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Re:Google open-sources the Pebble OS on Monday January 27, 2025 @06:54PM (#42847276)
Try that URL again :)
Re:The future of Rebble on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:21PM (#42846417)
It was a transflective memory LCD, which Pebble marketed as "E-Paper" (not the same as E-Ink)
Re:The future of Rebble on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:20PM (#42846399)
Rebble is the open source infra that has been keeping Pebbles alive since ~2016. See: rebble.io and https://github.com/pebble-dev

(Disclaimer: I'm part of the team)

RePebble is a new thing by Eric, the original founder of Pebble and is unrelated to Rebble.

> Is Rebble making hardware as well as RePebble?

Potentially! We have always talked about it, but some of the announcements today have thrown us for a loop so plans are still being discussed.

> Is RePebble also open source and community owned like Rebble?

Remains to be seen, but if I had to guess it's unlikely.

Re:lldap: Light LDAP Implementation on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:44PM (#40949730)
Funny that the L in ldap stands for lightweight, and yet clearly there is interest in a lightweight version of what has become a somewhat bloated protocol.
Do you exit the vpn in the UK, or somewhere else?
Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal on Friday January 05, 2024 @07:40PM (#38887035)
As of Android 14 you cannot install apks if the sdk target version is too old. You must use adb with a special flag.
Re:Searching for 'Telegram' on Twitter is blocked on Monday December 12, 2022 @12:57PM (#33957814)
Not for me (UK)
Re:Show HN: Tracking my local bus with a RaspberryPi on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:59AM (#33465163)
Looks like it's been hugged to death. Archive.org link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221102223146/https://purplehoi...

Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch on Thursday November 03, 2022 @11:50AM (#33452889)
We'd love to offer something like that, but there's all kind of considerations around liability with repairs. Plus we're entirely run by volunteers, and watch repairs take a lot of time.

That being said, a store for refurbed Pebbles might be doable, but it would be a big time and cost overhead.

Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:44AM (#33450142)
The actual number of Pebble users is likely far higher, this is just the count we get from our side at Rebble.

There are more Pebble users out there using Gadgetbridge for example.

Re:The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video] on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:37AM (#32940431)
The first episode of the US office is pretty much a shot-for-shot remake of the first episode of the UK office. After that they diverged a fair bit.
Re:Our plans for Thunderbird on Android on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:17AM (#31725943)
Arguing for electron on hn? Brave.

(I like electron fwiw, it's enabled me to have a desktop experience with applications that would've otherwise never come to linux)

Re:The Modos Paper Laptop on Monday May 16, 2022 @04:37AM (#31394718)
I have a Onyx Boox Note Air, and it's amazing for reading / writing. I have an SSH app on it (it's Android) and the experience starts to fall apart there. I can type significantly faster than it can refresh and render the characters.

That being said I'm sure there's some magic you could do to reduce latency here if you tried. I know it does some magic behind the scenes with the drawing to improve responsiveness.

Re:Canon Camera Museum on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:32AM (#31246022)
Perhaps most interesting is the .canon tld
Re:Success and Failure at Pebble on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:40AM (#31012726)
Timeline is a (mostly) supported feature on Rebble!
Re:Success and Failure at Pebble on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:19AM (#31000696)
Check out rebble.io/howto to get started. If you have any questions we're on Discord[0]

[0]: https://rebble.io/discord

Re:Show HN: Login with HN (Unofficially) on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:54PM (#29924085)
> you can then use either TOTP or Email (if you specify both, it will default to using TOTP) to login thereafter to make things quicker (it can take up to a minute until profiles update).

I guess at this point it's more like login with loginwithhn?

Re:A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:56PM (#29345349)
Without a polarised plug it means current can 'flow' the 'wrong' way through the toaster, backwards through the heating coils.

Which is to say when the toaster is plugged in but off, the heating coils could still be live, and touching them would shock you.

I like this quote:

> 21 million bitcoins seems like a low limit to set. According to [0] the exchange rate is currently 221 Bitcoins per USD, so the total value of all possible bitcoins is only 95000USD.

Today 95000USD is worth 1.51BTC

Correct
Re:Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:01AM (#26100589)
Have you seen beeper?

https://www.beeperhq.com/

Re:Null on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:30AM (#25774708)
Perhaps it's 'allah'?
Re:Wyze $20 Smart Watch on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:57PM (#25270519)
I know you said you don't want a replaced battery, but if you were interested in doing the (fairly easy) battery replacement yourself, there's a link to where you can purchase a battery on Aliexpress here:

https://willow.systems/pebble/#hardware

Re:Wyze $20 Smart Watch on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @04:55PM (#25270505)
Pebble may be long gone, but there are plenty of people still using them with 90% of the functionality still intact!
Nothing from Youtube officially yet. Probably BGP.

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