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Indeed, what software would you want to update?

• itishappy 2y ago
  The quote db? I assume they're cached and not calling an API every minute.
  • eddd-ddde 2y ago
    That's what they mean. You could download new quotes every once in a while.
    • itishappy 2y ago
      Right, that's what it does. You can do it manually too if you don't want to connect it to WiFi.
• toast0 2y ago
  It might be nice to update the quote database, or the timezone database, and wifi is handy for setting the time. I built a wifi alarm clock with OTA updates [1], which is handy when I find yet another bug in processing iCal or assumption I've made about what data will actually be in the iCal files. :/ Although, at this point, I've figured out what kinds of things don't actually work and avoid them instead of fixing the bugs, because there's two of these in the wild and I think the person I sent the second one to gave up on it. [1] https://github.com/russor/ClockThing https://github.com/russor/ClockThing
  • bigiain 2y ago
    Yeah - timezones, especially daylight savings changeovers which sometimes get changed to the most trivial of reasons, is the one big thing that'd get annoying if this thing couldn't connect to the outside world.
  • HWR_14 2y ago
    Makes sense. I too had trouble with iCal. I don't see why I did - the format is simple enough. But making and sending iCal files to people with iPhones and having them parse it is harder than it should have been.
    • toast0 2y ago
      The format is both simple and not. Recurrence relations are tricky. Timezones are tricky and many implementations don't include them or don't read the included zones. DST changes are really tricky, and some times that exist can't be represented as local times.