Steltek

How much stuff breaks when you do that?

> I disagree when it comes to people like teachers who are openly advocating for political violence.

Do you think that's a fair characterization of who's getting fired?

Was Matt Dowd advocating violence? How were his remarks so offensive that it merited his dismissal?

I didn't say they invented the walled garden. I said Apple made it acceptable and successful for general purpose computing. "I can't use Firefox on my phone" doesn't quite have the same ring as "I can't use Firefox on my Switch".

Ask yourself who was the adversary for this DRM model? Game console lockdowns were built to target publishers. Mobile lockdowns are squarely targeted at users. Both are bad but the implications, magnitude, and overall consequences are very different, IMO.

You were trying to re-focus the discussion away from Apple's behavior by pointing to Google.

Yes, both stepped over the line trying to anti-competitively make their browser dominant. Everyone had an ostensible choice to not use Chrome but if you spend enough money to be pre-installed, bundled, advertised, etc everywhere, you can take over. Good old fashioned monopoly tactics, right?

Apple took the novel, and IMO far more disturbing and reprehensible, approach by simply not giving anyone any choice. Since then, we've seen a huge expansion of DRM, integrity checks, eFuse, etc to strip everyone of their freedom. Companies got a taste of that sweet total control with iOS and wanted more.

This is a nonsequitor. You fear a loss of control (someone will force you to install Google and MS apps) so you choose iOS because it has less control.

Regular walkie talkies + VOX + headset re-assembled into the phone handset ? Make the phone hook a switch to cut the mic (err, like it originally did, I guess). It's not elegant but it could be a quick evening's work.

Speak for yourself. I can't wait for my Pebble to arrive so I can junk drawer my awful Garmin watch. The UI is dreadful to the point that I can't believe no one else notices. Like, doesn't anyone else notice how hard it is to get it to wake up the backlight so you can read the screen? I can shake my hand like I'm a paint mixer and it does nothing.

And that's not even talking about the software bugs that destroy a full battery in moments.

How did you get the Tapo cameras to play nice in rtsp mode with frigate? I found that even one camera did horrible things to the wifi. Even with one camera per AP per band, they caused trouble.

We've seen the GOP reaction at a State level. When a Dem governor is about to take office, the GOP legislature passes sweeping bills to limit executive power and the about-to-be-former GOP Governor signs them.

The US "fiscal situation" is a creation of the same sabotage-driven administration. Extreme tax cuts, deferred maintenance, and a bone-chilling police state apparatus is a sure fire way to destroy your economy.

> I do wish I could get the other modules in lavender too

Since we're in plastic/budget territory, is it absurd to consider a color matching sticker/wrap over the basic modules?

From the article:

> But how can websites know whether its users are using secure authenticators? Authenticators can cryptographically prove certain facts about their origins, like who manufactured it, by generating an attestation statement when the user creates a passkey; this statement is backed by a certificate chain signed by the manufacturer.

How many scummy companies trot out "Let me protect you from yourself" to justify taking away their users' freedoms?

It begs the question, are you carrying extreme loads, like refrigerators, on a daily basis? If not, then this is like buying an F-350 when you're mostly taking your kids to school. If so, then maybe none of these are the right design and you might want to look into something like a cargo trailer.

Self-hosted Matrix with all the bridges is awesome and brings back that Pidgin/Adium life of one chat app for all of my friends. Too bad Apple has an uncanny ability to avoid consequences with iMessage.

Tarpit instead? Trickle out a dead end response (no links) at bytes-per-second speeds until the bot times out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)

The original blog post for the revived Pebble was very clear about the design goals and it drove home something quite clearly: this is not going to deliver a laundry list of features or support all possible lifestyles. It will be focused on doing a few things well because there's a need for a modern Pebble not met by existing watches.

I have a Bangle2 and while it's super fun, I think it perfectly illustrates the point that simply having features isn't enough. I would not say my Bangle2 is the same as my OG Pebble.

The more interesting Apple trademark case was "iPhone", which was in active use by Cisco for their VoIP desk phones.

The politics are so bad that I think people should stay away from Lemmy period. It's like saying it's fine to create a Xitter account these days as long as you stay away from politics.

I have a Garmin Instinct 2. They definitely did not nail it. It's horrible in all respects. It's HUGE, physically painful to use, and the UI must have been written by 10 different teams who weren't talking to each other.

Compared to _Garmin_? The Pebble UI and OS will run circles around it. Intuitive, fast, and amazing.

My Pebble Time Steel finally bit the dust so I turned to a Garmin Instinct. I can't stand it. The button placement is totally random and legitimately painful to use. The Garmin software focuses on fitness activities to the exclusion of everything else.

I recoil at having been tempted by the more expensive Garmin watches. What a waste of money that would have been!

I guess I wasn't thinking of my primary line of defense: webapps! Naturally sandboxed and least privilege'd. And many of them are locally selfhosted in containers too.

Native apps for me tend to fall into a few narrow categories:

* Professional software engineering tools

* Videogames (on a Steam Deck these days)

* CAD for 3D printing (FreeCAD)

* A/V editing with Audacity, Gimp, etc

Moving PCs to a more mobile-like environment, where apps are always sandboxed and all permissions are explicit, sounds so tempting. But then you realize that manufacturers will always cross the line: MS and Apple apps get special privileges, the bootloader will be permanently locked, and you'll eat your DRM because you have no other choice.

I prefer to curate my own apps and if they misbehave, they're uninstalled immediately. The downside there is this philosophy feels a lot like, "I don't need a virus scanner because I'm too good to get stung by a virus". Still, it seems better than the alternative hell.

I feel the same way about e-bikes: expensive, proprietary parts and form factors everywhere. Oh, your battery is worn out? You need one that's custom molded to your downtube? That's too bad.

Thankfully they're easier to DIY than an EV car.

I'm pretty sure you can find the same radio hardware platform but FCC certified for GMRS (or so the label says anyway). Maybe they added filtering to get it to pass? That means a $35 GMRS radio with USB-C charging, swappable antennas, and higher transmit power.

He's already seen Meshtastic, which is something I definitely want to play with for his exact use-case: coordinating with friends while skiing.

With that kind of upload speed, I can see why you'd want cloud hosting. I'm paranoid enough to want a local copy so my first instinct is to still sync to home with an inotify script to trickle-push everything to S3 (quicker to start than a nightly script).

Sorry this isn't a helpful answer but over in Android-land, Syncthing does exactly this for me right now. I paired Syncthing with a script that pushes any new photos to a self-hosted gallery. It's as fast if not faster than Google Photos and totally independent of any Google ecosystem. Add another offsite Syncthing machine and now you have a magical offsite backup.

Oh my goodness, the irony of your username while arguing against precisely defining the sun's position in the sky!

But you're still correct: When most people are using time in conversation, they need it to be meaningful with respect to solar time. If your replacement method can't do that, no one will adopt it.

Zipcar is still around in Boston.

Has anyone tried this to run OSS photogrammetry tools like Meshroom? They mention a few proprietary ones in the article but my needs are pretty small.