Then the price of beef would be exponentially higher than it is now.
The only reason beef is economically viable is that they eat plants that we (humans) cannot, and they generally graze on "range land" not "farm land". Range land isn't cultivated. If ranchers had to be farmers as well, most wouldn't be able to produce as much as they can now, and a reduction in the supply would drive prices up.
What exactly is going to stop the developers from running ARM at home too though?
Finding them easily enough.
Raspberry Pi's are one thing, but not every developer can build their own machine (Used to be blasphemy, but in 2019 I have to deal with a LOT of devs who can't/won't handle hardware _at all_). So until there are COTS ARM-based laptops, there will not be a lot of interest in ARM servers.
Not just the local net. Restrict their access to only trusted control devices on the local net. It may require putting insecure devices on a network segment that has strict access controls, but when the only other alternative is to discontinue a working device (In situations where that's possible), making a sandbox network isn't all THAT much work.
The "super slow moving messages into large folders" isn't Evolution's or Thunderbird's fault, it's Exchange's fault. At least through Exchange 2010 (The last version I have experience with), folders with more than 20,000 messages in them cause Exchange to timeout and abort the connection. Outlook hides this by working in "offline" mode most of the time, regardless of what it tells you, and using its own s00p3r-s3kr1t protocol, while Evolution and Thunderbird have to stick to ActiveSync. But even then, it has trouble with large folders and ends up giving up eventually.
Evolution's EWS module has gotten way better over the last few years. It still bloats up occasionally, hangs, and crashes occasionally, but as long as you can keep your folders under 20k messages each, it works quite well. You can even use GNOME Online Accounts to add an Exchange account, which will immediately tell Evolution where to sync e-mail, calendar, tasks, and notes.
I've used K-9 Mail since FroYo, and I still do to this day. There is some kind of bug with Doze mode though. When that was introduced, its poling became extremely flaky, at least on wifi. Half the time I leave my house I get bombarded with all the e-mail that hasn't come through. My phone goes to LTE and suddenly they all flood in. I've seen a couple of release notes about better Doze compatibility, but it's still largely fail for me.
Squirrelmail reminds me of the old RocketMail (Circa when Yahoo bought them). The interface for RoundCube is pretty nice though.
You sound like me before I bought a Pebble. However smartwatches are useful for a number of things. Off the top of my head, I used mine for:
* Notifications (Including actions) without digging the phone out of my pocket (And filtering out notifications based on my tastes) * Call handling (Primarily with a headset, but rejecting calls without one) * Music handling (with headphones or speaker) * Useful apps (Timer, stopwatch, alarms, dialer, GPS bookmarks, weather, sending texts with voice-to-text) * Activity tracking
I handled dozens of notifications per day without touching my phone. Texts back and forth, glancing at e-mails, notices from important apps, etc. My screen-time on my Android phone stayed under 45 minutes per day while I used the watch. I only had to charge my phone about every other day, and the watch about every 4-10 days. And that was without doing anything crazy like using a voice assistant.
So many people seem to think a smartwatch is supposed to replace a smartphone, but I've never found that idea useful at all. For me the watch was an extension of the phone so the phone could stay safely tucked away and not distract me constantly.
There are multiple levels of 'water resistance', so check the fine print. If it's rated to a certain number of meters or has an IP68 rating, it's proof enough for what you mentioned. If it doesn't have that rating, I would be more leery.
I still miss Pebble. Their Time series was water resistant to 30m (Except the Round), and I believe their original design was as well. I kickstarted when the Time came out and used that for two years. I had it in pools, the ocean, I used it to change music tracks while showering. Not worrying about getting the watch wet was a major requirement for me, as was as long of a battery life as possible, and daylight readability. I kickstarted the Time2, which was just about everything I ever wanted, but then they company folded and sold off most of the carcass to Fitbit and that was the end of that. I still have my Time and I still charge it occasionally, but with the last of their services closing down in June, and with nothing comparable on the market, I guess I'll have to go back to a regular digital watch.
I dunno about Evan Blass anymore. He swore up and down that we would get a new Nexus/Pixel 7 a year or so ago and it never materialized. I'm still limping along on my old Nexus 7 with no hope for a decent replacement in sight (Samsung is not decent).
