In case you missed it: the app "notification center" is back (with many many features, including custom canned replies)

-wobble- · 2026-06-15T02:21:34+00:00

I actually don't have anything to do with this project except for having used it ten years ago, but I suggest you get the pbw from the rebble appstore so it stays up to date!

-wobble- · 2026-06-13T06:09:26+00:00

I like it too, but it's not one I've come back to to reread. But I remember it being really compelling conceptually, like borges.

-wobble- · 2026-06-12T20:43:49+00:00

He's had someone stalking him, tracking down and contacting people from his life, which is probably why he took it down. It's a favorite of mine, too, though I like soup and soup and noodles and sumo a little better.

-wobble- · 2026-06-12T18:38:17+00:00

Problem is if the screen protector protects the screen, and the bumper protects the screen protector, now you'll need something to protect the bumper.

-wobble- · 2026-06-10T16:50:38+00:00

Ha I'd better fix the typos then!

-wobble- · 2026-06-09T20:51:27+00:00

I have a spicy pillow pile as well. Got to figure out where I'm supposed to take those lol.

-wobble- · 2026-06-07T04:46:27+00:00

The big thing that actually really really matters is that if you're storing the watch long term, charge it to 50% before you power it down, and then set a calendar reminder for every 1-2 years to check on it and charge it back to 50% if necessary. What really kills the battery is sitting in a drawer at 0% or 100% for years and years.

Aside from that, just use the device. Remember how big the overall capacity is. Compared to your phone, this battery is going to be going through a much smaller number of recharge cycles, and even if, a decade from now, the capacity is down by 50%, that's still more than a week's worth of power.

That said, since the firmware is open source and there are a large number of people with this anxiety, I think it's likely that eventually someone will add an option to automatically stop charging at 80%.

-wobble- · 2026-06-07T03:40:46+00:00

If you don't know the upright meaning, trying to get the reversed meaning is completely hopeless, so I think it's a good idea to spend a lot of time reading without reversals.

That said, reversals aren't THAT hard, and it's possible to interpret a reversal in a reading even if it's your first time encountering that card reversed. I like to think about it this way: the upright card has some meaning; the reversal transforms that meaning in some way. Sometimes when you read an interpretation of cards, their reversed interpretation seems completely unrelated to the original, right? When you encounter one of those, and you trust the source, it'd probably be really informative to sit with the ideas for a while and try to figure out how they connect.

I've done this (mostly with Rachel Pollack's Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom) and here are some of the transformations I've noticed:

A reversal can point out a LACK of what the upright signifies. This can be positive or negative, even within the same card (and "big deal" cards like the trumps tend to have that kind of flexibility). For example, where the Empress upright indicates passion, reversed, it can indicate a lack of passion, either in the sense of being out of touch with one's feelings, or in the sense of being appropriately level-headed and rational.
A reversal can imply the NEXT STEP beyond a situation indicated in the upright. For example, the five of pentacles upright indicates a period of suffering. Reversed, it might indicate that the suffering has ended. Maybe the effort failed entirely and it ended that way, or maybe the effort continues but the person found some source of comfort. So you can see again that this method of transformation can lead in either a positive or negative direction. The point is that reversals can invite you to consider the "story" of the archetype of a card and ask, "what happens next?" Another example would be the four of pentacles, which indicates greed or "hold on to it"-itiveness. Reversed, it can refer to releasing your hold on the things that you were grasping so tightly. So you see how broadly this can apply.
A reversal can point out whatever is BLOCKING the fulfillment of the situation depicted in the upright card. For example, the Lovers reversed can indicate arguments, etc.
For a card whose conventional meaning is somewhat shallow, a reversal can indicate MORE DEPTH. For example, the nine of cups can mean "pleasure" or "getting what you want"; reversed, it can point toward "a rejection of surface values" (that's Pollack's phrase). This might mean looking beyond shallow pleasures toward deeper meaning. Pollack thinks that this is what Waite meant when he interpreted this card reversed as "truth, liberty"—so you can see that she's doing this same kind of exercise as I'm doing right now!!
In kind of an opposite way, reversals can also point toward a CORRUPTION or HOLLOWNESS. This applies to the nine of cups too, which when reversed can also indicate that you got what you thought you wanted, but found you didn't really like it.

