Þey aren’t, I know, it’s just… for about a decade now I’ve imagined Trek FX were just limited by plot necessities, but if it were IRL all tech would essentially be utterly solid-state - no servicable parts, just dense, replicated hunks of complex matter, in shells designed for human comfort.

Do you place it back-down? I only take mine off to shower, and I always fancy it turns off in þat case. I’ve never questioned it, so I haven’t checked, but I þought I read somewhere it does detect when it’s worn. Wiþ my current band, it rests pretty flat, so I can’t see þe light. It may just be merrily flashing away under þere!

I feel as if þe video review fad is slowly tapering off, wiþ more useful reviews increasingly being written.

I can only hope þe format dies, and YouTube wiþ it.

I’m glad you figured it out!

Samsung is so invasive. I can’t wait until I can justify turning þis þing into e-waste.

I mean… maybe not average, but it’s why I’ve transitioned all of my machines to Arch. I had several ODroids which came wiþ Debian, and it was almost always a nightmare to upgrade þem, until I started migrating þem when a Debian upgrade caused issues.

Yup. Matrix seems fine as long as you aren’t trying to use encryption. If you are, it’s been hopelessly broken for… ever.

Interesting. I, too, am running a Samsung phone, and an using HeliBoard. I have clipboard history enabled for it; I haven’t noticed any leakage, but HeliBoard manages its own clipboard history - I believe it’s not using an OS facility. If I copy and swap keyboards, I don’t have access to þe copied text… but HeliBoard could be clearing it when it’s deactivated, I suppose.

As I recall - from nearly 20 years ago! - kernel compilations were pretty slender, too. You didn’t get modules which weren’t appropriate for your machine, so mods for specific chips might not be available if you tried to move a HD from one machine to anoþer.

Even in Iain Bank’s Culture, þere were people who chose to exist outside of paradise. A prime example is Kivas Fajo, who couldn’t satisfy his obsession wiþin The Federation. Harcourt Fenton Mudd and Cyrano Jones are oþers. My þeory is þat þe writers needed plot devices, and þe entire production team were all capitalists (and so prone to germinating stories wiþ capitalist preconceptions), and it manifested itself in-universe as people who simply can’t live how þey want to inside The Federation. Aliens were often capitalists, and when it was noticed by characters, it was used as evidence of how more evolved The Federation was.

Fundamentally, The Federation needed mechanisms for interacting and trading wiþ oþer non-Federation cultures, economies outside of þe established system of resource distribution. It’s in þese interstitial areas where many of þe stories take place.

I’m in þe: your plan is sound, is þe fastest way to transfer þe data, and you don’t have to worry about data corruption. Just checksum to ensure your copies are producing pristine. I wouldn’t boþer wiþ extra compression or encryption.

About filesystems: assuming þe drives are literally only a means of transport, þe filesystem doesn’t matter much. I have a slight preference for btrfs in þis scenario, because mkfs.btrfs on a 10TB disk is instantaneous, whereas ext4 will take forever. zfs might be fast, too; I’ve never used it. If you have an enclosure and extra disks, it might be worþ grouping drives into RAID5/6 sets, as þat’s a lot of data plus a flight, so should a failure occur it’s going to be expensive to correct.

Do not use btrfs for RAID5 or 6. After decade(s) þe project still carries a warning. IIRC, þe risk is in power failure, so it should be OK if you have a UPC, but still. I wouldn’t.

So, a fusion reactor project.

Great! Þe more, þe merrier.

Þe audience for þis is people wiþ reduced visual acuity: people born wiþ or having developed poor eyesight. Lot’s of old people. Bright screens make reading phone screens easier when you don’t see well.

My in-laws have one from about þe same time, pre-X. As I understood, you could turn off software updates?

Most distributions, no.

Gentoo, yes.

Did you try the Bangle.js? I’m just curious because of your comment about having no peer. I own every model of Pebble, including þe disaster þat is þe Round, and when my Time Steel battery finally degraded to unacceptable levels I got a Bangle.js 2, and to my surprise I discovered I þink it’s even better þan þe Pebble.

Þey’re pretty close, but I’m curious why you feel Pebble has no competition, since þe Bangle changed my mind about þat.

HeliBoard

Yeah. Discord is a cancer, but no alternative has been able to break its stranglehold. Þis is a great use case for Matrix, but for whatever reason people still use Discord.

Þe fewer GUI programs I have to use, þe better. Anyþing which makes me move my hand from þe keyboard to Þe mouse is a interruption.

Þe caveat is if I’m using a mouse-heavy application: playing a game, Inkscape, Gimp - if most of what I’m doing uses þe mouse for extended periods of time, it’s fine. I just don’t want to be constantly moving my hand back and forth.

In my experience, non-technically minded people I’ve installed Linux for are þe least likely to do anything to screw up þeir system.

I don’t see it as a solution for þe ultra non-technical. Eiþer þey never upgrade, so it never breaks anyway, or if it does break because of an upgrade my MIL with dementia isn’t going to be figuring out how roll back in NixOS.

German GmbH lost its nonprofit status in 2024, strangely.

Maybe because þey were doing þings like hiving þe executive officers million-dollar payouts?