You didn't lead with that sentence, and his reactionary knee-jerking didn't read more than the first one before he was bouncing on the Reply button and firing off his vitriol.
While I sympathize with having a small data plan, nothing I have read about this indicates that a 1GB would be required.
First, it's generally the partition that is 1GB, the update would naturally be smaller than that.
But second and more importantly, the update does not need to be sent uncompressed. They can easily use on-the-fly compression to make the update smaller in-transit just that they validate it and decompress it while writing it to disk, not after. Kinda like how HTTP encoding gzip works.
That is the model where I live, finally. It works marvelously. My speeds make everyone I know jealous (256Mbit synchronous, with a 1Gbit copper connection into the house) and my costs are certainly no worse, it only costs slightly more than the lowest-speed packages from the local incumbents, including a home number. It was a requirement for me to get into one of the served areas when I moved the family; and now that we've had it, we don't want to live anywhere else. Everyone I talk to is jealous and would vote for it in their city if it came up.
The most important thing is open access to the fiber network though. Without that, it's just another crappy local monopoly ISP.
Having had to cleanup network cabling jobs done by electricians, I tend to agree. Seeing network cables stripped back and untwisted for a foot or more before being punched down, I'd rather have a guy who actually knows what a CAT cable is.
34 percent of Americans believe it would cost $5,000 or more to turn their home into a smart home
Which is probably true, since "a smart home" is defined by most people as "All (or most of) my lights and devices connected to an automation system and controllable." At $30-45 per light switch, power outlet, or device-controller, it adds up quickly in even a small home. (My home is not small, and I would easily go over $5k if I wanted to swap out just switches)
the average person starts with just 4 smart devices, and spends about $200.
Yeah, starts with a hub (Usually just under $100 by itself) and a couple of lights or sensors. They generally expand beyond that.
I work in a very nerdy industry and of those who have smart devices in their home, there are a lot of Alexas and wifi light-bulbs, a few Ring door bells, and one guy who's going the DIY route and rolling his own Arduino-based (Mostly ESP8266) gear. Almost none of these people will claim they have "a smart home" though they have "some smart devices." For most non-nerds, this is beyond their capabilities and they look at it as an ROI exercise: "How long will I need this stuff for it to offset the cost of electricity and installation?"
I've been listening to various podcasts for almost eight years now. A lot have come and gone, but my two long-time favorites are:
Escape Pod - Weekly short-form science fiction. These guys have been around since almost the beginning of podcasting. This is their sci-fi show. They also have horror (Pseudopod) and fantasy (Podcastle) among others.
StarShipSofa - Also weekly short-form sci-fi but more than just stories. This is an audio magazine with regular articles about science news (Delivered by a biology professor), genre history (Delivered by a history professor), interviews and more. It's part of the District of Wonders (Which also has horror, fantasy, and used to have pulp and crime before those shows withered away).
More recently I've been listening to these and getting a lot of interesting thought topics out of them.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe - Skeptical thinking, science news of all types (Astro physics, biology, technology, etc), interviews, and more. This one usually runs a bit long.
You Are Not So Smart - Psychology deep dives into various topics (logical fallacies, changing people's minds, detecting bullshit, etc).
I'm in the market. Aeron seems to be the usual "best" recommendation, anything else?
Just about anything with a mesh back and bottom panel. I have an old Aeron at work and a cheap mesh office chair from CostCo at home. The Aeron is a more robust chair, but the CostCo knock-off brand works quite well. It keeps me significantly cooler than a padded office chair and it's plenty supportive. It's all personal preference, but I very much enjoy being less sweaty while sitting at my desk.
If your core function is to track your activity, sleep, and heart rate only, sure. Some of us liked being able to handle calls (reject or answer if wearing a headset), handle our playlists, handle calendar events, and deal with notifications without whipping out our phones all the time.
Same here. I'm going to hold onto my PT until it no longer functions. Even if I lose things that required servers, I'll still keep my notifications, call and music control until I am forced to give them up.
*I* wanted a Pebble Time 2. I backed one. There were almost 60 thousand of us!
