight.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

#546
post #299

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I think this could be useful for the type of person that uses uses todo lists to help them tackle lots of small tasks that they intend to do immediately but somehow get distracted mid-action from and never finish (and then forget about altogether). As described in this blog post that front-paged hn some time ago: > When I notice a micro-task like this, my instinct is not to do it, but to put it in the todo list. Then…

> small tasks that they intend to do immediately but somehow get distracted mid-action from and never finish (and then forget about altogether). That’s the idea, but now it creates a secondary burden of having to act on those notes to translate them into actions. When it’s time to process your 20 different 3-second thoughts from throughout the day, is the easily distracted person actually going to sit down and work t…

> When it’s time to process your 20 different 3-second thoughts from throughout the day, is the easily distracted person actually going to sit down and work through all 20 of them at the end of the day without also getting distracted?

I think the idea is that the person would be happy to circle back and finish the first thing they started, but simply forget about it altogether, so they think they are done with tasks and go on to other ("unproductive") stuff. If they can inject the habit of always checking stuff off a list when finishing things, they'll see they never finished the first thing they started, and then take care of that.

Checking off things from the list is much more satisfactory than adding things to a list, so it makes sense to have input be as low friction as possible, while checking off can be a bit more work (pulling out a phone which has the list).

I'm skeptical about the effectiveness of this in reality. Just a thought.

Re: Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

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From 2027 onwards the answer will need to be yes, as a result of these standards.

And this time the whole world can thank the EU, Apple is definitely not going to create a special iPhone hardware just for us.

Or curse the EU, if the compromises necessary to make the battery replaceable result in a less robust product.
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