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Gotta be honest I feel like Garmin is the perfect balance of pebble vs apple watch
Did you randomly bring this up, or are you saying this because you see a Garmin redirect when you click "No"? I ask because I get directed to the Apple Watch homepage.
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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.
Yeah, I saw that there is something called rebble, which is great. I'm just wondering whether the company did anything to support this before selling. I'm not an open source absolutist, but I really hate the trend towards obsoleting hardware because a company pulls support. Community stepping in is great, but it's not always possible without company support.
I was a huge fan of the Pebble. Had an original Kickstarter model and a Pebble Time (well, I still do, but they need battery surgery). Loved the epaper/10-day life design so much more than the Apple Watch. I'll be first in line for a new generation watch! Be great if you could get @Pebble onto BlueSky, for those of us who have left Twitter/X.
+1 on Bluesky, either that or Mastodon, so odd to still have to use a highly political and controversial platform like Musk’s Twitter to follow people and projects like these. Relying on Twitter is a liability, not a feature :/
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Garmin is the perfect solution if you want a smart watch with a gps that takes 5mins to possibly sync 50% of the time and a touchscreen-only interface that doesn’t work if it gets wet or say sweaty. Ie during most of the activities it’s supposedly designed for. When I got a garmin smartwatch I was astounded by how poor the basic ux is in almost every single way. If I’m swimming, how do I stop my work out? The touchsc…
This may be model/generation dependent. I've had such issues with my Forerunner 735xt (from the very start), but ever since I upgraded - or seen friends using - newer hardware, these issues have entirely disappeared. e.g I've traced sync issues to some problem in the BT stack: forcing a disconnect/reconnect made it sync without fail. GPS was slow to lock because of low storage thus no AGPS data. The situation with "n…
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The Fediverse is a bit like that. Anyone can post replies on things, but they don't spread through the whole network, only to people who are following the replier, and people on the replier's server, and the person who posted the thing being replied to.
It doesn’t seem to work quite like that. I don’t know the technical details, but I definitely see replies from people I don’t follow, from other instances, on posts of people I don’t follow on different (again) instances from mine and the replies. Perhaps it could be that I’m seeing replies from people that others on my instance follow? Or perhaps there’s some other mechanism to fetch replies.
I use my own server with only me, so it only receives replies because I'm following the person who replied or their whole-server feed.
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Yeah, I saw that there is something called rebble, which is great. I'm just wondering whether the company did anything to support this before selling. I'm not an open source absolutist, but I really hate the trend towards obsoleting hardware because a company pulls support. Community stepping in is great, but it's not always possible without company support.
They did, at the last moment they released a version of the app that could be repointed to alternative servers, in this case the rebble.io ones. Without them doing that, it'd be a lot less useful.
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It happens a lot in societies where people know and trust each other. Often you can even buy drinks by scanning a QR code, paying, and then grabbing a drink from the fridge. With nobody else involved.
While not disagreeing with what you said, such "grab a drink from the fridge" things are always in a monitored environment. There are no unlocked public fridges even hyper-high trust societies like Japan or Dubai.
Also, even with cameras, it is little help of I am a tourist. In Switzerland, I was in such a store in a mountain village.
I visited there once - no point trying to find me if I stole something.
Things I'd like to see:
1) transflective screen with a backlight which turns on when you raise and rotate your wrist (like the Fitbit). I think Pebble supposedly had this but it didn't always work very well and many times the screen was hard to see.
2) Contactless payment (I use it on my Fitbit all of the time!)
That's all! Everything else about the Pebble worked great!
Can't wait for updates! (I'm following your blog as well as the Discord)
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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).