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  • I wouldn't call them super cheap though they depreciate a lot from the new prices. Lots of quality ICE cars of similar age at lower prices, i.e. they are still expensive cars.

    You can get fantastically good deals on used Fiskers. The company is bankrupt but there's a lively community of owners and getting stuff like repair parts isn't hard. I'm slightly tempted but only slightly. What I really want is an EV conversion for an old cargo van, so it would have very few computers inside.

  • What has it got in its pocketses? The One Ring.

  • Experts are dubious that he teleported to Waffle House. CNN investigation reveals it was really an IHOP.

  • PIC64 is a product line now? And it's Risc-V underneath? Interesting. PIC32 is/was MIPS-32 so I guess it fits.

  • I see, like putting the person on speaker phone. Not nice, but thanks!

  • I didn't hear a mention of this watch being usable for phone calls but if that's in the cards, then I guess that's a legitimate application, though I don't see how it would work. You hold your wrist up to your ear? Sounds painful. Is it somehow better than using an earbud? If you don't want to walk around wearing an earbud like a Borg when you're not on a call, maybe they could put an earbud holder onto the watchband. The watch could be shaped to accomodate the earbud and maybe even recharge it, if it's shaped like an Airpod.

  • There's a whole book about this, written (wow) all the way back in 1996. The Challenger Launch Decision, by Diane Vaughan. Technically a different incident, but it sounds like history repeats.

  • Yes and it's a constant issue, and there is tons of security stuff in the phone to deal with the mic's presence. I've elsewhere suggested making phones with no mics, so if you want to make a voice phone call you have to use an external mic. At least the phone has an important application that uses the mic.

    The mic in this watch seems to have been added to the hardware just because they could. But as they say, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

  • This is about a watch, not a phone. It looks like they added the mic as an afterthought.

  • Interesting but no mention of Guix. I'm still on the fence.

  • The crappy old Casio that I use now has no microphone and no wireless comms. Just an LCD and some pushbuttons.

  • Ugh, it has a microphone. Eavesdropping malware incoming. And it's another big clonky smartwatch.

    It's nice that it has a blood oxygen sensor I guess. And there's a 6d accelerometer. I don't see mention of a temperature sensor either, though with the wireless connectivity and presumed frequent recharging, I guess you can keep correcting the time.

    I still like the Sensorwatch (sensorwatch.net) better. Much more modest, smaller, etc. Runs for a year on a coin cell, has a temperature sensor which can used to correct the oscillator and give timing accuracy to within a few seconds a year, and other cool stuff.

  • "Read my lips, no new wars"?

  • Nice but doesn't sound self hosted.

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  • 2016 at this time of night? Probably typing on a computer.

    Now? Typing on a computer.

  • This looks AI, or at least blithering.