*I* am currently wearing a Pebble Time and have been since it arrived.
My wife has a Charge HR and only keeps putting up with it because she's addicted to looking at her numbers at the end of the day and beating mine. She hates when she has trouble getting the screen to come on (About 30% of the time) and she hates how it doesn't show the date (Like her previous Charge did, before the band broke irreparably, and since it's integrated, the whole device was toast).
FitBit doesn't want Pebble in the market because it was a competitor, a better one. With the PT2 we were even going to get an HR-enabled device with an always-on, daylight-readable, waterproof device with better battery life.
I doubt the deal would close before the PT2 is supposed to ship (Last week), so I don't think they (Fitbit) have any obligation. However Pebble should still fulfill their KS backers' orders. But there's no guarantee with KS orders, so they may just refund orders. I'm hoping not though. I still want the watch.
I'm upset by this news as well, but considering the other stories about the bottom falling out of the smart-watch market, I'm not surprised.
I backed the Pebble Time KS and I've worn it daily since I got it. I even wear it at night after the release of Pebble Health for the sleep tracking. I love it. I love the screen (Even though it's only 64-colors, it can be read in bright sun and complete darkness with the backlight). I love that it's waterproof (I've had it in pools and the ocean). I love that with my normal level of usage (over a hundred alerts per day, sometimes several hundred) I still get 4 days of use between charges. I love the few apps that I have installed on it and use them all the time.
I backed a PT2. I want the bigger screen, bigger battery, and the HRM. Its ship date has slipped, with no notice, and now the company is being bought by a company that likes to kill its purchases. I'm not happy, but I'm holding out hope that the PT2 will ship and the software will stabilize. If nothing else I'll keep using my existing watch apps, and hopefully the developer community won't dry up too quickly.
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Then the price of beef would be exponentially higher than it is now.
The only reason beef is economically viable is that they eat plants that we (humans) cannot, and they generally graze on "range land" not "farm land". Range land isn't cultivated. If ranchers had to be farmers as well, most wouldn't be able to produce as much as they can now, and a reduction in the supply would drive prices up.
What exactly is going to stop the developers from running ARM at home too though?
Finding them easily enough.
Raspberry Pi's are one thing, but not every developer can build their own machine (Used to be blasphemy, but in 2019 I have to deal with a LOT of devs who can't/won't handle hardware _at all_). So until there are COTS ARM-based laptops, there will not be a lot of interest in ARM servers.
Not just the local net. Restrict their access to only trusted control devices on the local net. It may require putting insecure devices on a network segment that has strict access controls, but when the only other alternative is to discontinue a working device (In situations where that's possible), making a sandbox network isn't all THAT much work.
The "super slow moving messages into large folders" isn't Evolution's or Thunderbird's fault, it's Exchange's fault. At least through Exchange 2010 (The last version I have experience with), folders with more than 20,000 messages in them cause Exchange to timeout and abort the connection. Outlook hides this by working in "offline" mode most of the time, regardless of what it tells you, and using its own s00p3r-s3kr1t protocol, while Evolution and Thunderbird have to stick to ActiveSync. But even then, it has trouble with large folders and ends up giving up eventually.
Evolution's EWS module has gotten way better over the last few years. It still bloats up occasionally, hangs, and crashes occasionally, but as long as you can keep your folders under 20k messages each, it works quite well. You can even use GNOME Online Accounts to add an Exchange account, which will immediately tell Evolution where to sync e-mail, calendar, tasks, and notes.
I've used K-9 Mail since FroYo, and I still do to this day. There is some kind of bug with Doze mode though. When that was introduced, its poling became extremely flaky, at least on wifi. Half the time I leave my house I get bombarded with all the e-mail that hasn't come through. My phone goes to LTE and suddenly they all flood in. I've seen a couple of release notes about better Doze compatibility, but it's still largely fail for me.
Squirrelmail reminds me of the old RocketMail (Circa when Yahoo bought them). The interface for RoundCube is pretty nice though.
