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New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Pixel Watch 5"

broadsidepicnic — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:50:45 +0000

Why no Qi support on any watch ever? Those chargers are becoming commonplace in hotels, cars and homes but every frigging watch have to have their own cradle for them?

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Pixel Watch 5"

broadsidepicnic — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:42:37 +0000

I'm using a cheap samsung watch, maybe 4? It's ages old at this point, but I need it to get contactless pay, I'm a sucker for it. I have multiple company and personal and virtual cards on it, and I don't like carrying a wallet everywhere with me.

What's specially shitty with using a wearos watch with an android phone is that clock's alarms etc do not sync, at least not between grapheneos <-> samsung galaxy watch 4. I have to use use turboclock which has a wearos app to get wakeup alarms to my watch.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Asus Bike Booster"

broadsidepicnic — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:05:51 +0000

Oh I like this idea. Looks simple and lightweight.

Expensive as f though. Also the gear-thingy looks proprietary (=expensive).

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:28:38 +0000

So when can I buy MI350s for my homelab?

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:01:37 +0000

Waste is/was a p2p client back in the 2000s

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "A Week in Matrix"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:50:04 +0000

I've hosted my own synapse since 2019, maybe even earlier. Its the same virtualized instance, all I've ever done is update it. Never had to reboot it other than due to updates.

Nothing in any logs?

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry"

broadsidepicnic — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:50:37 +0000

yeah well I make top 1% of income earners in my country, but yet I don't have any liquid(able) assets worth high five figures. House, if I'd sell it, would likely be worth less than I paid for it before pandemic. I couldn't really pay for lets say $200k treatment for next week. It might be the string that broke camel's back, a sinkhole I could never climb out of.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

broadsidepicnic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:08:22 +0000

Why? To know more to train AI and sell your info to third parties. To spearhead ads to you.

Why an earth would a big tech company say no to gather more info on its users? Show me the first one

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:05:43 +0000

what you maybe forget here is the use case for people and businesses who can not send the data to 3rd party due to privacy/contractual reasons. This is what I'm looking at, we're bound by strict policies for data sharing outside of our premises.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:39:57 +0000

> You don't own your fiber connection. So why try to own another rapidly depreciating, expensive, and annoying asset?

Single mode fiber can serve for tens of years without problems and push the fastest speeds available today. I do not understand this comparison.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

broadsidepicnic — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:27:22 +0000

Well, I didn't know it before I bought tesla (and have since sold it), but it's really convenient to pair the phone to the car and let it act as a key. I never had to worry about getting the keys, I just took my phone and it opened the doors.

Also I have to say, setting charge times remotely is mighty handy, if one pays the market/pool prices for electricity which fluctuate from hour to hour.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Ti-84 Evo"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:02:30 +0000

TI-86 is the one in my case. We had to buy it in high school, and I used it so much in high school and in university after (I still have it in a box), that it's the only calculator I've since used. I absolutely have to have a TI emulator on my phone, and have paid for multiple ones along the years.

I use my emulated TI-86 every other day, and prefer it to any other UI I've seen on calculators on phones.

When I have a laptop available, I of course use excel or wolfram alpha for anything demanding, but when on the go, I like my emulated TI-86.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

broadsidepicnic — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:02:17 +0000

Could we stop with the clickbaiting headlines?

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Airfare Is Just the Beginning"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:38:30 +0000

Any other mirrors? This doesnt by objective reports work everywhere..

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:35:58 +0000

Pilot here.

While I definitely approve this and consider the limit to be one too many, I wish ecigarettes would be rather the target as soon as possible. Those are dangerous, and lately the most potential culprit for lithium related problems aboard.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

broadsidepicnic — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:32:15 +0000

It's no regulation, per se. ICAO sets up rules and its up to member states to create regulation based on that.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

broadsidepicnic — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:23:39 +0000

Well, fuck snaps, that is.

Even though I've used ubuntu since 6.04, fuck snaps. I'm still stuck on Ubuntu even after 20 years. But fuck snaps.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra"

broadsidepicnic — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:20:18 +0000

How's the dex? It's close to the only thing I miss from samsungs, which I used good 15 years I guess before hopping onto grapheneos.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

broadsidepicnic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:50:01 +0000

One of the greatest things I miss from Samsung after some time with GrapheneOS is the dex.

The current provided desktop mode is rudimentary, and mostly working. But it has so much potential. We could have all in one device with us, and just plug that into an usb-c dock. Or watch things on big screens in hotels if a mouse emulation on touchscreen like samsung would be supported.

Or, as Samsung already has created this, maybe that could be somehow ported to GrapheneOS via some 3rd party patcher? I'd really like to use samsung clock and gallery, as well, as those are quite a lot better than AOSP ones.

I like GrapheneOS, and the promise of it. Just a few minor things and it would be awesome instead of really good.

New comment by broadsidepicnic in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

broadsidepicnic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:03:00 +0000

depends on work apps.

I've only found two apps that dont work on graphene so far (google wallet and x). Decided I'd be able to survive without them.