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New comment by will0 in "Google open-sources the Pebble OS"

will0 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:54:12 +0000

Try that URL again :)

New comment by will0 in "The future of Rebble"

will0 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:21:11 +0000

It was a transflective memory LCD, which Pebble marketed as "E-Paper" (not the same as E-Ink)

New comment by will0 in "The future of Rebble"

will0 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:20:06 +0000

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.

The future of Rebble

will0 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:03:22 +0000

https://github.com/google/pebble

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845017

Points: 381

# Comments: 27

New comment by will0 in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

will0 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:10:58 +0000

Looks like it changed a month ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1doc3pt/updating...

New comment by will0 in "lldap: Light LDAP Implementation"

will0 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:44:43 +0000

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.

New comment by will0 in "UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition"

will0 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:33:13 +0000

Do you exit the vpn in the UK, or somewhere else?

New comment by will0 in "An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)"

will0 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:40:43 +0000

As of Android 14 you cannot install apks if the sdk target version is too old. You must use adb with a special flag.

New comment by will0 in "Searching for 'Telegram' on Twitter is blocked"

will0 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:57:26 +0000

Not for me (UK)

New comment by will0 in "Show HN: Tracking my local bus with a RaspberryPi"

will0 — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:59:04 +0000

Looks like it's been hugged to death. Archive.org link:

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

New comment by will0 in "Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch"

will0 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:50:40 +0000

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.

New comment by will0 in "Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch"

will0 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:44:12 +0000

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.

Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch

will0 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:37:04 +0000

Article URL: https://rebble.io/2022/11/02/rebble-hackathon.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449159

Points: 513

# Comments: 393

New comment by will0 in "The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]"

will0 — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:37:47 +0000

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.

New comment by will0 in "Thank HN: Five months ago, I was feeling like a loser, now I am opposite"

will0 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 09:07:46 +0000

Why?

New comment by will0 in "Our plans for Thunderbird on Android"

will0 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:17:47 +0000

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)

New comment by will0 in "The Modos Paper Laptop"

will0 — Mon, 16 May 2022 08:37:00 +0000

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.

New comment by will0 in "Canon Camera Museum"

will0 — Tue, 03 May 2022 08:32:57 +0000

Perhaps most interesting is the .canon tld

New comment by will0 in "Success and Failure at Pebble"

will0 — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:40:41 +0000

Timeline is a (mostly) supported feature on Rebble!

New comment by will0 in "Success and Failure at Pebble"

will0 — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:19:06 +0000

Check out rebble.io/howto to get started. If you have any questions we're on Discord[0]

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