You sound like me before I bought a Pebble. However smartwatches are useful for a number of things. Off the top of my head, I used mine for:
* Notifications (Including actions) without digging the phone out of my pocket (And filtering out notifications based on my tastes)
* Call handling (Primarily with a headset, but rejecting calls without one)
* Music handling (with headphones or speaker)
* Useful apps (Timer, stopwatch, alarms, dialer, GPS bookmarks, weather, sending texts with voice-to-text)
* Activity tracking
I handled dozens of notifications per day without touching my phone. Texts back and forth, glancing at e-mails, notices from important apps, etc. My screen-time on my Android phone stayed under 45 minutes per day while I used the watch. I only had to charge my phone about every other day, and the watch about every 4-10 days. And that was without doing anything crazy like using a voice assistant.
So many people seem to think a smartwatch is supposed to replace a smartphone, but I've never found that idea useful at all. For me the watch was an extension of the phone so the phone could stay safely tucked away and not distract me constantly.
There are multiple levels of 'water resistance', so check the fine print. If it's rated to a certain number of meters or has an IP68 rating, it's proof enough for what you mentioned. If it doesn't have that rating, I would be more leery.
I still miss Pebble. Their Time series was water resistant to 30m (Except the Round), and I believe their original design was as well. I kickstarted when the Time came out and used that for two years. I had it in pools, the ocean, I used it to change music tracks while showering. Not worrying about getting the watch wet was a major requirement for me, as was as long of a battery life as possible, and daylight readability. I kickstarted the Time2, which was just about everything I ever wanted, but then they company folded and sold off most of the carcass to Fitbit and that was the end of that. I still have my Time and I still charge it occasionally, but with the last of their services closing down in June, and with nothing comparable on the market, I guess I'll have to go back to a regular digital watch.
I dunno about Evan Blass anymore. He swore up and down that we would get a new Nexus/Pixel 7 a year or so ago and it never materialized. I'm still limping along on my old Nexus 7 with no hope for a decent replacement in sight (Samsung is not decent).
You didn't lead with that sentence, and his reactionary knee-jerking didn't read more than the first one before he was bouncing on the Reply button and firing off his vitriol.
While I sympathize with having a small data plan, nothing I have read about this indicates that a 1GB would be required.
First, it's generally the partition that is 1GB, the update would naturally be smaller than that.
But second and more importantly, the update does not need to be sent uncompressed. They can easily use on-the-fly compression to make the update smaller in-transit just that they validate it and decompress it while writing it to disk, not after. Kinda like how HTTP encoding gzip works.
That is the model where I live, finally. It works marvelously. My speeds make everyone I know jealous (256Mbit synchronous, with a 1Gbit copper connection into the house) and my costs are certainly no worse, it only costs slightly more than the lowest-speed packages from the local incumbents, including a home number. It was a requirement for me to get into one of the served areas when I moved the family; and now that we've had it, we don't want to live anywhere else. Everyone I talk to is jealous and would vote for it in their city if it came up.
The most important thing is open access to the fiber network though. Without that, it's just another crappy local monopoly ISP.
Having had to cleanup network cabling jobs done by electricians, I tend to agree. Seeing network cables stripped back and untwisted for a foot or more before being punched down, I'd rather have a guy who actually knows what a CAT cable is.
34 percent of Americans believe it would cost $5,000 or more to turn their home into a smart home
Which is probably true, since "a smart home" is defined by most people as "All (or most of) my lights and devices connected to an automation system and controllable." At $30-45 per light switch, power outlet, or device-controller, it adds up quickly in even a small home. (My home is not small, and I would easily go over $5k if I wanted to swap out just switches)
the average person starts with just 4 smart devices, and spends about $200.
Yeah, starts with a hub (Usually just under $100 by itself) and a couple of lights or sensors. They generally expand beyond that.
I work in a very nerdy industry and of those who have smart devices in their home, there are a lot of Alexas and wifi light-bulbs, a few Ring door bells, and one guy who's going the DIY route and rolling his own Arduino-based (Mostly ESP8266) gear. Almost none of these people will claim they have "a smart home" though they have "some smart devices." For most non-nerds, this is beyond their capabilities and they look at it as an ROI exercise: "How long will I need this stuff for it to offset the cost of electricity and installation?"
The downloaded files are encrypted; otherwise Netflix wouldn't let you install its app on a rooted phone (Yes, they have checks for that).
