Kevin

It’s definitely not perfect, like I can grab a nap and not have it notice sometimes so I assume there are a bunch of heuristics at play that create a “best guess”.

That said, how rested I feel does typically line up with the number of hours it shows (regardless of how long I’ve actually spent in bed), and it has a short description about the quality of sleep like “restorative” or “not enough rem” that further lines up with how I feel.

Exactly. Gadgetbridge reverse engineered the protocol so it can configure all the same settings the Garmin app can, notifications get forwarded to the watch, the watch sends its sensor data, gps tracks, etc and Gadgetbridge knows what to do with the data so it’s displayed in graphs and lists, etc.

And yeah, if you get a watch without wifi or don’t connect one with it to a network, then all data i/o is going to be exclusively bluetooth with Gadgetbridge, which specifically avoids the network permission (so there’s zero chance of anything leaking to a server somewhere.) That’s why it communicates with a weather app fur that data instead if pulling it in itself.

It also works with more than just smart watches; like I can use it to configure the buttons, noise cancelling state, etc on my bluetooth headphones.

Mine does (a fenix 7). I think any model that has a heart rate sensor would probably work based on the wiki page. There are certain models that offload sleep tracking to the official app, and I don’t think those support sleep tracking in gadgetbridge yet (last I checked this was the case), but the ones that handle it on the watch like mine fully support that too (and you can view stats and a graph in gadgetbridge).

Speaking of the wiki page: https://gadgetbridge.org/basics/topics/garmin/ - there’s a lot to parse since so many models apply, but my fenix 7 has had full support aside from live cloud maps in the weather app, and I’ve been issue-free since last October aside from a couple things they quickly fixed for me after I opened them.

There are 2 main gotchyas:

1. despite the weather sync not requiring the official app (gadgetbridge can sync with breezy weather), the watch stops trying to refresh it if it’s been ~3 months since rotating the api key. In the advanced settings you can have gadgetbridge create a new api key for you, but that may break the ability to use the official app (I don’t so I went with that).

2. gadgetbridge can’t update the firmware or maps, however you can update directly on the watch via wifi, or you can use the PC app (which works great in a libvirt windows vm).

Gadgetbridge supports a good chunk of their watches. Completely offline and you can configure watch settings through it.

I bought a Dell with Ubuntu preloaded in 2019. I think it should still be possible (It’s their “developer edition” models).

The game Myst actually worked kind of like a DVD menu with more options.

Gnome works like that too- double click on the TTF/OTF and you get a window with a preview of the font and an install button.

I was pretty lucky in university as most of my profs were either using cross platform stuff or Linux exclusive software. I had a single class that wanted me using windows stuff and I just dropped that one.

Awesome that you’re getting back into it, it’s definitely the best it’s ever been (and you’re right that Steam cracked the code). It sounds like you probably know what you’re doing if you’re running Linux VMs and stuff, but feel free to shoot me a PM if you run into any questions or issues I might be able to point you in the right direction for.

I’ve been running Linux exclusively since 2001 or so. It was rough around the edges back then, but it was useful enough for what I needed.

You had to choose a good distro on that note; redhat, mandrake, etc broke on me so many times, and I was only able to fully switch after finding slackware, which was rock solid.

I had Linux on my laptop 20 years ago. The SD card reader didn’t work, and it couldn’t sleep (was sleep a thing for any laptop back then? I can’t remember). It did work though!

Earlier today I googled how to toggle full screen in dosbox-x and the AI-generated answer said to use alt+enter. Tried it and it didn’t work, so I look in the documentation and it turns out that they changed it to F12+f a while ago (probably to avoid interfering with actual dos input).

This is definitely already a problem.

Libertarianism is a traditionally left wing philosophy that started in the 1800s. They’re also typically pretty big on human rights and equality.

The more modern America-centric “tea party” libertarians fit what you’re saying, but they didn’t create the term.

I never thought about it before, but that might actually be the case eh? You don’t talk to Canadian border security on your way out.

Oh I see, so these are the same ads you’d see on the official broadcast too?

That’s crazy, it sounds like a whole business! I guess there are probably more costs and risks associated with live streaming that warrant the income stream, compared to uploading a movie to some torrent tracker.

Where are you seeing ads in pirated content?

“Name one person that died of cancer who never received a vaccine for anything. That’s what I thought!”

CBC’s ideas: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas

It isn’t always about politics, and when it is it’s usually wider reaching things in retrospect or debates with intelligent people, but it’s quintessentially Canadian and always interesting and educational.

A bit too late to vote (pixelfed.ca would have been mine anyway), but I love how something like this can happen on the fediverse. Other types of services (eg: x.com) are all about competition and screwing over the other guy, and then here you have one instance handing over a perfect domain to another so they can have a better presence.

Huge props to Dan for giving up his domain, as well as to the lemmy.ca team for expanding the fediverse.

I have an old phone with microg, slack, tasker and termux running on it. When slack receives a push notification, tasker pulls it out and sends it to a script in termux that forwards it to my gotify server, which my main phone is listening for notifications on.

I’ve emailed Slack a bunch of times asking for unified push or even just an API route I can listen on, but so far I’ve had no luck.