Pebble Smartwatches have always-on e-ink displays. That's why they only need to be charged about once a week.
Mine is the cheapest model ($99) so it's just a monochrome e-ink display. It's never going to be for looking at videos. But a wrist-worn display will always be too small for that.
My watch is a watch. However, it will pull up notifications that come up on my phone if I want it to do that. So I can get notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket.
My smartwatch (a Pebble Steel) cost about the same amount as a FitBit. That was the clencher for me, because all the functions and features of a FitBit are installable as pebble apps. And it's open, so there are many choices of fitness Apps.
When my FitBit died I replaced it with a Pebble instead of buying another.
I bought my Pebble Steel when the FitBit that I bought (new, in sealed packaging) for $20 at a thrift store died. It probably died early because it sat in somebody's home long enough before I bought it and actually used it. I started looking at the alternatives to the FitBit (a FitBit One) when I discovered it was dead and wanted to start being a little bit more healthy with exercise.
It turned out that a Pebble Steel is about the same cost as a FitBit and it does additional things that I like. It's got timer and stopwatch functions that are real and practical on a wristwatch. Every other watch I have had with functions like that, the timer/stopwatch functions were sort of a joke.
There is also an SDK I can download, that I will be doing sometime soon. Pebbles aren't Android or Apple, they have their own operating system and host as bluetooth devices on Android or iOS, and are general purpose bluetooth devices and probably mate-able to Linux and other open OSes.
And at $99 they are relatively cheap. Not as cheap as the Casio watch that it replaced, but it's entirely waterproof, has a metal and gorilla glass case, and is pretty tough.
It's not jewelry by any stretch of the imagination. Slashdot isn't really a fashion site.
I would always want a watch that 'screams cheap.' It would be even better if it screamed 'keep the fuck away from me' to the sort of people who worry about bullshit like that.
You don't really *want* that in an electronic smart-watch. You want to use it now, and for the next several years. It's not jewelry, it's not a collectible.
I didn't think Slashdot was so fashion-crazy.
I thought this was sort of nerd-central. Nerds wear watches with useful functions.
I am not certain about two or five years from now, but I like having my Pebble Steel right now. It was only $99 and it's pretty nice. So far I have worn it about three months nearly 24/7 and the gorilla glass isn't scratched or marred at all. It needs to be charged about once a week and reminds me of that on the day when it wants to be charged 'this night.'
(2): A convenient, easy to trigger yet unlikely to be accidentally triggered mechanism to locally wipe the hardware. Factory reset plus cache clear should do the trick.
So if the police see you filming them at the scene, they can simply take your phone and trigger the wipe?
I hope Apple cares as much about privacy as they claim to,
You'd better hope, since you've chosen them as the singular wardens of your privacy. However, they've proven to have a rather strong political drive to support one ideology. Make sure you support the right ideas and candidates, at least in public.
If the world had to choose between electing Putin or H. Clinton as supreme world leader, it would be a tossup. We here in the US see all of Putin's bad press, they in Russia see all of Clinton/Obama's bad press. They are all essentially the same class of plutocrats.
Next several weeks? Try the next several years, if the anointed one manages to ascend to her throne.
That stuff isn't going away, and the opposition once she is inaugurated won't all be just Trump supporters. There are a lot of people, both on the left and the right, who will make it stick.
The key word there is 'almost'. Almost all startups fail in the end. People try things out and when they don't succeed, they are put out of business. The IP they create in the meantime is passed on to more capable people to continue trying with.
Tesla should come up with a rapid-battery-swap technology, so that on alternating days you use the battery that isn't being charged.
Now, that's a lot more expensive than just having your customers burn out their 'powerwall' battery bank quickly by fast charging from it each night. But it's more practical and efficient in the long run.
You can use off-the-shelf Android hardware without ever logging into Google on it. There are alternative app stores out there, including the big one Amazon hosts.
I am sure there is still plenty of Google survellience you are subjected to, but significantly less if you never, ever, log onto Google from your Android device.
You can also set your email client to delete the mail from the email server as soon as it's transferred to your local mail client. Your 'inbox' folder is on your own equipment and mail only sits on the public server long enough for your client to retrieve it.
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Pebble Smartwatches have always-on e-ink displays. That's why they only need to be charged about once a week.
Mine is the cheapest model ($99) so it's just a monochrome e-ink display. It's never going to be for looking at videos. But a wrist-worn display will always be too small for that.
My watch is a watch. However, it will pull up notifications that come up on my phone if I want it to do that. So I can get notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket.
It does almost nothing that my phone does.
My smartwatch (a Pebble Steel) cost about the same amount as a FitBit. That was the clencher for me, because all the functions and features of a FitBit are installable as pebble apps. And it's open, so there are many choices of fitness Apps.
