and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.

We better get the preeminent scientist, Bart Simpson, to actually confirm this.

Online scam artists tend to do it, along with random emphasis. It just makes the person using it seem illiterate to me, but we’re not the target market.

Think dick pills, pick up artists, conspiracy theorists, and so on.

I only learned to touch type properly because I was bored one summer and went cold turkey and learned Colemak. Before that, I had this weird pseudo touch typing technique with some keys being touch typed and others not, and because of the muscle memory, it was difficult to change.

Batteries are likely to degrade over time, meaning you’ll eventually end up with a worthless ear bud on the left or right and the only solution will be to throw them out. These things are often pretty bad scoring on repairability metrics, and I can’t even blame the companies producing them here because they’re so small.

I’m hoping these start getting recycled for their batteries, like the EU has plans to do.

Anyway, I feel full size wireless headphones are somewhat less problematic as they have bigger batteries, and you can always fall back to wired use (in most cases). But the proprietary app concerns are definitely valid.

Userbenchmark have a long running grudge against AMD. I’m not sure why, but they therefore aren’t a trustworthy source.

The point is to harm people that have less power than you do. There’s a whole political ideology based around that idea.

A major improvement already happened in 5.2+ but few devices support it yet (LE Audio with LC3 codec).

No official Linux support, which means no Steam Deck support as well. Yes, there’s Legendary but I shouldn’t have to jump through those hoops.

They’re not going to be defended by the soy boys who want to feed the monsters.

He really is just the typical, always online, alt-right loser. Same as Steven Cheung accusing people of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” during the ongoing Arlington scandal.

nixos-anywhere also works well for this use case.

His name is Hans and drinking has ruined his life.

four- or five-episode series.

It was six episodes. That’s how much was needed to cover how much of a piece of shit Vince is.

Not at exactly the same time since the app and watch communicate over Bluetooth. You should be able to pair and repair between the apps, but I haven’t tested it myself.

Basically, gadgetbridge is a third party open-source application that replaces the manufacturer app for a bunch of fitness watches (and other devices of that kind).

So you can use it to replace the phone connectivity functions (like receiving notifications etc) as well as getting visualisations of the data etc. And since it all happens locally, none of your data is stored on the manufacturer’s servers. If you understand how to work with SQL and statistics, you can also run your own statistical analyses, since it’s just a sqlite DB.

The downside is that you can expect it to be limited in functionality compared to e.g. Garmin’s cloud functionality. Personally I find there’s enough data to be useful, but other’s might have different needs.

Garmin watches are now increasingly supported by GadgetBridge too, so you can have a fully offline setup.

It’s still a better option than using the Play store if you really need a newer build, but yeah, not my first choice.

There’s sometimes third party repos that are updated faster. Or you can use obtainium and get updates straight from github.

It’s pretty useful for systems you want to be reliable but don’t need too many customisations (like Bazzite on gaming machines).

Although if we’re counting NixOS, it’s the declarative config aspect that is the main selling point for me, with atomic updates just being part of it.

but it seems to me that i still need an account and connect my device to all those app in order for it to function.

It depends. Some devices are fully local and don’t require an account, some require an account temporarily and then never again (can use a throwaway email), some require an ongoing cloud connection.

I’d look into zigbee, since those devices inherently don’t connect with the outside world at all. Maybe Matter as well, although I don’t know enough about it to confirm.

I only buy Xiaomi phones because the bootloader is unlockable. The stock UI is eh.