abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not sure what's the idiom with "fridge" in it.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 39 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

My two favorite malaphors:

  • It's not rocket surgery.
  • We will burn that bridge when we get to it.
[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 4 weeks ago

Then I misunderstood and was thinking of a different adjustment of the head. The one I was thinking about us when you wedge the screwdriver behind the head and bend it otwards a little for better contact. For that you need a flat tool.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't you use a flathead for that?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So she wants to go to jail if she wakes up with a headache?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

I love both of the hosts. Wish they just switched to something else instead of canceling completely. Could've done regular science news.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

iDreams (Infinite Dreams) didn't make the cut? I love their Sky Force games.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 1 month 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 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 month 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 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 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 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 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.

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