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From a time when email was cool. Hard to distinguish from a good programmer.
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My PineTime's touchscreen just died after ~5 years. Super sad, as I was just about to finish a couple more PRs for the entire ecosystem (firmware, render-path, sim, emu) 🥺
Now I'm really not sure if I should just order another one or if I'll wait for the PineTime Pro - which is still several months away.
We started with binary, invented programming languages so we wouldn't have to think in binary. Then we built AIs so we wouldn't have to write those languages either. Now we describe code to an AI in English so it can eventually be turned back into... binary.
incredible efficiency gains all around! 👍
The 80s had it all figured out.
We just needed a few decades of bloat to appreciate it again 😆
Spreadsheets, but for people who use CSV and Ctrl+C 😍
"Sheets", a terminal based spreadsheet tool by @maaslalani
Check out the demo, this is pretty amazing!
So many fond memories of the Pre/Veer. Fairly open system, hardware keyboard, wireless charging, third party apps & an app-store. It was ahead of its time and yet somehow still a year or two too late.
I'm sorry, I have no further information beyond what is mentioned in the blog post.
Chips like the ESP32 or nRF52 don't typically come with built-in health sensors. Those are almost always external components regardless of the ecosystem.
You can absolutely hook sensors up to an ESP, but for something like a watch, power consumption becomes a pretty big constraint. That's where platforms like the nRF5x tend to make more sense.
On the one hand I get the frustration. Early Pine devices definitely lean heavily on the community. But I think the mismatch is expectations here?
Pine64 isn't really trying to ship polished consumer products like an Apple Watch.
Stuff like the PineTime is more of a dev platform you can actually afford and tinker with. I've had tons of fun hacking my watch and writing my own watch faces. If you go in expecting a finished product, then yeah, you'll probably be disappointed every time.