abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I mean, they listen sometimes. But the point is, they, as any other company, were doing it to pretend that they are cool and progressive. As the result they got mostly negative reactions. So why bother with the effort if you're only gonna reduce your already dwindling player base. IIRC, they were very small symbolic events anyway.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 0 points 3 months ago

Ok, thanks! Good to know there's a backup plan. For now Arc still works fine, just no updates anymore.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does any other browser let me open 2 windows with the same synced tabs? Also, permanent per-space tabs, please.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why is the dpad censored?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

I'm not criticizing the screens, they are ok and I loved my Pebble Time Steel until the battery swelled and popped off the screen. I'm just saying that calling these e-paper is a deceptive marketing strategy.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

From the Verge article:

The first watch that Migicovsky and Core plan to ship is called the Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the old Intel processor), which Migicovsky says will cost $149 and will ship in July. [...] It has the exact same black-and-white e-paper display as the old Pebble 2 (technically a transflective LCD, if you’re curious)

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

As I mentioned earlier, whether a screen type is considered e-paper is subjective. And in my opinion, reflective LCD isn't a type of e-paper. You may disagree, but it's not "categorically" wrong.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Quote is from Wikipedia. You can see it's the case for both models here:

Besides, I own a Pebble Time watch and can tell you, it doesn't perform like a typical e-paper. It has the bad viewing angles of LCD and screen goes blank when power is lost.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

The watch featured a 32-millimetre (1.26 in) 144 × 168 pixel black and white memory LCD using an ultra low-power "transflective LCD"

The problem is that e-paper is a category of displays, and some companies label reflective LCDs as "e-paper". Which is subjective (and I personally heavily disagree with that categorization, cause then LCD clocks and Gameboys have "e-paper" displays, too).

But in the comment I responded to it was said Pebble has "eink" display, which is categorically wrong, as that is a very specific proprietary technology, which is e-paper in traditional sense, like the ones in Kindles.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago (11 children)

IIRC, it has a reflective LCD, not epaper display.

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