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Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by BigGreenJorts »

nym3r0s wrote: post #528
dakiol wrote: post #524

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would bother me so much to track my health on a daily basis. Too much paranoia. It’s like looking at the stock price every day. I much prefer to track my health twice or so per year.

I agree that a single outlier is more stressful - but many times these aren't medical grade devices anyway so the actual data you're looking for is the trend (not the absolute values. A solution could be to measure it but not really track / visualize it day to day.

Dollar cost averaging health metrics :)

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by bcraven »

NoahKAndrews wrote: post #353
rzazueta wrote: post #341

I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it. However... If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dependencies like you did last time. Let ME self host my own Pebble server if I choose. Go ahead and default to your servers and sell services and whatever, but let me host my own and switch the base URL to my own domain, preferably with open…

Pretty much all of the cloud stuff has been reimplemented with open-source code by the community! See rebble.org.

rebble.io is the correct address

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by coryfklein »

BigGreenJorts wrote: post #598
coryfklein wrote: post #585

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you unpack a little more by what you mean when you say you use the watch to plan your route? Do you mean to say you're using the watch – with that tiny display – to choose whether you run over hill A or around town B? And what is the point of the tracking? Do you take time out of your day to review your past runs for some reason? My completely uninformed self is imagining a person sitting at their desk thinking,…

I cycle and I'm certainly taking time to review past bike rides. Especially the fixed routes I have. I'm seeing the speed overall, but also reviewing segments that are hard, address specific skills/challenges, or where I hit my top speed typically. I try to compare this to sleep and diet changes between specific rides, but am also keeping track of general trends (typically my goal is faster over time, but there are s…

Okay that makes sense. I can see how the tracking features would be really valuable to you, or really anyone that is very fitness minded. Probably folks like you make up a minority – though significant – market segment? Of my friends, many of them are fit, but I suspect only a few are engaging with their fitness data on the level you are.

I think some aspect of it must be aspirational. Man sees the advanced fitness features and thinks, "this is the thing that will get me looking like Vin Diesel!" and it feels productive to hit that Record Workout button and so the watch makes you feel more athletic in the same way that chatting on Slack can feel like you're being productive when you're not actually changing your behavior on a fundamental level.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by mattmaroon »

starkparker wrote: post #579
mattmaroon wrote: post #560

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Reader died because people were switching to social media. Reader also had no vendor lock in at all. There’s no network effect like Facebook. There’s no massive infrastructure demands like Google. No corporate sales process like Oracle, Microsoft, etc. You could very easily create a competitor and after it died, few even tried to replace it. I miss it but not enough to find another RSS reader. You’re never really the…

> Reader died because people were switching to social media. Which especially sucks, because its friend-of-a-friend model for making comments visible on shared items was better for discovering interesting people, constructively limiting the social impact of popular posts, reducing the dangers of unintentionally poor posts, and disincentivizing trolling than any social network has implemented since. For the few people…

I think it was just as much that the people who wrote blogs were switching to writing in the walled gardens of social media as it was the consumers. But yeah, I greatly prefer the days of blogs and RSS readers.

Now you have Substack and Medium and such, which are pretty decent.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by eitland »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #407
tomaskafka wrote: post #194

Awesome! The first Pebble absolutely fascinated me by having a hackable, C-running watch on my wrist. I vividly remember spending days fine tuning the heuristics of a simple step detection algorithm in the first watchface where I thought “seeing your daily step count next to time sure is awesome”. And later, tens of thousands of people thought so as well - this was one of the signs what the health-tracking wrist devi…

Indeed, I forgive Google about 40 of their killed projects for giving us pebble in return.

Forgiven, yes, but I still cannot trust them.

A decade of messing with my search results (they only cannot do that anymore since I switched to Kagi) and the killing of Google+ (still interested if anyone have alternatives. Despite its problematic start it became the only social network I ever enjoyed).

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by eythian »

erohead wrote: post #215
xavdid wrote: post #182

It's great to see them coming back! I adored my Pebble(s). 2 fun stories: 1. Pebble supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your phone, upload it right to the watch. Once, when out at midnight beer launch, I made a custom face for the beer and won a little keychain from the brewery. My Apple watch could never. 2. O…

We actually had a company tab at that ice cream shop - anyone who had a Pebble on ate for free :)

It's a pity that you didn't have a tab at the bar I bumped into you in in Amsterdam last year, while wearing my PTS, then ;)

I remember you mentioning that there was hope of the firmware being open sourced. Very glad to see that it's happened, and that I might well have a chance to upgrade this 10-year-old but still going strong watch.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by parpfish »

SpaghettiCthulu wrote: post #567
parpfish wrote: post #548

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Is this in the US? Because i can’t fathom just being able to casually drop in to visit a doctor like this. Any time I need to talk to a doctor, I have phone tag with their understaffed receptionist for a few days, then we set up an appointment 4-6 months in the future.

I'm curious, where do you live where that happens? I've heard similar complaints from fellow Canadians online, but it has never been an issue for me.

USA, and that’s with good insurance and a primary care provider

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by veidr »

hooli_gan wrote: post #553
jgalt212 wrote: post #542

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> High quality, healthy food is much more expensive per calorie than hyperprocessed, high calorie/low micronutrient, carcinogenic food. Largely true, but frozen vegetables are inexpensive. And they are healthier than fresh vegetables. Veggies are the key to good health for the poor.

> And they are healthier than fresh vegetables. Citation needed

Yes, citation needed (and also probably unlikely to be forthcoming or validated) but the rest of the comment stands, so let's just ignore this weakest/most-dubious claim.

Re: We're bringing Pebble back

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Post by eythian »

nebulous1 wrote: post #321

How were users left when pebble got sold? It's a little disappointing to read that the OS wasn't already open source. Did they provide any information that could allow other teams recreate services or update the firmware or were people left to fend for themselves?

There have been community-run services going since Pebble shut down. My pebble behaves as though nothing changed to this day, except the lack of new features being released.
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