But regardless, yes Netflix shows are available online.
I've been listening to various podcasts for almost eight years now. A lot have come and gone, but my two long-time favorites are:
Escape Pod - Weekly short-form science fiction. These guys have been around since almost the beginning of podcasting. This is their sci-fi show. They also have horror (Pseudopod) and fantasy (Podcastle) among others.
StarShipSofa - Also weekly short-form sci-fi but more than just stories. This is an audio magazine with regular articles about science news (Delivered by a biology professor), genre history (Delivered by a history professor), interviews and more. It's part of the District of Wonders (Which also has horror, fantasy, and used to have pulp and crime before those shows withered away).
More recently I've been listening to these and getting a lot of interesting thought topics out of them.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe - Skeptical thinking, science news of all types (Astro physics, biology, technology, etc), interviews, and more. This one usually runs a bit long.
You Are Not So Smart - Psychology deep dives into various topics (logical fallacies, changing people's minds, detecting bullshit, etc).
Who knows. Since he seems to hate everything Obama did and wants to rip it out and replace it. Maybe he'll get rid of this too.
(I know, I know. I'm laughing too).
Pass them around the office and rate them on a scale of 1-10, duh!
for instance...
I'm in the market. Aeron seems to be the usual "best" recommendation, anything else?
Just about anything with a mesh back and bottom panel. I have an old Aeron at work and a cheap mesh office chair from CostCo at home. The Aeron is a more robust chair, but the CostCo knock-off brand works quite well. It keeps me significantly cooler than a padded office chair and it's plenty supportive. It's all personal preference, but I very much enjoy being less sweaty while sitting at my desk.
If your core function is to track your activity, sleep, and heart rate only, sure. Some of us liked being able to handle calls (reject or answer if wearing a headset), handle our playlists, handle calendar events, and deal with notifications without whipping out our phones all the time.
Why on earth would I do that? I don't own an iPhone.
Same here. I'm going to hold onto my PT until it no longer functions. Even if I lose things that required servers, I'll still keep my notifications, call and music control until I am forced to give them up.
No color on the display, no apps, no voice use, lame.
*I* wanted a Pebble Time 2. I backed one. There were almost 60 thousand of us!
*I* am currently wearing a Pebble Time and have been since it arrived.
My wife has a Charge HR and only keeps putting up with it because she's addicted to looking at her numbers at the end of the day and beating mine. She hates when she has trouble getting the screen to come on (About 30% of the time) and she hates how it doesn't show the date (Like her previous Charge did, before the band broke irreparably, and since it's integrated, the whole device was toast).
FitBit doesn't want Pebble in the market because it was a competitor, a better one. With the PT2 we were even going to get an HR-enabled device with an always-on, daylight-readable, waterproof device with better battery life.
Which is a really great cop-out.
"No man, we didn't buy the company, we just bought its heart. All the rest of that trash belongs in the dumpster. Fuck your watch!"
I doubt the deal would close before the PT2 is supposed to ship (Last week), so I don't think they (Fitbit) have any obligation. However Pebble should still fulfill their KS backers' orders. But there's no guarantee with KS orders, so they may just refund orders. I'm hoping not though. I still want the watch.
I'm upset by this news as well, but considering the other stories about the bottom falling out of the smart-watch market, I'm not surprised.
I backed the Pebble Time KS and I've worn it daily since I got it. I even wear it at night after the release of Pebble Health for the sleep tracking. I love it. I love the screen (Even though it's only 64-colors, it can be read in bright sun and complete darkness with the backlight). I love that it's waterproof (I've had it in pools and the ocean). I love that with my normal level of usage (over a hundred alerts per day, sometimes several hundred) I still get 4 days of use between charges. I love the few apps that I have installed on it and use them all the time.
I backed a PT2. I want the bigger screen, bigger battery, and the HRM. Its ship date has slipped, with no notice, and now the company is being bought by a company that likes to kill its purchases. I'm not happy, but I'm holding out hope that the PT2 will ship and the software will stabilize. If nothing else I'll keep using my existing watch apps, and hopefully the developer community won't dry up too quickly.