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New comment by brewtide in "A programmable watch you can actually wear"

brewtide — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:09:59 +0000

Galaxy watch 7 (I think) weather here. Also about 30 hours. It's a charge every day thing, but allowing for some forgetfulness. It's not ideal, but it's manageable and certainly functional.

New comment by brewtide in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

brewtide — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:52:45 +0000

I literally just put the meshtastic antenna on the roof today, in an old services box. Been in the window for months, had a few weird perfect weather moments show a few nodes and a ping. Put it on the roof, hours ago, nothing yet.

Someone has to start up the area! (I live in nowhere maine).

New comment by brewtide in "Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users"

brewtide — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:42:53 +0000

Bingo. This same scenario with IOT hardware/software requirements and the ever changing software updates where features get added/removed (and firmware), etc would have so many here up in arms!

Oddly, less (vocal) arms on this specific case.

New comment by brewtide in "The Beauty of Bonsai Styles"

brewtide — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:41:48 +0000

I've long wanted to 'get into bonsai' and had mentioned this 'bonsai retirement plan' to my middle-school aged kids (who are also very intrigued by bonsai...) -- Nice to see that my assumed 'silly' concept is likely not the worst 'investment' concept and shared by others! (With all of the real world benefits of learning and appreciation of time all wrapped up together!)

New comment by brewtide in "How to Make a Sliding, Self-Locking, and Predator-Proof Chicken Coop Door (2020)"

brewtide — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:18:06 +0000

I have a radio controlled chicken door that I control through home assistant via a hack rf. It has a reed switch placed behind the door, and a magnet attached to the door to let you know door status, with failure stating "open".

And then a reminder sent to my phone 10 minutes past dusk to shut the door, if it is still open at that time.

It's rigged but the confirmation is nice.

Edit: most of sensors run by esp32 boards running esphome. Also include a temp sensor etc, fed into home assistant

New comment by brewtide in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

brewtide — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:56:08 +0000

Once again, communication remains key.

New comment by brewtide in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

brewtide — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:51:31 +0000

My framework 13 fingerprint scanner worked immediately out of the box.

New comment by brewtide in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

brewtide — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:18:41 +0000

Frigate NVR tied to a home assistant instance has my phone getting proactive notifications about people, birds, and buses (in their select areas...). It's not the easiest thing to setup, but if you're using ethernet cameras it seems to work very very well. The few POS wyze cameras's I have on the system tend to cause some problems, but I know for a fact it's 100% a combination of a) wifi (no matter how 'quality') b) wyze.

So, yeah. Look into frigate.

New comment by brewtide in "A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)"

brewtide — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:31:23 +0000

I know 30+ years ago as I kid I learned this in my parents basement as I was rigging something up.

It is more the surprise, as if one is ignorant to this fact it is not expected at all.

New comment by brewtide in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

brewtide — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:38:21 +0000

Or maybe they were going right away, taking the initiative and removing the ambiguity from the situation. =)

New comment by brewtide in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

brewtide — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:00:57 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, I've got a perhaps Galaxy Watch 7 from almost a year ago or so running wearOS, and it's battery life is at best at the 36 hour mark regardless. Came from an older tizen-based watch with similar battery life, and at least wearOS is far more funtional.

New comment by brewtide in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

brewtide — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:28:17 +0000

Recently bought a GE oven. It had a minor problem and had a few service appointments. Not a huge deal, life moves on.

Meanwhile, near immediately, they would love a review! They want Participation in OUR new oven.

It's overwhelming, and most frustrating is it seems 'communication' is rapidly become a one way st.

New comment by brewtide in "Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005)"

brewtide — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:59:28 +0000

"just because you are offended doesn't mean you are right".

It's the modern day way. Perhaps the online filter bubbles over the past... Long while... Have finally shown their long term real world impacts.

New comment by brewtide in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

brewtide — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:09:28 +0000

I've rocked pixels for a good while now, but the Xperia lineup has always been something I've really debated.

My largest concern is camera quality: obviously it is Sony, but if you wouldn't mind, could you elaborate on their camera 'stack' a bit (esp. in relation to pixel phones if you have first hand experience...).

New comment by brewtide in "Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server"

brewtide — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 15:50:35 +0000

3.5" floppies that you would put scotch tape over to save your homework assignments on, to show your prowess in hypercard on the Mac classic.

New comment by brewtide in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

brewtide — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:41:03 +0000

https://github.com/LeoDJ/FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus?tab=readme-ov...

I've yet to build one, but this project looks very interesting in that regard.

New comment by brewtide in "Nvidia Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce Now Subscriptions"

brewtide — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:05:00 +0000

"The 100-hour limit can only be avoided if you have a Founders Edition subscription. This is a special plan that was available when GeForce NOW first launched. Founders Edition users get unlimited playtime and other perks. However, Nvidia stopped new sign-ups for this plan about a year after launch, but existing users were allowed to keep it. "

elsewhere https://www.pcguide.com/news/geforce-now-members-left-extrem...

New comment by brewtide in "Nvidia Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce Now Subscriptions"

brewtide — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:03:11 +0000

I barely even game, but I have a founder's edition (i think that's what they call them) account that's held at a low monthly rate. I wonder if this applies to those accounts?

It would have zero bearing on my life, but I am curious. Doesn't seem the article mentions it.

New comment by brewtide in "Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo"

brewtide — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:16:16 +0000

2010 xc60 (turbo online 6) here a few thousand miles away from 300k...

It's got a few issues, but the thing has been a beast. Not sure how Chinese it is however.

New comment by brewtide in "NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models"

brewtide — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:09:35 +0000

That's precisely when, (insert hand wavy motion), we should use any of this.