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majesticmerc commented on Pebble Round 2   repebble.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/jackwilsdon
apparent · a month ago
I find the Garmin UI to be awful, and the Pebble UI to be a breeze. Also, Garmins are pretty bulky compared to Pebbles, and many of them don't have buttons that can be used to control music, for those of us who find touchscreen interfaces to be lacking.
majesticmerc · a month ago
Granted, the UI for Garmins is pretty clunky compared to the Pebble interface :(
majesticmerc commented on Pebble Round 2   repebble.com/blog/pebble-... · Posted by u/jackwilsdon
mrinterweb · a month ago
Pebble seems to be the only watch company that I feel understands what a smartwatch should be. It feels like everyone else is trying to make a phone replacement. Pebbles are more of an extension to your phone. Sure it can do some things without the phone, but it isn't trying to make calls, access mobile data with its own sim, use GPS. Those kinds of watches feel like they are designed for athletes who want to leave their phone at home. I'm not that guy. My phone comes with me everywhere, so why would I want phone-light on my wrist when my phone in my pocket can do it better?

Pebble also gets battery life. Pebble's 2 weeks compared to 1 day on my pixel watch 3. Want to use that cool sleep tracking feature on your smartwatch? Guess what? Its on the charger.

majesticmerc · a month ago
I'm a runner, so obviously biased, but I implore everyone (to the point of annoyance) to check out some of the cheaper Garmin smart watches. They use MIP displays so the battery life runs about 2 weeks, you get phone notifications, the ability to find your phone, sleep scoring, step counting, heart rate monitoring. Then there's the obvious GPS run recording which you don't have to use. There's more stuff as well but I don't really use that like NFC card payments, music controls, but overall it hits a nice balance of features versus battery life.

For the sake of fair comparison, my wife had an Apple watch, which looked better and had way more features, but the 1 day battery life became such a frustration it sat in a dresser drawer. My last Garmin lasted 5 years with daily use and sports, and only died because I took it into the sea on vacation after the waterproof seal failed on the screen. I replaced it the day I got back with the successor model and couldn't be happier.

I'm not shilling for Garmin (or at least not being paid to), I love the Pebbles and I'm very much looking forward to the launch as I want a more fashionable smartwatch. Apple, Samsung et al have kinda tainted the smartphone market with feature vomit, when in fact there's a lot of good stuff out there, it's just not as hip.

majesticmerc commented on A look at Firefox forks   lwn.net/Articles/1012453/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
adhamsalama · a year ago
Try Sidebery extension. It has nested tabs, workspaces and much much more.
majesticmerc · a year ago
I tried Sidebery for a couple of months off the back of multiple recommendations and while it has some decent features, I found it surprisingly lacking in terms of basic features like "close multiple tabs". I also found it regularly would semi-regularly prevent me from clicking on tabs which was frustrating until I restarted the extension or Firefox.

In the end I found good old Tree Style Tabs was better. I just wish it had an easier UX for creating named tab groups.

majesticmerc commented on Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana   calbryant.uk/blog/better-... · Posted by u/naggie
hnuser123456 · 2 years ago
Please do some measuring of core temperature response to load before and after re-pasting / upgrading the thermal compound. Something between a large grain of rice and a pea, and I like to clean the CPU and cooler cold plate completely, paste the CPU, then press and smear around the cooler onto the CPU before mounting it, to ensure full surface area coverage with a thin layer of compound.
majesticmerc · 2 years ago
Genuine question: I've known the law of "pea sized amount" for thermal paste for 20 years or so. Does it still hold true for modern (and larger) CPU dies? I haven't upgraded in a long time so genuinely don't know, but also wouldn't want to use outdated knowledge!
majesticmerc commented on What PWA Can Do Today   whatpwacando.today... · Posted by u/thunderbong
mvdtnz · 2 years ago
I tried two of the features at random (face detection and vibration). Face detection told me my device wasn't supported, and vibration just straight up didn't work. Then I tried to back out of the website and it wouldn't let me.

I'm on Android Firefox.

majesticmerc · 2 years ago
Same experience for me on Android Firefox. Couldn't return to HN via the back button, and most of the features were either "not supported" or just didn't work (e.g. Vibration)

Seems that either the author is only working in Chrome (which is probably reasonable for a prototype or whatever) or Firefox is lacking many of these features.

majesticmerc commented on Dump these insecure phone adapters because we're not fixing them, says Cisco   theregister.com/2023/05/0... · Posted by u/PeterCorless
bombcar · 3 years ago
We need a new word that means "Hello, can you hear me?" and one that means "Hi, yes we can."
majesticmerc · 3 years ago
Syn/ack

:-P

majesticmerc commented on Wii U Architecture   copetti.org/writings/cons... · Posted by u/flipacholas
m_st · 3 years ago
My reason to buy a Wii U back then was that whenever I found the time to play a video game, I had to go through a session of Windows Update, Steam update and game update that I lost interest by the time it was ready.

Compare that to the Wii U back then: Turn on and play.

Nintendo even achieved to keep this mindset with the Switch: It will update in the background so usually you just turn it on and play.

majesticmerc · 3 years ago
> Nintendo even achieved to keep this mindset with the Switch: It will update in the background so usually you just turn it on and play.

I don't agree. I play my switch maybe once every couple of weeks, and almost without fail there's a system or game update that it asks me to install.

Granted, _most_ updates can be put off for a while by hitting "update later", but I see very little difference between the consoles (and PCs) in terms of update behaviour these days, for better or worse.

majesticmerc commented on As Britain awaits a new prime minister, its cost-of-living crisis mounts   cbc.ca/news/world/britian... · Posted by u/vic-traill
Jochim · 3 years ago
Also in the UK. Personally I'm sick of seeing our government cosy up to authoritarian regimes because they have something we happen to want. In the UK we're particularly unlucky in that the people currently in charge don't really care if the poor in our society freeze or starve as they've stated so astutely in the recent leadership contest.

The rest of the G7 at least seem prepared to shield their population as much as possible through planning and government intervention, which is probably why they seem much less concerned.

On top of that, the answer to the pain of the current sanctions isn't to go back to relying on Russian gas. It's to pump covid levels of investment into alternatives that don't require us to prop up quasi-dictatorships in order to keep the lights on.

majesticmerc · 3 years ago
It's also worth remembering that Russian forces have committed an assassination [0] on UK soil using radioactive material, and attempted another one that was bungled and killed an innocent English police officer _in England_ [1].

The general feeling towards Russia in the UK is very hostile, and there are certainly a huge number of people happy to put the squeeze on Putin. There is little to no enthusiasm for appeasement here, and the pressure is on the government to ease the pressure on the vulnerable without bending over to Russian foreign policy.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yuli...

majesticmerc commented on Meta Rescinding Offers Now   linkedin.com/posts/zhuozh... · Posted by u/thereare5lights
_tom_ · 4 years ago
I received a "we have filled all positions" email from them and I have not been interviewing, or even responding to their emails.
majesticmerc · 4 years ago
Same. I had been casually talking with a Meta recruiter via email (no interesting opportunities discussed). This week I got an email telling me they were stopping contact because there were no jobs available anymore that fit my "experience and qualifications". I knew they had a hiring freeze recently, so I assume that is why I got that email.

u/majesticmerc

KarmaCake day83July 19, 2014View Original