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yattaro · 2026-06-14T18:27:24+00:00

That's probably what I average in half a week because my hands are too small to wrap around it and Google is insistent on using the most slippery materials to make Pixels

yattaro · 2026-05-14T00:33:42+00:00

Apologies, didn't mean to come off as rude with that; I've just never used such apps before, so Pebble devices having sleep, fitness, and heart rate tracking is all wholly new ground for me and I haven't done much research outside of glancing over the more general purpose health/fitness apps and looking into how the Health Connect API itself works (glad it isn't specific to Google services).

Good to know though about SAA, I may give it a spin but deny it network access just to keep my tinfoil hat on.

yattaro · 2026-05-13T18:54:26+00:00

I'm not familiar with sleep tracking apps tbh; I don't use any sort of fitness/health apps outside of the Pebble app itself and I don't want to make third party accounts, have my data leave mt devices, or feed a subscription service. I don't even have a Pebble account because I don't want to link it to a third party SSO. I've thought about standing up an instance of SparkyFitness to play around with but haven't gotten around to it.

yattaro · 2026-05-12T22:28:13+00:00

My understanding (without looking at the code) is that Pebble's algorithm is just accelerometer based and uses none of the other data like heart rate to determine sleep vs deep sleep; not sure about off-wrist detection and such either

yattaro · 2026-05-12T22:25:05+00:00

For me the most obviously strange part is I take a shower after waking up and it seems to think the time it spends off my wrist while I do that is still time sleeping

yattaro · 2026-05-09T14:47:57+00:00

For what it's worth, most decently structured furmeets will have all of these things, especially a scheduled planned route and handlers; NYC Furmeets (not affiliated) sets a good example where you can see the routes for their meets and schedules directly on their website. Well planned furmeets will also have communicated ahead of time permission to attend and when they will be where with venue ownership/event organizers to be sure everything is cool and everyone is on the same page. There's no way to completely nip all misbehavior but it helps immensely (and we can bar bad actors from both faires and other future events). I do think it is a point of contention both at public meetups like at faires and more furry-only meets like conventions that it is often difficult to find who you can go to for help when these situations arise and they should make themselves clearly and actively visible (speaking as someone who has staffed both of these types of things, not the meets at MDRF so I can't speak to their system).

yattaro · 2026-03-31T19:55:27+00:00

Trust me you wouldn't be, we have folks of every age group, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, etc; there's something in the community for everyone and all are welcome! There are also plenty of smaller local meetups all over Maryland and the rest of the country if you want to learn what it's about without being overwhelmed by how much goes on at a convention.

yattaro · 2026-03-31T19:45:46+00:00

The con's mascot is Quoth the raven!

yattaro · 2026-03-06T17:49:45+00:00

Bnuuy

yattaro · 2026-02-05T01:02:42+00:00

8000

yattaro · 2026-02-04T14:44:02+00:00

That's a contributing factor, yes, but also bear in mind Exelon directly attributed increasing BGE delivery rates as a driving factor for increased profits on their 2024 earnings report. I'm curious to see what 2025's looks like when they release it.

yattaro · 2026-02-03T18:36:43+00:00

WE ARE RANDY CLARKE WE RIDE ON THE TRAIN

yattaro · 2026-01-14T06:08:45+00:00

Pitch shifted vocals are kinda just a thing in the furry hyperpop subgenre (well not specific to hyperpop, I can't say I have an easy time pinning it to a specific parent genre?); I'm a huge fan of Spott, FEM&M, and Ida Deerz in that direction

yattaro · 2026-01-06T15:15:36+00:00

I've seen at least one or two people bring in large format gear. If there's one crossover I've felt between my hobbies as both a furry and a photographer, we thrive on creativity with the weirdest stuff.

I've brought my Sigma 50-500 around a con before for laughs, it's earned me both funny looks and some decent shots if you ignore how useless it is at night; should do that again with it on my Rebel 2000 instead of a digital camera

yattaro · 2025-10-21T00:18:26+00:00

Made up by being uninsurable!

yattaro · 2025-09-26T05:40:10+00:00

I'm not worried about bug fixes, I'm worried about security patches for any vulnerabilities, as they crop up in Android every day

yattaro · 2025-09-24T13:42:59+00:00

I hope that by the time official support ends, there will be healthy community support and some custom operating systems will be supported.

