how many hours did i stare at the ZMODEM BATCH download screen waiting for my warez to finish at 4800 baud? innumerable! RIP.

I kickstarted this long ago and when I got it a few months ago gave it to my wife as a gift, who is an author. She immediately rejected it because she found the eink transitions where it flashes a dark color briefly very distracting.

That’s an .. interesting reaction to an unique and thoughtful gift.

I made a small digital clock program that I put on a small display.

It sat next to me while I worked, and I found the transitions from one time to another (like 1:01 -> 1:02) to be distracting. So I changed the transition to be a gradual fade and it helped.

Now that I think about it, I remember getting distracted years ago at a home with a grandfather clock. A quiet room except for the ticking. Definitely accentuated boredom (which with smartphones, we never have anymore)

Yeah, at work we switched phone systems a few years back to some Avaya phones. The new ones had a small screen on them. After 15-30 minute idle, they'd display the a logo that would jump to a new location every minute or two. It was a constant distraction in the corner of my vision. Ended up moving the phone to where I couldn't see it. About 10% of the workforce found it distracting.

It's a potentially insulting gift for a writer. Writing lies between job and hobby, depending on success.

This product, from the ad copy, is targeted at fans of writing. People sitting on the bleachers, not the ones on the court.

So from the right angle, the gift reads as saying "I don't take you seriously - you're a wannabe".

She is not alone. Even antirez spends an incredible amount of time these days just to make the transition smoother on his displays: https://x.com/antirez/status/1768741226159730750

I think it'd be better as a fully mechanical device. 1,400 printed pages that flip like a book minute by minute.

I have 3 kids, two twins. They're annoying. Do you want a couple of mine?

i want to see the tiny nasal sprayer they used on these mice, must be adorably cute!

youtube is fucking down!

We still do some development in .NET 3.5 VB (huge health care company). It rules and I love it. We do angular, node, c#, yadda yadda, also, but I will always return to my #1 (and first) love, BASIC.

"I understand how to read a schematic!" - John Hammond

I mean all this really is is two people sending email really quickly to each other....

Which is exactly what Japanese were doing on their legacy "galakei" phones before the iPhone took over.

And all email is is two people sending telegraphs really quickly to each other....

I mean metaphorically sure, but in this case it's literally using the exact same system; it's just the clients are changed to look like a chat app instead of an email app. This is more like if two people were sending telegraphs over actual telegraph lines, with morse code and everything, then at the end they type it up into a Word document and say "It's email!"

And? What makes "chat" is synchrony and to a certain extent UI, not transport protocol.

Yeah, so why not put everything in one bucket that you control, your mailbox. Part of the idea.

Is there something wrong with that

"Doze" is a nightmare for apps that need reliable GPS readings.. the only real solution is a service that polls continually to get the GPS when the screen is on so that when the screen is off it can use it to do various background tasks (and of course, it ends up not being super accurate as when the screen is off the user is typically moving, which is when you'd want the GPS to be accurate). This ends up using more energy than would have been saved if the GPS wasn't available periodically when the screen is off! It's totally ridiculous..

yes!!!!!!! hate hate hate quicken with a burning passion.

The parent comment immediately reminded how I loved the ux and flow of "quicken home and business 98" - I have hated every quickbooks version since.

Didn't inuit buy and kill / sell quicken or something. If they would of just kept the ux wrapper from Qhnb 98 and layered that over the DB of quickbooks it'd be okey with me.

I too hate hate hate quickbooks, and price structure, layout and all that.