The Pixel Slate actually did run ChromeOS and then could run Android apps in a VM haha.

And those aren't rumors, there is a pretty big effort to get Android ready for ChromeOS and get feature parity. Which to me is really unfortunate, CrOS has such a nice linux base.

True, but I can see the argument for it. Kinda wild to maintain two different userspaces for Linux, when one is far and away the most popular for smaller-than-computer devices.

Plus, it gives Android developers a widescreen demographic to target, which might finally give them a nudge to make their UIs adapt to things that aren't portrait candybars.

I also remember Fuchsia being Google's new be-all-end-all OS within the company that was being taken very seriously and then nothing came of it

Completely directionless

This only happens if the AICore app is installed. Since it isn't on Graphene then the full 16gb allocation of ram is available for the entire system.

And just to clarify, Material 3 Expressive is not shipping in these builds, that will be in a quarterly release build in probably in the first week of September.

You can expand or shrink every tile now instead of only being able to swap position of the tiles. So more tiles per page.

Haha what? I simply must know more about how you achieved that!

You might enjoy some of qntm's work[0].

Maybe start with this short ("I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility")[1] since it is similar to The Egg in my opinion.

[0] https://qntm.org/fiction [1] https://qntm.org/responsibilit

The Daylight computer DC-1 isn't e-ink it's a reflective LCD by the way. Different screen technology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457491

TIL! Thanks for the link - all the demos / videos had me convinced this was just e-ink technology!

I had the same question and I found the repo link in an about page linked at the bottom!

https://github.com/georgemblack/blue-report

It runs a custom Android 13 based skin with access to the Play Store.

Do you have that code posted somewhere by chance? I would be interested in browsing through it!

Not right now, no. It's fairly simple (login to Bluesky, read RSS, save item IDs to a text file, post if there are any new feed items, close program then systemd timers run this every N minutes) + pretty specific to AEMET and their formats.

If there is interest I guess I could spend some hours to make it a bit more generic and publish the source.

Cool yeah. I think the thing I was most interested in was interacting with Bluesky through rust. Is there a decent sdk for that?

The meat is this, using bsky-sdk + atrium-api from crates:

    let agent = BskyAgent::builder().build().await?;
    agent
        .login("username.bsky.social", "X")
        .await?;
    let rt = RichText::new_with_detect_facets(msg).await?;
    let record = RecordData {
        text: rt.text,
        created_at: atrium_api::types::string::Datetime::now(),
        facets: rt.facets,
    };
    agent.create_record(record).await?;

Works well enough. It's a bit on the lower end of the "abstraction ladder", there might be more user-friendly libraries for doing this even easier now.