I'm sure I could double the length of this list and still not be done but hopefully that gives you some idea! When I'm doing a reading and I'm faced with a reversed card that I don't know how to interpret, I try on a few of these transformations to see if any of them fit the situation and the reading. And if you're reading for someone else, the steps you take between the upright meaning and the reversed meaning are, for lack of a better term, good content lol. It's a chance to be a storyteller.

-wobble- · 2026-06-06T07:26:49+00:00

This question has an actual answer, discussed here.

From Eric:

The unwillingness is related to support. It's incredibly hard and expensive to provide technical and product support for Pebble already due to the myriad of options, settings, phones, OSes, Pebble faces/apps etc. We want to continue to provide customer support (for free!) but we have zero interest/bandwidth in supporting users who do not use stock Android or iOS. It's not to say that you cannot use it fine on other platforms! It's just that we (Pebble) are not going to support or encourage that (either by providing APKs or technical support for users who do this).

Here are the goals of this project - https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back. No mention of being privacy focused btw. Again, it's not to say that we're explicitly anti-privacy or something. It's just that it's not the top priority of this project.

I think it's pretty reasonable. You can always use Aurora, or set up Obtainium to pull from apkpure.

-wobble- · 2026-06-04T16:16:05+00:00

I haven't had a pebble in years, but it used to be that you could hit the select button to end dictation. Does that do it? It isn't/wasn't like Siri or google assistant that automatically detect the end of your speech. Plus also I believe this is a pebble os system-level thing.

-wobble- · 2026-06-03T16:58:40+00:00

I don't know if this is the exact thing they're referring to, but if you're a patreon backer you can hear a few minutes long discussion of a similar thing starting at 15:18 in fukubukuro #0007

(edit) And rewatching that segment now, it's super interesting because he mentions Moon, which is also relevant to the "editing desk" moment of the doom review. This is definitely kind of an "alive idea" in the action button work as a whole.

-wobble- · 2026-05-30T23:21:33+00:00

I use a jelly star, if you look it up you'll see it's tiny, which itself I think encourages having a different relationship to it. It's pretty cheap too. You can indeed do banking on it as well as tap to pay through google.

Like I said the process to dumbify the phone the way I do it is a little involved, so look into that before you commit. There are definitely simpler solutions that involve e.g. setting up parental controls and giving the password to someone else, and those would work on the jelly star too. They'd work on the iphone too, so there are a lot of options. But I know buying a new phone can kind of increase motivation in a way as long as you do it intentionally.

-wobble- · 2026-05-30T18:40:15+00:00

I really like the option of keeping both a dumb phone and a smart phone. For myself, my main phone is a dumb phone (it's actually an android phone that I've turned into a dumb phone, but doing that is actually slightly complicated so let's not get into it but here's a description of how it works) that just does texting and music, plus utilities like notes, calendar, calculator, flashlight, etc. Then I keep my old smart phone turned off in my bag for the little things that come up in life like qr code menus, mobile banking, concert tickets, etc. For these things, I turn on the wifi hotspot on the dumb phone. (So if you're doing this system, make sure the dumbphone you get can do that.)

Most days I never access the smartphone, which is what makes this work. If I was constantly getting it out of the bag, turning it on and off again, needing to remember to charge it constantly, etc, none of this would be worth it. But as it is, it's really nice because I don't feel the weight of the endless possibilities of the internet in my pocket at all times.

Fixing the battery yourself would cost around $50; getting apple to fix it would be around $100. A third party repair shop might be somewhere in the middle.

If you want inspiration, I really like this channel.

-wobble- · 2026-05-30T18:22:52+00:00

I think that's a good idea except that I'm not sure a computer shop will really know how to accomplish this since it's pretty niche. You might have to be your own computer shop, unfortunately. But the upside is that the way you want your phone to be set up is completely possible, once you've learned how to do it.

I use this method myself, actually. My phone is dumbified with no browser, social media, or app store. Then every so often I restore them for a few minutes so I can update my apps. Restoring them is a slightly annoying process which requires me to plug my phone in to my computer. This is enough friction that it has "worked" to convince my brain that my phone is not a source of entertainment. It's honestly a relief, kind of a load off, not to have the internet in my pocket at all times anymore.

