It would be awesome if Polar was supported by GadgetBridge, because then you could have fully offline and private control of the device.
GB recently got Garmin support and it’s pretty solid. I switched from the Garmin app to GB exclusively and haven’t lost really any features. Besides the social networking, but that omission is a feature, not a bug.
If it’s really 3rd party friendly, I wonder how easy it would be to get support.
Thanks, I hate it
To be fair, I have a buddy who works at square. He said that the CEO is actually really passionate about Tidal.
Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?
Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn’t necessarily be “federated”, but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else’s hosted version (probably for a price).
“Hey hey wait. Let’s throw in one It’s Not Unusual”
While I’m all for having local services like search engines. I don’t think we need more “messaging platform” services. At least not new complete platforms. I’d argue something like a Canadian popularized Matrix host or something.
Full disclosure, I’m American but fully support not depending on us. We fucking suck.
Maybe that’s the 3D chess move that orange man did when he appointed RFK
I started on Voyager. Didn’t love it, tried Thunder and it’s fantastic.
Off topic: how do you like simplex. I have heard of it, but you’re the first I’ve encountered who used it.
Cool, thanks for sharing those. The cam lock looks solid. The klick-fix system that two wheel uses is solid, however it’s popped off once
Two Wheel Cycle Gear? If so, I absolutely love them. I have a one of the convertible pannier backpacks, and absolutely love it.
Matrix is a new-ish decentralized, private, E2EE encryption protocol. It’s pretty neat. It still has some issues (at least that I experience. Mainly the Android app is constantly being super slow to receive messages), but it’s super promising.
They also have some goals to improve email infrastructure by integrating the matrix protocol, but not sure if that will go anywhere. I remember reading this off hand remark on their blog. Can’t find the source.
As the original comment said, there’s the concept ifa “bridge” which allows you to bridge other services to a matrix chat. So you could have a discord channel and matrix room bridged, as an example. A ready to go option with bridges is Beeper. But you can also setup your own stuff, as they said.
Are you trying to remember the comedian this joke is from? If so, it’s John Mulaney in The Top Part
I wonder if people just saw it in their feeds and didn’t see the community? Since with just a few words into this comment I knew exactly what episode you were talking about… And I am sure that if I had seen your meme on chevron7 without the added context I would’ve known immediately. Since those are such a good couple of episodes
Don’t have a good rec to add to the discussion of hardware, but I would love to give a shoutout to GadgetBridge, which is an Open Source Android app that is a vendorless alternative to controlling lots of smart wearables (and other gadgets). It doesn’t currently have Polar support, but seems that might be fairly easy to implement, since polar publishes their SDK online (and presumably the protocol with which it communicates).