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by zevon 1y ago
There is a (relatively recent, for the Pebble-verse) Home Assistant app on Rebble that works with the current Home Assistant version. You can even do voice control and stuff. You can also do timers, reminders, web searches and similar basic
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by zevon 1y ago
It's not e-ink but a transreflective LCD. As to "why": I'm not interested at all in Garmin's sports and health features and their cloud stuff. Pebbles work well, get out of the way and have a nice, friendly and slig
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by zevon 1y ago
The contrast between all that fancy equipment and the actual work surface being a cheap-as-can-be fibreboard (that will get nasty quickly and suck up all liquids) with a more or less unfinished edge that will probably feel uncomfortable is
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by zevon 1y ago
It may be easy to get a simple(ish) one now, but there are already a lot of e-bikes out there with "smarts", apps, vendor-lock-ins up the wazoo, cellular connection and the like. If electric cargo bikes ever go mainstream, I expec
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by zevon 1y ago
This is a bit of a two-edged sword. I kind of doubt that Carplay and Android Auto will keep working with new phones as long as a car can. At which point you will end up with an old smartphone in your car or some workaround like that.
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by zevon 1y ago
I was serious (though I like irony, yes). People are messy and if you want facts and knowledge, getting as close to source materials as possible is what one always has to do. LLMs can help but they are no replacements for knowledge work and
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by zevon 1y ago
I think immersing yourself in a university is a good thing for a few years. It almost doesn’t matter what you study as long as you don’t treat university as a school or degree machine. Sit in on courses from other fields of study. Engage in
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by zevon 1y ago
If you want factual, how about the source material the LLM was trained on? If you want human interaction, you will probably have to deal with people being messy (just as LLMs are - they just hide it better beneath a veneer of sickly „polite
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by zevon 1y ago
Because I can only guess what experiences you need to go through to see your spouse in an LLM. They are probably not good experiences.
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by zevon 1y ago
Oh my. This subreddit makes me sad.
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by zevon 1y ago
I have the same attitude. While I don't keep them as long, I've rarely ever had a car that was less than 20 years old. And why not? Keeping stuff that works around instead of throwing it away is good, it's cheap, there is l
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by zevon 1y ago
This may be true under certain conditions but there are many cars around that are much older than 10 years and have never needed major surgery along the lines of an engine replacement. It's not unreasonable to expect a car and its engi
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by zevon 1y ago
Interesting. Can I ask if you use Apple's cloud services? If so, I understand. I don't use those, even on Apple devices, so to me, the whole setup is similarly annoying on both platforms with maybe a very slight edge towards the i
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by zevon 1y ago
With their canes, sound and tactile information, for example. I'm sure you've seen visually impaired people around and about on their own, no? Great to see that Touch Mapper is being developed and maintained actively. I've us
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by zevon 1y ago
There are many, many K.I.S.S. cars out there. They are used, old, cheap and can still run great. Personally, I really do not want to have a car with any kind of computerization (other than a basic ECU) and more complexity and weight than it
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by zevon 1y ago
I have been in similar situations and I've quit without having anything new. These decisions were very hard and, to some extent, haunt me to this day but they were the only way out. While I generally agree with the advice of quitting
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by zevon 1y ago
I can relate to not wanting any of the tech giants near my shit but may I ask what your Google concerns are on GrapheneOS? I also have an iPhone as well as a GrapheneOS phone. They are different but I'm quite happy with those alternati
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by zevon 1y ago
If you can live with SMS instead of iMessage: KDE Connect on Android works very nicely for messaging from the desktop (the Desktop application is available for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Functionality varies per platform but SMS works on all
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by zevon 1y ago
I get that it's always be about money in the end but I understand this sub-thread to be a bit more specific: Is there an ad sales platform run by Apple where your Benjamins have influence on the search ranking in the App Store? I and m
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by zevon 1y ago
Another ex-researcher here. Similar experience. I went in with hopes of a lot of rationality and intense cooperation between people who would be there mostly for a shared curiosity. Fast forward years and... Good grief - so, so many people
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by zevon 1y ago
The original comment was about Apple's App Store. I assume there are financial ways to get your App "featured" there or something like that but as far as I know, you can't financially take direct influence on whatever lo
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by zevon 1y ago
Depends on what you need or want to do with it, I guess. Storage via USB-C or Thunderbolt and Ethernet over an adaptor works fine and is plenty fast for my music and video library and as a backup target.
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by zevon 1y ago
Well, there is the Fabricademy (an offshoot of HTMAA / the Fab Academy) for all sorts of things related to textiles: https://textile-academy.org/ But yes, generally speaking, the focus is on digital(ish) fabrication wh
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by zevon 1y ago
Just a random powered USB-C Hub with a few external drives on one port and a Thunderbolt SSD I had from an old project on the other. For now, I just use the SMB server built into MacOS because I've not gotten around to installing Asah
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by zevon 1y ago
I agree, especially about the integrated USP and peripherals. In my case, I currently use a Macbook Air M1 (my personal one which I currently don't need as a laptop). Absolute overkill and in some aspects annoying - only two USB-C port
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by zevon 1y ago
Going around a CS research department and asking the population there to justify their cron jobs and other stuff they run sounds like an excellent use of a (rare-ish) university admin / IT staff's time... /s And deal with the
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by zevon 1y ago
Free and available is always good (especially in a research environment). ;) The author also says this in the P.S.: "I believe the reason people run IDE backends on our login servers is because they have their code on our fileservers,
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by zevon 1y ago
In this context, it is a Unix machine configured for general purpose use (so no minimal web-server-centric OS, for example) where everybody in the organisation gets a login (probably automatically and tied to whatever SSO they use). There m
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by zevon 1y ago
I'm of the "my NAS/home server is an old Laptop and a bunch of more or less random drives in a box" persuasion, but this is great work and great documentation! :)
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by zevon 1y ago
The material thing is debatable. 3D printed Polyamide - possibly with a fibre filler - is really nice for phone cases, in my opinion. The surface texture is grippy, it's quite durable (and I like the look).

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