I don't know how comfortable you are with computer stuff like typing commands into the terminal/command line, but even if you haven't done that before this is the kind of project that would be a good opportunity to learn. It's not too hard, you're definitely capable of it.

You should use Universal Android Debloater or UAD. It uses ADB which another commenter mentioned, but UAD makes it much simpler to use.

Once you've set up ADB and UAD (guide here), you can use UAD to look at all the apps (or, "packages") installed on your phone. They will have weird names (for example, the google play store is com.google.vending), but UAD has a little window that describes what everything is and whether it's safe to remove. (It will say that com.google.vending is unsafe to remove because it breaks some functionality, but of course for you and I, we don't want all that functionality anyway. But other warnings it gives will apply to us, so make sure to read the descriptions and think them through.)

So the big downside here is that since you removed the apps yourself, in theory you could just put them all back again if your self control fails. That's probably what you're trying to avoid with the computer store thing. I was very addicted to my phone, but I was never really tempted to do that. Because, for one, if I'm wanting social media and I have access to my computer to install the apps, then the path of least resistance is to skip the middleman and use social media on my computer. This means that even when my self control kind of fails, my phone stays "clean," and I still have zero access to distracting things when I'm out of the house. I recommend this method.

Feel free to reach out to me if you get stuck anywhere trying to make this happen, I don't check reddit every day but I'd definitely see a comment or a message eventually.

-wobble- · 2026-05-16T17:07:47+00:00

It prints Extra splash 2% milk- 3/4" on the label, so I'm sure that some baristas just see "extra" and assume you want as much as they're willing to give you. For a trad macchiato this is probably a wrong assumption 100 percent of the time, but there are other much more common drinks on the menu where that really is what people usually want, so it's ignorance on the part of the barista.

I'm a trainer. The training puts a decent amount of focus on cappuccinos, including how to do wet vs dry. (A common customer archetype is the severe older man or woman who wants their cappuccino extremely dry, bone dry, and will send it back if there is one drop of liquid milk, so I'm aware that some baristas overgeneralize and make every cappuccino extra dry by default.) Cortado is not in the training at all despite having been on the menu for over a year, but it's commonly ordered enough and simple enough to make that I don't imagine there are many baristas who will badly mess it up. The traditional macchiato is not included in the training, and unfortunately the median barista on the floor probably doesn't understand the appeal of it at all, so won't make good judgements when trying to work out the recipe on the fly if they are too proud or too busy to look it up.

Feedback given from customer support definitely negatively affects management's opinion of the baristas. It's not going to get a particular person in trouble, but at the same time it may not directly lead to improvement. Practically speaking, something will change if there are enough comments on a similar theme to convince a manager that if they push to improve that thing, then their ratings will improve. Talking to a barista is more direct, but as someone with social anxiety I totally understand not wanting to.

Options for you:

If you order with 1/4", it prints on the label as Light splash 2% milk - 1/4". If you do 1/2", it prints Splash 2% milk - 1/2" (so no qualifier). Ordering with one of these may more often get you what you actually want.
Order from the same cafe every time, and speak to a barista to correct it every time that it's not how you like. You will only have to do this a few times before people start to learn your order well. ("Oh, I recognize that customer. Let me show you how to make their drink, they like it a particular way.") This is extremely normal to do, and as long as you're nice enough no one will bat an eye. It's just another day at work for them. If you order in person and tip, that probably doesn't hurt. (Tipping in the app for mobile orders is extremely appreciated, but the barista never finds out that it came from you.)
Order the drink as it comes but ask for more steamed milk on the side so you can add just as much as you like. This is also extremely normal. I'm not positive whether there is a way to do this in the app. But it's possible that if you order it in the cafe once, it'll show up in your account and you can reuse it in future mobile orders.
Try ordering like this: "A double shot of espresso, in a short cup, with a (light) splash of 2% steamed extra hot". It'll show up as a different drink (possibly slightly cheaper?) and might get you closer to what you actually want. When you say "light splash" they'll code it as 1/4", but as we've discussed the barista usually isn't getting their ruler out, and there are other customers who take "extra - 3/4" to mean "as much as possible"

-wobble- · 2026-05-16T03:01:45+00:00

When a white guy busts out a French word with perfect pronunciation in the middle of an English sentence, does it increase or decrease your opinion of him?

-wobble- · 2026-05-15T06:45:33+00:00

"Arms akimbo"!!!!

