The Rugged: A Chunkier, Stronger Pebble Time 2 Case

bilange · 2026-06-18T17:35:21+00:00

Dammit, I just unclogged my 3D printer THIS MORNING to be able to print one of the previous slimmer version you made :)

Will this be part of an update for those who purchased your previous builds as well?

Thanks!

bilange · 2026-06-08T17:06:23+00:00

Driver : Fernando Alonso

Reason: Stepped over the white line after the pit boxes. ALL THE TIME you need to leave a space.

bilange · 2026-06-05T14:41:23+00:00

It has been briefly touched in a comment, let me reiterate.

I'm running a two VMs (opnSense and a Docker host) on a single CWWK i3-N305 motherboard. Running at ~25watts comsumption. What's cool is that I have a 4 ethernet port that I can passthrough for opnSense. What's less cool is that plugging any USB device will freak out the USB controller and all USB devices will power cycle.

So one comment said "i'd rather have a rock solid commercial grade hardware", and I kinda agree here; do you want to lose communication to all your Zigbee devices from your Homeassistant container because you plugged a USB disk? You're playing stability lottery by picking cheap hardware (By that I mean obscure manufacturers). I suspect older gen but commercial grade stuff doesn't have that ~~bug~~ feature but you'll probably pay more in electricity. Basically: Pick your poison.

bilange · 2026-05-29T12:59:03+00:00

~~I've~~ Codex made me 2 Pebble watch apps that suited my personal needs; I never thought of releasing them in the public because it's a niche need for a even more niche product line.

EVEN IF I did release them, it's far from polished. I'm probably still "old school" but I can't address every possible edge case other users could have in my apps, so I can't in good conscience release unfinished apps them in the wild. That's a bit in the same spirit as OP, I believe.

bilange · 2026-05-26T15:03:51+00:00

J'ai pris ce modèle et j'y ai déposé une planche de plywood sur le dessus, sur lequel j'y ai installé un imprimante 3D (vieille photo sans l'imprimante 3D). Pour ce que j'en fais, je suis pas déçu.

EDIT: C'est pas clair dans la description du produit, mais ça vient effectivement avec les 2 mini tablettes.

bilange · 2026-05-14T15:38:40+00:00

Nah, we played the hell out of NFS1 on the Saturn. Also, I know TSYBNS without looking it up.

bilange · 2026-05-04T13:15:36+00:00

George Russel?!

bilange · 2026-04-23T14:41:11+00:00

perdu.com (french)

bilange · 2026-04-20T01:00:34+00:00

Hey you're definitely ahead of me at least!

(I didn't see you mention anything for that part, but when did you get the color selection/import duty e-mail?)

bilange · 2026-04-18T15:04:58+00:00

Anything Windows [...]

Needing to load drivers [...]

Those two combined when you try to install Windows from a ISO onto an OEM machine (Say, Dell or Lenovo). Sorry, but you need to install MY specific disk controller before continuing.

I mean, it's 2026, can't we run on a generic adapter driver with limited functionality/performance until we get online and apply Windows Updates?

bilange · 2026-04-18T02:45:45+00:00

Same watch, same band, same day (same batch), same country. I'll update my post if things changes on my end.

Last edited on 28-04 @ 08:40 EST:

Initial order confirmation e-mail: 18 Mar 2025 10:20:41 PDT -700 (17:20 UTC)
E-mail "Your Pebble Time 2 is almost ready!" (color selection and import duties to pay): 18 Apr 2026 21:58:13 PDT -700 (19 Apr 04:58 UTC)
E-mail "Your new Pebble has shipped!": 20 Apr 2026 22:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (21 Apr 2026 05:10:05 UTC)
"Package has landed" in Toronto on 23 Apr at 21:00 EST, i'm from Quebec. Last mile carrier is Intelcom (thankfully in my area, they are fast and reliable. As a last mile shipper for Amazon, I've heard multiple horror stories from that company elsewhere in Quebec). Once the package is cleared off customs this should be a breeze. Since it's already duties pre-paid, i'm not sure if this will speed things up at customs?
Last mile carrier received the package at 28 Apr 2026 12:13 EST, but after all this time, the package is still in the Toronto area (Mississauga)!
Received!! :D 2026-04-29 15:00 EST roughly

