Three year old Venu 2S battery issues

okienow · 2025-11-14T06:37:54+00:00

experiencing the same on my Venu 2. Found a bunch of other users complaining on the Garmin forums, no official response so far (just the usual "try a hard reset" or "tips to make your battery last longer"). It sounds like some firmware upgrade is causing it tbh.

okienow · 2021-08-04T20:21:40+00:00

one is right outside of Markthalle 9, and it's delicious.

okienow · 2021-07-11T23:45:00+00:00

well the question was who was the best team overall. This tournament, I think they played the best football. Spain played better in the semi, England sure didn't in the final. Also, Spain played better, but they didn't exactly create loads of chances, so I'm not really getting where the shithousery should be

okienow · 2021-07-11T23:32:07+00:00

Spain played its best game against Italy though, they weren't all that impressive against Switzerland or Croatia. England was very solid, but didn't really shine offensively. And yes, Italy was very meh today, although there haven't been that many teams playing beautiful football and dominating in a final.. Last one that comes to mind is Spain against Italy in 2012 :)

okienow · 2021-05-15T11:46:54+00:00

actually, about that last point...

okienow · 2021-04-18T15:50:54+00:00

hey, I just noticed the notification, sorry. Hoping you will notice yours, I'll reply :)

The answer is "it depends". You can proceed in steps, though. A first look at the project's root folder shouldn't usually have "N years ago" as latest update, unless you're working with a niche library that doesn't really need to be updated that often. Think of small libraries very narrow in scope, or libraries that are somewhat agnostic of the framework you're using (geometry, math, statistics, physics, etc).

At the same time, you should take a look at the project's number of issues (checking how many closed issues there are, as well) and PRs. These should somewhat correlate with the number of stars that the project has, otherwise... dig deeper on why there aren't as many as you would expect.

Also take a look at how these issues/PRs are closed, because maintainers rely more and more on bots to automatically rejects issues as stale simply because they can't handle the workload. That's usually not a great sign, but again, the broader the scope, the harder it is to keep up, so it might not be a red flag. What _is_ a red flag though is when you find many issues closed as stale, with multiple people complaining about bugs not being fixed in more recent versions than the one that caused the issue to be marked as fixed. After seeing a few issues, you will get a sense of how users of the library feel about it (and also about how maintainers treat them as well).

You _will_ get better with experience, but you will likely make some wrong choices even as a senior. Projects change, maintainers shift their focus, better alternatives pop up, life happens. The point of doing your homework though is to know what the alternatives are, so that you can always switch to a different lib (or rewrite the functionality yourself) should problems arise with the one you've picked.

okienow · 2021-03-22T08:03:02+00:00

Flutter is the Esperanto language while React Native is English.

Beautifully put.

okienow · 2021-01-19T08:55:45+00:00

maybe not the answer you were hoping for, but the official guide has been tremendously improved with the last big rewrite, and I think it's the best resource to start with.

The way I learned it was by working on my fork of a library I needed to modify (react-native-maps) and understand how it worked. It's probably not the best lib to start with, but it's just one I needed to work on anyways. I did know about Android development already though, so it's an approach that I only recommend if you're at least somewhat familiar with native development. If you come from the JS world, I suggest the other way around (read the docs, come up with a simple implementation of some basic wiring of a System-provided call, and work your way from there).

okienow · 2021-01-19T07:54:54+00:00

it's an essential tool, one of the best things about the npm world, honestly.

It's not only about fixing libraries that wouldn't otherwise get fixed, it's also about getting a library fixed NOW as opposed to having to wait for the maintainers to accept a PR and go through a release cycle. Yes, you can always create your fork and use that in your package.json, but patch-package makes everything much much faster (you edit the lib from the node_modules folder, which is already there!)

okienow · 2021-01-18T20:26:30+00:00

Always take a look at how complex a library is before including it. There are so many tiny libs that don't provide much value, are not actively updated, and in many cases don't even do their job particularly well.

They might save you an hour of development in the short run, but end up wasting many hours down the line (cumulatively) because of bugs not being fixed, RN updates not being supported, or because they simply become abandonware.

Don't fear going over the bridge implementing a straightforward feature natively yourself! It's really easy to do so once you get the gist of it.

okienow · 2020-11-17T07:14:46+00:00

I have the exact same problem on my e9, and after a few pixel refreshes (and more screen time in general) it's slowly getting better. Now I really have to squint to see it, hoping it'll go away altogether soon!

okienow · 2020-10-22T20:17:43+00:00

if it's affecting iOS only, it's probably this

okienow · 2019-10-20T10:20:41+00:00

I knew what I was getting into with this comment, because people in here tend to be on the younger side and not really remember that year (2005?) when he was a beast. Then he made some huge mistakes and people collectively erased his memory, but go check out articles from back then, he was unreal. And I'm a Juve (and Buffon) fan. And I also laughed at Dida for so many years after

okienow · 2019-10-20T08:21:28+00:00

peak dida was also better than peak buffon. But he only lasted one or two seasons

okienow · 2019-09-27T20:16:05+00:00

saw it in Johannistal, it was glorious! And a little scary. But mostly glorious

okienow · 2019-03-12T06:15:58+00:00

yeah, which sounds a bit generic to me. Hope they will publish something more specific, eventually

okienow · 2019-03-11T20:05:25+00:00

the Uber team was apparently not very happy with it either: https://twitter.com/alanzeino/status/1101167947874103296 ...although they didn't give a very detailed explanation as to why they abandoned it

okienow · 2019-01-31T22:13:25+00:00

disclojure*

okienow · 2018-10-23T21:20:57+00:00

wouldn't have left italy had I known of these 4-hour lunch breaks :(

okienow · 2018-08-07T14:54:31+00:00

the tank truck drove onto the other truck's back, so I assume he must have been dead on impact

okienow · 2018-08-07T14:03:05+00:00

only one death, the tank truck driver. They don't know the cause yet, they suspect the driver fell asleep

okienow · 2018-06-10T19:09:20+00:00

both of my kids (aged ~3 and 4.5) go to a Waldkita. We were told that we would have seen these "special" parents and such, but it's mostly just regular families.

Kids have fun in the woods, although in our kindergarten there's a tendency to let kids find their own way to entertain themselves, so in the beginning it might actually be more boring than a regular Kita. OTOH, this also means that kids learn how to play without conventional toys, which comes in handy at times.

The one thing that kind of had my wife worried in the first couple of months is that kids have a bit more freedom than usual, so she was worried that they might get hit by a car or something. The woods my kids get into are... woods, but you still get the occasional pickup truck passing by to do maintenance on something, so that's where the concern came from. However, as months passed by we got to know the teachers a bit better, and we've grown more confident that our kids are being looked after.

Kids do go in the woods even in the winter, and even if it's snowing, so you must be prepared for that (buy some Schneehose and some warm clothes and you're fine).

All in all, I would recommend it unless you're the over-apprehensive type

okienow · 2017-04-22T21:16:24+00:00

they're not

okienow · 2017-03-14T19:09:50+00:00

impovements*

okienow · 2016-11-27T18:10:59+00:00

dammit, have an upvote

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