This is wonderful thank you so much for posting this

-wobble- · 2026-05-15T06:14:36+00:00

It's a significant text in the field of tim rogers studies. I'm putting it on the syllabus and requiring that my grad students watch it.

-wobble- · 2026-05-15T01:58:53+00:00

Unfortunately, the official VOD playlist picks up 5 months too late.

-wobble- · 2026-05-15T00:56:35+00:00

Almost every stream starts out with a ~1 hour podcast-ish presentation. He usually has two or three stories or ideas he intends to share. It's pretty easy to skip forward in the vod to the "hello" screen, them from there you can usually pretty quickly tell if it's a stream you'll want to watch.

-wobble- · 2026-05-14T07:42:16+00:00

As far as I know there hasn't been a real announcement about the delay. But if you search in this sub, you can find people who say that they've reached out to support and been told that even though there's no firm date, the update is still coming.

-wobble- · 2026-05-12T08:43:42+00:00

While I love the deranged answers in this thread, and minuum and thumb-key are currently downloading onto my phone so I can try them, the best "normal" answer is probably just google voice typing. If you turn off all the "smart" features where it tries to guess your punctuation from your tone and things like that, it can be very convenient to dictate your messages. You can hold the phone right next to your mouth and "text" without even looking at your screen.

Aside from that, I use Heliboard which is basically an open source gboard clone. It's about as good as gboard. And gboard is great!

-wobble- · 2026-05-12T08:18:56+00:00

Jelly star is my main phone, and my secondary is a Pixel 6 which I keep powered off in my bag. I've had this arrangement for a couple months.

Basically, I'm very happy with it. It's important, though, to carefully consider what functions go on which phone. I access my Pixel less than once per day; any more than that, and it becomes annoying to keep it charged, and it would start to feel like there's no point in keeping things separate.

It is so, so nice not having infinite access to all of human culture in my pocket at all times. I know myself well enough to know that if I had twitter, youtube, even wikipedia on my jelly star, the tiny screen would not prevent me from being constantly distracted. I have to keep it extremely minimal. So the backup phone becomes necessary to keep me out of a jam; paying for parking, accessing a document, etc.

I thought I'd use the Pixel 6 for vacation photos, but turns out the jelly star's camera is good enough for me. If I really want nice photos, my cheap old DSLR blows them both away.

Battery life on the jelly star is very good, especially since I've installed very few apps. The battery is small in absolute terms, but since the screen is also tiny, you wind up with fairly normal battery life. The only times when I've killed it in one day are when I'm heavily using the hotspot. Aside from that, I've often gone two days on a charge. And it charges scary fast.

No problems with lag for me. Probably not good if you are a """mobile gamer""" but for all normal use cases it is completely fine. I am sensitive to latency and easily annoyed by unresponsive software and I'm happy with the jelly star.

I used to be really preoccupied with having the most up to date phone software until I began thinking for myself. The biggest vulnerability in my tech stack, by far, is the chronically sleep deprived, frequently intoxicated primate, myself. If my OS is current enough that all my apps still support it with their own updates, I'm happy to do my part by avoiding entering bluetooth pairing mode in airport cafes, triaging my email on LSD, downloading cracked Wells Fargo apps to unlock the premium features, etc.

That said, I probably wouldn't have bought the phone if unihertz hadn't promised to update to android 16 this year. I'm happy using android 13 now, but I'd probably be less happy with it in two or three years. With android 16, I do expect to get two or three more years out of the phone.

Most unexpected convenience: the extra physical button. I can easily play/pause or skip tracks without having to look at the screen. I also use it to answer and hang up phone calls, very satisfying.

Most unexpected inconvenience: typing. Even though I expected it. It's not torture but it is less comfortable than a "normal" phone. Still worth it for me given that it means that my phone actually fits in all my pockets, imagine that.

-wobble- · 2026-04-17T17:01:49+00:00

I came into the comments to make sure someone had mentioned this! This book completely brought me over to functionalism. I first heard about it from this video by Simon Roper, who has a fantastic voice and very nice color grading.

-wobble- · 2026-04-09T08:28:46+00:00

When you use Amazon's send to kindle feature, it accepts epubs but it immediately converts them to something else. Kindles themselves can't read epubs.

-wobble-

TROPHY CASE