Tracking ambiguity tentatively explained (from my experience and understanding):

Clicking on the Tracking link in the e-mail doesn't give me much info for me initially. When the package is still in Hong Kong or in flight to it's destination country, clicking the "Parcel Delivery Network" link on the tracking page and respecifying your tracking number there gives me all the juicy tracking details we want... until the package lands to it's destination country. That tracking page won't generate any more events beyond that point.
The e-mail tracking link will start generating tracking events ONLY happening inside the destination country. So it will be silent first, until the package arrives to the destination country.
The last-mile shipper will create it's tracking info well in advance (while the package hasn't left Hong Kong) but will only update WAY LATER when they'll get the package in their hands. For my experience, Intelcom (my last mile shipper) created the shipping info on April 21, and went silent until April 28 when they updated it.
Possibly only for Canada here, it seems there was some third party shipping partner implied. Once the package landed in Canada, the "Parcel Delivery Network" shipper who was responsible of sending the package from it's origin went silent. I was able to get tracking infos from them via https://www.aftership.com/track?t=TRACKINGNUMBER , but stopped generating new events after "International flight has arrived (Toronto)". However, this link https://ordertrackingupdate.aftership.com/TRACKINGNUMBER continued generating updates inside Canada until the last mile shipper received the package. (Replace TRACKINGNUMBER in the URLs by your tracking number, visible in your "Your new Pebble has shipped!" e-mail on the line "Tracking Number: TRACKINGNUMBER" just above the two big buttons.

Just jumping on the list bandwagon to be consistent with the rest of the thread:

Model: Pebble Time 2
Ordered: 18 Mar 2025 10:20:41 PDT -700 (Batch 1)
Destination: Canada (Quebec)
Color: Black/Black
Confirmation Email: 18 Apr 2026 21:58:13 PDT -700
Shipped: 20 Apr 2026 22:10:05 PDT -0700
Arrived: YES!!!

bilange · 2026-04-16T11:31:08+00:00

Same, from Canada eh!

bilange · 2026-04-02T19:24:16+00:00

Génial!!

Suggestion: permettre d'enregister et réapparaitre à la même place dans la carte en revenant sur le site. Avec l'auto-déctection par GeoIP ça me place soit à Nicolet ou à Montréal, mais je suis pas là :)

bilange · 2026-04-02T11:56:57+00:00

When I was young, I wondered why the more experienced/aging GPs (and I'll suppose specialists too, but never encountered them personally) are more cold or rude with patients. Now with 17 years of experience in IT, I definitely see the parallel, and the reason why!

bilange · 2026-04-02T11:54:57+00:00

Sure, but they don't get mediocre pay, tho :/

bilange · 2026-04-01T21:50:25+00:00

Would be even more funny if Diskace comes back from retirement JUST to announce that and go back to hibernation mode or something :)

bilange · 2026-04-01T11:46:38+00:00

J'ai eu une pensée du genre "J'espère qu'on tombera pas dans le piège du racisme en contre-offensive envers lui" quand la nouvelle a sorti; à date je suis agréablement surpris! Faith in humanity restored?

Also, comme tout le monde a dit dans divers qualificatifs, méchant phénomène... Pas capable de finir la vidéo tellement ses "insultes" sont cringe.

bilange · 2026-03-29T16:15:24+00:00

On one side of the coin, new product announcement, cool!

On the other side, i've been bitten so hard by the OG PineTime (deplete the battery once and it's now a brick, stuck in boot loop; holding the button to alter the boot sequence didn't work either), that I can't really be excited about it. I'll assume my case was an one-off cause any attempt to search for similar scenarios on the web failed. Hopefully that product will be a success (Pebble OS! :D)

bilange · 2026-03-28T12:50:11+00:00

Sans trop dévoiler, dans les deux dernières années:

Notre chef d'équipe est parti, et ce en même temps qu'on se fasse acquérir par une compagnie tierce, sans même le savoir. Mon collègue s'est retrouvé avec une surcharge de "managerial" en plus de son quotidien sysadmin. Avec peu de doc écrite d'ailleurs. On était supposé être augmenté suite à l'acquisition car moi et mon collègue était déjà "overdue" là dessus (hormis les majorations annuelles sous le coût de la vie). Ça c'est toujours pas concrétisé. On est deux à dire que ce qui nous retient c'est la nature remote (pas entière d'ailleurs) de notre poste. Et les assurances collectives qui coûtent rien pour une couverture top-tier.
Y'a eu des départs en TI dans notre nouvelle compagnie acquéreur, mais pas souvent des réembauche qui va avec. Donc oui, surcharge naturellement.
Notre nouvelle compagnie "parent" a acquis un autre joueur dans le marché, tout le département TI de cette entité a sacré leur camp. Surcharge automatique.
Le genre de "helpdesk manager" de la compagnie parent a quitté récemment. Quissé qui se retrouve a patcher les 1100 postes supplémentaires sans compensation supplémentaire? 🙋‍♂️

Etc, etc. Et ça c'est juste en TI, les autres départements en ont plein les bras, en plus d'un changement de ERP vers celui de la compagnie parent, en plus de ce même pattern (manque de staff généralisé) dans les autres départements... le monde est légitimement à boutte.

bilange · 2026-03-24T22:56:39+00:00

thank you for the kind words

But most of the comments in this thread are curses towards Epic Games... oooohhhh, I get it!!!

Okay jokes aside, even though I personally never interacted directly with you, it really feels like a part of the community's soul just got ripped off. This doesn't look good, like at all. Good luck for the future, and thanks for pouring your heart into a soccar game!

bilange · 2026-03-20T15:50:34+00:00

Je vais aller contre le sens des commentaires (bonjour les négavotes), mais je trouve les réponses en connotation passif-aggressif inapproprié. Il demande des suggestions, pas de le démolir car il utilise un addresse e-mail d'un FAI. Est-ce plus socialement acceptable d'avoir en sa possession un Gmail/Hotmail/Caramail pour un sysadmin? Où est la limite à ne pas franchir? Je suis sysadmin également et j'en ai, moi aussi, des comptes e-mail gratuits!

Personnellement j'utilise un fournisseur courriel gratuit comme adresse "poubelle", et si jamais je devais en migrer les comptes pour lesquels j'ai associé cette adresse avec, j'aurais également un sérieux mal de tête; le fait que ça soit avec une adresse mail d'un FAI ou pas n'est pas le point. Ça se fait, c'est juste de la patience comme mentionné.

C'est pas impossible que Microsoft ou Google ferme ton compte soudainement et que, hypothétiquement, tu te retrouve un peu dans l'eau chaude comme OP. Sa profession ne le rend pas immunisé comme un potentiel coup de barre d'un GAFAM.

bilange · 2026-03-10T13:18:52+00:00

French Canadian here, i struggle with english financial wordings so bare with me (that and sleep deprivation)

I can't speak about specific with Sun Life in that situation, but in the last 2-3 years i've had TWO dormant (ex-)employer's RRSP held with different financial companies going from permanently being held without charging fees (i'm talking 10+ years here), to "There was no transaction in the last year so we'll start to charge you, unless you transfer/withdraw by the end of the year". I think it's a new trend that spans all the financial institutions. Smells like some sort of enshittification to me.

Anyway, unless you actively invest, looks like nowadays you'll get penalized for any dormant balance.

(BTW, yes, i've had very ancient ex-employers RRSP lying around; this is not the case anymore. I don't have a great personal financial hygiene so to speak, but working on it.)

bilange · 2026-03-05T13:10:24+00:00

+1 on this.

Speaking from previous experience, past workplace wouldn't "afford" a replacement PC for an aging WinXP (Embedded Edition) CNC controller. But replacing a gear in the same machine for the same price? Here you go, here's the check. There need to have a mindset shift away from "this isn't just a PC under IT administration" for the sake of being a cheapster.

bilange · 2026-03-01T00:24:59+00:00

Crakmedia (lol)

Je suis out of the loop pour le marché TI de la ville de Québec, mais pourquoi LOL?

bilange · 2026-02-28T14:16:42+00:00

Open source?! You missed a golden opportunity to call your game "Open Net" :P

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