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Talk to the hand! Cause the face ain't listening.

They do, and I tried it, but it keeps crashing after completing a request (even a simple GET). Could just be that it doesn't like the Orange Pi it's running on, but other extensions work fine. I'll try it in VSCodium later.

I want to include this in the "cybersecurity tips" email newsletter thing we have to send out every quarter. 😆

Veren zol fun dir a blintse

Pretty decent unless there's a lot of animation / video in them. Calling, texting, looking up something on the internet, bank app, auth app, etc all work great. Some of the stock Android components don't work super great with it, though, like the quick action buttons (though, arguably, they don't work great on any Android phone either lol).

Feels sluggish at times but that's just the e-ink being what it is. I mostly treat it like a dumb phone that's also an e-reader.

If you need a good read, I highly recommend "Deep Space Nine: Millennium" trilogy. Weyoun is the big bad, naturally, and he's got all the smarm we know and love with a heaping helping of religious zealotry on top (he's literally Kai Weyoun in the book and is the combined worst parts of Kai Winn and Weyoun (except Weyoun 6).

I've always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.

Literally me for decades. My astigmatism wasn't diagnosed until 2-3 years ago despite yearly (or semi-yearly) visits to the optometrist. Thought that was just how lights looked in the dark lol.

I've gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.

I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one "distraction" the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it's got an e-ink screen).

Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025

I'm just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆

HomeAssistant is great if you can source locally-controllable accessories. I've got smart bulbs and plugs but they all run Tasmota and never leave my local network (not that they can on their isolated VLAN lol). They're just getting more difficult to source. Last I checked, Zigbee is the way to go.

I've been playing with an OrangePi zero 2w the last week and a half. Definitely fun if you don't mind occasionally frustrating lol.

100% this.

But also "We're shutting down the servers for iMow 1 after which it will become unusable and we will not release an SDK or OTA update to allow 3rd party firmware. Please visit your nearest retailer to purchase iMow 2 and we promise we won't do the same thing to it in 2 years.

I'm sure we're past that now and firmly in the "you're just gonna have to deal with it" phase.