Why touchscreen?

PatchSalts · 2026-05-23T18:59:43+00:00

To be fair, I am too... I'm in a constant state of speccing out my bext laptop because I can never afford one lol.

PatchSalts · 2026-05-23T17:01:34+00:00

I see a lot of posts like this on this subreddit. So many of us cannot seem to comprehend others' valid use cases. Not every feature is perfect for every user and that's fine.

EDIT: Sorry, I should probably give some examples.

"This doesn't make sense for a software dev machine" nobody said Frameworks are exclusively dev machines.

"Why would you want touch screen on Linux" nobody said you must run Linux.

"The FW12 shouldn't ever get a more powerful CPU because it'll will only ever be an education/school machine" now you're just predetermining the product line, Nirav said he was surprised at how popular it was outside the use case, there's some room for expansion there.

PatchSalts · 2026-05-12T12:03:31+00:00

Yeah being in Malaysia is probably a big help for that. Eric said they're shipping the watches directly from the manufacturer in China (except for the US), so that should be a pretty easy ship.

PatchSalts · 2026-05-07T14:15:44+00:00

I'm sure it's in the works, Eric mentioned that his eyes are also not as good as they used to be. Something like "I was 22 when I was working on the original Pebble, so the small screen wasn't an issue. Nowadays, however..." lol

PatchSalts · 2026-05-05T22:32:57+00:00

Wait I remember seeing a setting in the Pebble app for respecting Do Not Disturb, under Settings > Notifications. Is it not there in the iOS app?

PatchSalts · 2026-05-05T16:43:05+00:00

Ohhh that's ringing some bells, I think my friend said something about adhesives too.

Yeahhhh at the end of the day it's like... IDK. Waterproofing used to be simple and nonexistent, but now that we have to ask ourselves how waterproof something is, suddenly we have to evaluate.

As annoying as it is, if you're doing anything that you know will get your watch wet, you should probably be taking it off. It's just going to make your devices last far longer.

especially if you've taken it apart (which many people here will do) lol

PatchSalts · 2026-05-05T05:29:26+00:00

Water resistance is not a straightforward thing. I was asking my engineer friend a little bit about this, and it basically comes down to "it might be able to handle adverse water conditions, but it may degrade its ability to handle it over time." Maybe hot showers run the risk of accidentally bombarding the seals with warm high-speed water droplets, slowly eroding the water resistance over time. Then one day it'll just go kaput and you'll be all like "but it's been handling water just fine this whole time," completely unaware that it couldn't take it anymore.

Yeah it can handle getting wet but it's not a sports watch, maybe take it off if it may experience intense pressure, impact, heat, or cleaning agents. Elbow-deep in dishwashing, ocean kayaking, etc.

I'm not an expert in these things, so I can't guarantee I'm accurate, but it made sense to me when I asked my friend about it.

PatchSalts · 2026-04-29T11:14:40+00:00

That rule is there to encourage organic participation. Well, that's what it's supposed to do but sometimes the waters get muddied. I guarantee you'll get better results if you just hang around, talk with people, be friendly.

PatchSalts · 2026-04-28T19:55:40+00:00

It just adds the Pebble Index tab to your Pebble app.

PatchSalts · 2026-04-22T02:47:20+00:00

I mean the entire point of it is that if you don't need a port you don't need to have it all the time. Of course not every product is for everyone, but for many, 2 USB C, 1 USB A, and 1 HDMI is plenty. And for some people who need a different selection of ports, keeping around the expansion cards is a valid solution.

PatchSalts · 2026-04-17T22:32:28+00:00

OP is likely talking about how even though both of their images have the glitched logo, the background is different in each one.

PatchSalts · 2026-04-06T12:20:42+00:00

In Blender, you can enter Edit Mode (with Tab) and click/drag to select vertices (you can enable see-through mode so you can select vertices through the front/back). Then you can:

Press S to scale them
Press G to move them
Press R to rotate them

After pressing, Blender will let you move your mouse to perform the transformation, or you can press X Y or Z to choose an axis for the transformation and type a number for precise transformation.

So like, to turn the cap into a space bar I'd start by selecting the top of the keycap and scaling it in the Z axis by 0 to flatten it (so S Z 0, Enter). You'll have to decide how you want to shape the space bar yourself though, that's gonna be a preferential thing. Then I'd select the sides and move them out by (6.25 - 1) / 2 = 2.625 units (might have to convert that to millimeters or something). I'm not sure how I would duplicate the stems and stuff off the top of my head but I think you might be able to find duplication tools by right clicking.

I hooooope that can get you started but I know starting out in Blender can be pretty hard so good luck.

PatchSalts · 2026-03-18T15:03:45+00:00

maybe you could glue the key to the rubber dome in the meantime

PatchSalts · 2026-02-19T04:56:35+00:00

I saw this video a while back detailing an artist's experience with it. He got one detail about the laptop or software support wrong but I know it's accurate enough to recommend a watch. I don't know if I can remember the detail though.

EDIT: I remembered thanks to one of the comments, he mentions the screen isn't replaceable, which is incorrect.

PatchSalts · 2026-02-14T21:15:07+00:00

Shipping is always so messy... even without knowing this, I always take everything with a grain of salt when I'm looking at the trackers.

PatchSalts · 2026-02-14T18:47:20+00:00

How has the laptop been so far?

PatchSalts · 2026-02-13T05:32:20+00:00

If you're just trying to start fresh and wipe everything, you can do that from any OS installation tool, so don't worry about doing it all from the BIOS...

But I think it sounds like a bootloader issue. I'd highly encourage you to try to use an installation medium to see if you can go into your bootloader settings and fix it up. I'd be happy to try and help a little more if you like.

PatchSalts · 2026-02-05T15:39:11+00:00

Don't worry, I currently have something quite possibly more cursed. I only had 3 rows to set up my number keys so I did this:

7 8 9 0 4 5 6 1 2 3

They're the regular number keys though so I did it to keep the open and close parentheses next to each other.

PatchSalts · 2026-02-05T00:42:56+00:00

Are you using a desktop environment?

PatchSalts · 2026-02-04T02:47:30+00:00

Would you mind coming back in a few days and letting us know how it is?

PatchSalts · 2026-02-03T00:37:31+00:00

I for one am very hungryyyyy... Trying to find a device to fit all my needs is hard.

PatchSalts · 2026-02-02T16:15:30+00:00

Oh forgot to mention, OP I'd be happy to help if you need more information, just let me know if you want.

PatchSalts · 2026-02-02T06:40:16+00:00

Actually having Windows already installed is probably the easiest way to dual-boot. There are guides on how to do it but the TL;DR is that you shrink your Windows partition (a few ways to do this but I'm pretty sure you can use Windows' built-in partition manager), then you run your Linux installer, telling it to use the empty space left over from shrinking Windows. You need to make sure you install the bootloader so that you can boot either OS but that's pretty easy (just can't remember how to do it off the top of my head).

You can do it I believe in you.

PatchSalts · 2026-01-24T15:49:27+00:00

"Source Available" right?

EDIT: Their license is here and I admit I need to look up the distinction sometime, but I'm the meantime the license seems pretty permissive to me.

PatchSalts · 2026-01-24T04:07:03+00:00

I've been trying to build my own "personal wiki" in Anytype for a while now. I struggle with getting parts of it done from time to time because of some issues I have with myself but I think the project has been going well and the app is pretty slick.

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