When my FitBit died I replaced it with a Pebble instead of buying another.
We here at Slashdot are the nerds you picked on in High School.
Shouldn't you be on 4Chan or somewhere like that?
I bought my Pebble Steel when the FitBit that I bought (new, in sealed packaging) for $20 at a thrift store died. It probably died early because it sat in somebody's home long enough before I bought it and actually used it. I started looking at the alternatives to the FitBit (a FitBit One) when I discovered it was dead and wanted to start being a little bit more healthy with exercise.
It turned out that a Pebble Steel is about the same cost as a FitBit and it does additional things that I like. It's got timer and stopwatch functions that are real and practical on a wristwatch. Every other watch I have had with functions like that, the timer/stopwatch functions were sort of a joke.
There is also an SDK I can download, that I will be doing sometime soon. Pebbles aren't Android or Apple, they have their own operating system and host as bluetooth devices on Android or iOS, and are general purpose bluetooth devices and probably mate-able to Linux and other open OSes.
And at $99 they are relatively cheap. Not as cheap as the Casio watch that it replaced, but it's entirely waterproof, has a metal and gorilla glass case, and is pretty tough.
It's not jewelry by any stretch of the imagination. Slashdot isn't really a fashion site.
I would always want a watch that 'screams cheap.' It would be even better if it screamed 'keep the fuck away from me' to the sort of people who worry about bullshit like that.
You don't really *want* that in an electronic smart-watch. You want to use it now, and for the next several years. It's not jewelry, it's not a collectible.
I didn't think Slashdot was so fashion-crazy.
I thought this was sort of nerd-central. Nerds wear watches with useful functions.
This isn't, or wasn't, an 'IT' site.
I am not certain about two or five years from now, but I like having my Pebble Steel right now. It was only $99 and it's pretty nice. So far I have worn it about three months nearly 24/7 and the gorilla glass isn't scratched or marred at all. It needs to be charged about once a week and reminds me of that on the day when it wants to be charged 'this night.'
Web designers don't "do it right".
They think they are running Aldus Pagemaker.
Who are these others out catching the fish you were intending to catch? More cops? Your analogy just self-destructed.
They used to do stuff like that in the Old South.
Maybe you're wishing for something that some of us would oppose.
So if the police see you filming them at the scene, they can simply take your phone and trigger the wipe?
I hope Apple cares as much about privacy as they claim to,
You'd better hope, since you've chosen them as the singular wardens of your privacy. However, they've proven to have a rather strong political drive to support one ideology. Make sure you support the right ideas and candidates, at least in public.
Busses are cheap.
The Bushes are voting for Clinton this time around.
Go figure. It's not because Trump is a 'disaster'. It's because he doesn't represent their political class. Hillary does.
If the world had to choose between electing Putin or H. Clinton as supreme world leader, it would be a tossup. We here in the US see all of Putin's bad press, they in Russia see all of Clinton/Obama's bad press. They are all essentially the same class of plutocrats.
As long as nobody in the 'Mainstream Media' says it happened, it didn't happen. No matter what evidence might exist.
In Russia in the 1950's, as long as it wasn't published in Pravda, it didn't happen.
You're always here, and always with a reason we should just laugh off all this negative stuff.
Do they give you a bonus in addition to the stipend for working the phone banks?
Next several weeks? Try the next several years, if the anointed one manages to ascend to her throne.
That stuff isn't going away, and the opposition once she is inaugurated won't all be just Trump supporters. There are a lot of people, both on the left and the right, who will make it stick.
The key word there is 'almost'. Almost all startups fail in the end. People try things out and when they don't succeed, they are put out of business. The IP they create in the meantime is passed on to more capable people to continue trying with.
Tesla should come up with a rapid-battery-swap technology, so that on alternating days you use the battery that isn't being charged.
Now, that's a lot more expensive than just having your customers burn out their 'powerwall' battery bank quickly by fast charging from it each night. But it's more practical and efficient in the long run.
The car is indirectly responsible for emissions, though.
And so Tesla should quit making 'zero emissions' vehicle claims.
There should be a big fat footnote after said 'claims,' which could help advocate for further reduced emissions in our electric generating capacity.
Otherwise they're just lying for purposes of hype and marketing.
My Noscript blocks Google Analytics. It's surprising how many sites have links to it for no known purpose.
You can use off-the-shelf Android hardware without ever logging into Google on it. There are alternative app stores out there, including the big one Amazon hosts.
I am sure there is still plenty of Google survellience you are subjected to, but significantly less if you never, ever, log onto Google from your Android device.
You can also set your email client to delete the mail from the email server as soon as it's transferred to your local mail client. Your 'inbox' folder is on your own equipment and mail only sits on the public server long enough for your client to retrieve it.