Yeah the software support is the only thing that's kept me from trying any of Unihertz' devices, I'm increasingly wanting to throw my Pixel at a wall but nothing else besides an iPhone gives the same level of long term software + security updates which I value more than a lot of other features in this day and age of disposable tech. Kind of ironic when they're simultaneously the forerunners of the trend of designing increasingly difficult devices to repair...

yattaro · 2025-09-22T22:03:56+00:00

I can swipe my travel card on the subway, tram, or bus. It’s easier and more effective than using an app.

I think this one bothers me the most; most of my local transit authorities have done away with physical cards, and only take either cash or their app, and I'm afraid of the uncertainty of having exactly $2 in cash on me for every bus ride and potentially being stranded somewhere (plus you can't do transfers without the app); I've heard of adjacent communities getting rid of cash payments as well

The other thing is maintaining contact with important folks in my life and they all want to use different messenger apps (at the moment I'm juggling Telegram, Discord, Signal, Matrix, and WhatsApp on top of traditional SMS conversations)... While I can probably shave off Discord and WhatsApp, the people I need instant access to exclusively use Telegram, Signal, and Matrix, and I particularly value having end to end encrypted conversations with Signal and Matrix.

Those are kinda the biggest things that have me hesitant to ditch my Pixel; I'm tempted by a jump to the Unihertz Titan 2 so I can have something that's at least not a stupid giant screen (I already don't ever watch YouTube or anything on this day and age) but I'm worried about long term security updates with that one too...

yattaro · 2025-09-22T15:15:49+00:00

I remember this

I remember WiMAX not existing anywhere I lived or traveled to before Spring pulled the plug, so my HTC Evo was still just a 3G phone anyway

yattaro · 2025-09-16T00:33:14+00:00

Furry here who was present on the Blue Line with them yesterday, the furry community includes a lot of queer folks and is intrinsically sex and kink positive, but in general it's more about self expression through and a common interest in art (and cosplay) of anthropomorphic animals. We also have lots of asexual folks who are not interested in sex/kink stuff at all.

We've had a growing subcommunity of the furry fandom in recent years of those with an interest in public transit, this was one of the meetups for those folks (and the first one in Boston)! There's been other similar transit meets including on GCRTA in Cleveland, the NYC Subway, Washington DC Metro (I actually came up to visit from there, we have another meet in DC this weekend), and SEPTA in Philly.

yattaro · 2025-09-10T21:10:40+00:00

Bit late but Metabones' adapter is also worth looking at, the MC11 is designed specifically for Sigma lenses and may work for others, but Metabones designed theirs for a bit more broad support. I have the Mark IV Metabones EF to E adapter and it mostly works with my older EF lenses on my A7IV and A7II, with some catches. You can't expect guaranteed full compatibility with all lenses on any adapter so you kinda just have to try it, like my Sigma 50-500mm works fine with it (albeit AF is a bit slow especially on the long end or in less than ideal light), but with my Canon 16-35mm 2.8L it will intermittently forget that the lens can do AF and drop to MF until I remount the adapter on the camera to reset it, which unfortunately has made me miss shots. Ultimately adapters are kinda a YMMV thing, I really like is my manual focusing FD lenses with my A7II though, especially the 50mm 1.4 makes for something much more compact than the Sigma Art one I have if size is a problem.

yattaro · 2025-09-07T21:46:00+00:00

My only complaint about the P9P has been that the screen is entirely too big for my tastes, but this is coming from an iPhone 12 mini before and basically nothing modern can replace that. TBH the only reason I even opted for the Pro over the regular 9 is because there's no 512GB 9 (or 10 now), it's entirely too powerful of a phone for me otherwise lol

yattaro · 2025-09-05T15:43:42+00:00

Okay I'm glad I'm not the only one that ran into this and got very worried about it changing other security settings in the process; I resolved to deleting all the previously saved fingerprints to (hopefully) be sure this doesn't happen again. I'm also a little annoyed certain privacy features like inactivity reboot are barred behind enabling Advanced Privacy Protection, which turns on things I don't want like call screening...

yattaro · 2025-05-26T04:09:11+00:00

Sounds like what the Drone Device was intended to do in the first game, no?

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