JustEnoughDucks

It’s funny because this is also what happens with UK companies. Britwashing. They aren’t EU, they have bad privacy laws, they are more of a surveillance state than even the US, and they physically arrest and imprison people for online speech (and then arbitrarily setting rules e.g. arresting people for supporting Palestine). They are also a police state that especially targets threats to corporate interests like how police officers will literally go undercover and have sex with with climate activists to surveil and spy on them https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-56820122

Especially Unilever, for some reason people in this community seem to have a hard-on for it, even though it is not a great company.

I have written a more detailed comment on it before, but 2d printing is much more technically complicated than 3D printing, and the resolution is literally an order of magnitude difference (0.2mm vs <42um) and the printer has to print full color on any surface with microdots in a very very short time. People would throw the printer out if it took 10 minutes for a single paper like a large first layer takes in 3D printing.

Aldi here in Benelux has the “River” brand. That is what we buy.

Agrum soda is big here (grapefruit flavor).

They have very good tasting zero sugar drinks:

• Ice Tea (uncarbonated, this is our absolute staple)
• Cola
• Agrumes

Then they have sugar versions of

• Tonic
• Green Tea (Lipton green knockoff)
• Bitter lemon
• Cola
• Lemon Lime
• 4 lemons
• agrumes
• orange (fanta)

Quite the range, massively cheaper per liter than name brands, and small cans except for the ice tea to help not drink too much.

Mukishoes made in Portugal have some options if you like the wider barefoot shoes.

I bought the Raw Leather Brown this year and they have been awesome, but I can’t find them on their site anymore, only a white version.

That is very very very often also not the case. There are probably many shitty private companies as public.

See: Cargill, Koch industries, Schwartz group, state farm and pretty much every insurance company in the US, deloitte, publix, subway, McKinsey, Vitol, etc…

If its anything like my ID4, 400km in 70km or less braking traffic, and like 250km on the highway. Even less if it is raining.

I can’t imagine taking the buzz on a road trip if it is like that…

ICs, passives, and transistors. /thread.

There are 2 big IC designers in Europe: Nordic and ST, but I believe all of their production is in China and Taiwan. If trade crashes, we have the IP, but no way to manufacture at scale. IMEC here in Belgium has 4 small fabs, but there isn’t that much else and the workforce is expensive as fuck which is why they do research IC’s almost exclusively.

We have a lot of camera IC designing in the EU also, but they are almost all fabless. Luckily we have ASML who know everything technical about IC manufacturing.

We have less knowledge on how to actually mass produce ICs anymore efficiently even though we create all of the tools and methods here because everything is done in the east that will see any volume production. PCBs and assembly are already 2-3x as expensive.

In my opinion, we need huge subsidies to get component and IC scale fabs here.

The few things I don’t like about flatpaks (which become a problem on atomic distros that use almost all flatpak by design):

• Some types of embedded development is essentially impossible with flatpaks. Try getting the J-link software connected with nrftools and then everything linked to VScodium/codeoss

• Digital signing simply doesn’t work, won’t work for the foreseeable future, and is not planned to get working,

• Flatpaks sometimes have bugs for no reasons when their package-manager counterparts don’t (e.g. in KiCAD 8.0, the upper 20% or so of dialog boxes were unclickable with the mouse, but I could select and modify them with the keyboard, only the flatpak version)

• The status on whether it is still being actively developed or not (at least I hear a fair amount of drama surrounding it)

But besides those small things, it seem great to me.

How it works for some people is the chest strap would be detected by the fitness app (polar, strava, run keeper, opentracks, etc…) and then the activity would be recorded with the chest strap. Then the activity is either synced with google health connect or google fit, apple health, etc… So it shows up in your watch app overview.

“Smarter” smart watches I think can also connect themselves to the chest strap instead of the phone and the heart rate from the chest strap would “override” the watch’s that it then sends to the app, so you don’t have to sync with an external app. Though there might be more problems with compatibility even though all chest straps should use the standard Bluetooth “Heart Rate Service” to be completely interoperable.

Withings has barely better than a guess heart rate correlation during activity sadly, so not great for sports. But they look nice!

What you can also do (that many people do) is get whatever fitness watch that has the features that you want, then get the Polar H10 chest strap for working out, which is the gold standard for heart rate measurement and much more accurate than PPG measurement.

It would require an entire separate TPM chip, integration of it on the main PCB, and all the the firmware and software handling that comes with that, and collaboration with the GrapheneOS team (which I hear on forums and people who have worked with them, is often not a pleasant experience) for an extremely small percentage of their sales.

Doing /e/ or calyx would definitely be significantly easier.

I’m sorry. There are people who go to an adult hardcore porn site and then type in “Suitable for work”??? Like do you think the site wouldn’t get flagged at your work?

And you are often paying 140-200 for a pi nowadays to make it have the same usability as a laptop (pi, power supply, sata hat, data drive because SD cards simply fail after a while under server IO) while you can get cheap used laptops for 0-100.

So unless you are running it for more than half a decade (which rarely happens with selfhosters for a main server), you are probably spending more in total on the pi.

Holy shit I never knew that.

I really thought it was one of my apps that I used that wasn’t Foss because it was so useful.

Now I want to use it more!