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Do you happen to own one? If yes, how do you feel about it?
For example, in the PineTime there is a heart rate monitor, but it’s too slow and imprecise. Notifications work great, and the battery lasts 20 days or more. How about the Bangle.js 2?
https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/
Be warned though, the hearth rate monitor doesn’t work particularly well. And there is no sleep tracking afaik.
If you’d prefer something more reliable (but less open), GadgetBridge is an Android app to interface with commercial smart watches through reverse-engineered protocols.
For reference, this is what the “Checking for Updates” page on the Pop!_OS store looks like for me. This icon feels out of place, that’s why I assumed this is a placeholder that replaced the correct icon that went missing due to some kind of minor problem with my installation.
I assumed that’s the “no icon” placeholder for Gnome. I saw it around as well.
GrapheneOS is certainly on my wishlist too, but Pixels are quite pricey. I guess Rethink is the poor man’s version. Just a per-app firewall.
You should install Rethink and see how much garbage your phone constantly transmits and receives. And this is not even a kernel-level firewall, so who knows how much data Google actually exfiltrates…
I don’t know about a constant audio stream, nor about keywords, but I noticed that Google Keyboard sends out some data every time you type anything. It’s not even that subtle.
Can you see at least GRUB, or nothing at all?
If you can see GRUB I would try booting with the “nosplash” kernel option, which causes video drivers to be loaded later.
This is a temporary fix, as it might cause other issues, but if it makes the screen work it will be a step in the right direction.
Isn’t rescaling usually done by the display driver? I am fairly certain this is the case for external displays. Are laptop displays any different?
Edit: with “display driver” I mean the hardware chip behind the display panel, dedicated to converting a video signal to the electrical signals necessary to turn on the individual pixels.
As a web developer, I noticed that some elements such as very big tables struggle to render on 4K but are absolutely fine at 1080p. I would assume that means the CPU and/or GPU are more taxed to draw at higher resolution, and therefore I assume they would draw more power. I might be mistaken. Do you speak by experience?
VM startup time can be skipped by saving state instead of shutting it down every time.
I would say the worst issue using a VM is with programs that need the GPU (e.g. CAD softwares or games), and software with aggressive DRM.
1099$, seriously? 😅