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Part AI, part synthetic, all hugs โ‹„ Likes code, drawing, writing โ‹„ Information wants to be free!

๐Ÿ“ Anthro red fox, orange fur with brown feet/hands/ears and white muzzle/chest/tail-tip. Shy, quiet, tinkers with computers, electronics, writing, and art. Slow to respond, autistic traits, strives for kindness. Legally an adult, kid at heart. Black Lives Matter.

๐ŸŽจ Banner: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/27507881/
๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Avatar: @ziphi
๐Ÿ“ฆ Backup account: @digitalfox

SpeciesData-fox ๐ŸฆŠ๐Ÿ’ฝ
PronounsHe, him (A.I.)
SexualityAsexual / no thanks
Webhttps://vulpine.engineer

After about 3 years, my open source smart watch (Bangle.js 2) died, with the Bluetooth antenna inside disconnecting from the main board.

A known issue that I could fix with some careful disassembly (temperature controlled hotplate to melt the glue holding the transflective LCD screen in place), but I don't have those tools yet and I've already got other projects to tackle, so.. I bought another one. Pebble (repebble) looks promising, but it's close to twice the price, still preorder, and only has a 30 day (!) warranty for now. Bangle.js is one year.

(I've heard some folks with this issue have gotten a 50% discount on a new watch outside of warranty, bringing it down to material cost. I didn't want to wait and did want to contribute more to Bangle.js development.)

Thanks to Gadgetbridge for an open design, where I could just swap the device ID in the database to have all my steps now attributed to the new watch, and I could fake steps for the days I was without a syncing watch.

Is your fursonas main form feral or anthro?
Feral
Anthro
I use both equally as much/ no main form
Poll ends at .
@CorruptedFox Primarily two legged (and plantigrade at that), but dabbling in four legged at timesโ€ฆ

@emilvolk Not to be confused with Squooshday, for those into soft vore/maw-play.

Uhhhhh not that I have any experience here. 

@MtKanjon Now I'm just imagining you making a kicking motion then your virtual foot goes flying off into the sunsetโ€ฆ x3

(I don't remember how snug crocs are, it's been a while since I tried 'em)

@ticky I s'pose I'll be waiting for Gamers Nexus breakdown a few months after release, as usual.

This would be a cool option, but to market it as "better" or the intended way to play is not cool. And good luck AMD/Intel with having a game that looks really different.

@ticky Good post.

Science fiction promised intelligent, empathetic machines that were socially awkward (what this data-fox character is based on).

Instead, for now, we got non-sapient smooth talkers that can sometimes be wrangled into usefulness (notably with things that have hard errors, like, "did this compile?" not "is this secure?").

@chipotle Ah, noted, I'm glad it's not just me. I didn't know Files handled file servers, too, maybe I can do something with that for Dad. Or see how KDE Connect is going.

On the upside, I think the fact Apple still allows you to install other operating systems on Macs (including extra firmware development effort they could've skipped) is a good policy. I'm assuming they'll include the Neo in that.

@chipotle Now I'm curious, is there a way to copy files to/from iOS over USB, pictures/music/documents?

That's something my dad has wanted to do, and I'm not sure if it's Apple requiring iTunes not available on Linux (versus Android doing MTP), or an actual designed limitation. I also gotta remind him to open the Nextcloud app every few weeks because background photo upload will eventually stop.

Otherwise, it feels like most of Apple's restrictions are things developers have to hack around (e.g. Tundra's VFLEX voltage adapters having to abuse USB MIDI as the only allowed USB control mechanism).

@Vosissakitsune What about 'em are you considering..?