Originally it was a pejorative term for Japanese and East-Asian car modders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner Than the term moved from car modding subculture to computer UI modding subculture.

I don’t have either, use an alternative frontend or mirror, like https://imginn.com/akihikokondosk/

I hate physical media. I was growing up with the worst type, VHS, so subconsciously I associate every physical media with VHS. lt was bulky, you always had to roll it back. If multiple things were recorded on the same tape, you had to write down where they start and you had to stop seeking at the correct time. If you copied from one tape to another quality worsened.

From the shape I thought the screen has some 3D effect, or a curved screen or something like that. But on some development images you can see it’s just a flat screen behind a curved glass. It’s definitely android, you can see the icons on this picture:

You can see the screen is flat on this other one:

The guy seems to overcame this, he still posts daily about his other Hatsune Miku dolls on his instagram: https://instagram.com/akihikokondosk/

Specs from the website:

Rockchip RK3588 has that specs, so it should be that or something really similar. 3588 is a 5 years old chip, it was used in a gazillion of cheap sbcs and NASes, Android SDK available, so it can be android.

Latest interesting thing with this chip is the MNT Reform Laptop

Video from the product website:

I have a K750, the battery is about 15 years old with daily use. The original battery was dead when I opened it, I just bought one when it was new, and it’s still going.

In another thread some days ago others shared similar experiences as you, so maybe I’m the lucky one.

I live in a bright flat, and my computer was always near to the window, it’s charge never went below 80-90%, so maybe that’s the reason for its longevity.

So they actually want to build a dead internet? Why?

Dead internet wasn’t a goal. It’s Torment Nexus again:

I don’t said your devices will stop working, you misunderstand the whole conversation. Form factors change all time, I have here a 5.25" 8 MB HDD next to me. “Planned obsolescence” that I can’t use a 30 years old component? You can hardly buy a motherboard with floppy or IDE/PATA ports. Do you also miss them?

I mean, it’s expected that new devices won’t have all the old ports, like USB killed all the serial and parallel and other terrible single use ports, thanks god. You can always buy dongles, like, I have IDE-USB converter so I can still use my old devices. I recently bought a laptop IDE-m.2 converter, so I can use m.2 sata SSD in a Win-98 era laptop. Where is this obsolescence, I could work it around easily. SATA won’t disappear, and 2.5" to 3.5" adapters are cheap as hell, as it’s just a plastic frame.

It’s the same with NVMe, what do you mean.

Have you ever opened a 2.5" sata ssd? half of the box is empty, it’s just there so you can screw it to the case on the other side. I hope that form factor will die soon. We need nvme in m.2 format for everything small, and 3.5" for servers. 2.5" should disappear.

Veritasium had a good video recently about SS7, and how users can be tracked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y

They sold licensed the brand to TCL in 2016, so there were some Chinese android phones with BB branding, the last one was Evolve X in 2018, 6 years ago. iirc they were very overpriced

BlackBerry

The official name of the emoji is simply “folded hand”. It was part of Unicode 6.0, released in 2010, codepoint U+1F64F. It’s on page 11 on the original proposal: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09026r-emoji-proposed.pdf

I guess they deliberately named it to the neutral “folded hand” so asian people can use as thank you, while westerners as pray

Other benefit of zigbee that devices can’t connect directly to the internet, so you don’t have to trust them, you don’t have to create vlans, they can’t be turned into a botnet. Also in zigbee every device can be a router, so they can more easily cover bigger houses.

I wouldn’t replace a wifi based system with zigbee, but recommend it to anyone starting now. This post wanted to be an advice to newcomers…

Ikea bulbs use zigbee, their prices are very good and they are more reliable than chinese stuff.

It’s up to you how you automate your smart home. My useful light related automations:

• When I arrive home and the light sensor see it’s dark it switches on the living room light
• if I pause a movie in jellyfin it turns on a light, if I hit play it switches it off
• The off timer of a movement activated light depends on if my projector is turned on, it switches off more quickly when the projector is on
• If I’m not home it switches off everything automatically, so I can’t forget any lights on

I have an old wifi yeelight, measured it now because I was interested. 1.4W off, 8.4W full power

For comparison, Ikea zigbee bulb 9.3W max power, less than 0.1 W while off, but switches on instantly. My watt meter can’t measure less than 0.1W so it shows 0.0W.

Zigbee was designed for this kind of usage. I have several zigbee sensors running on 3.3V coin cell batteries, they can report data for years without battery replacement.

These are terrible advices.

All smart lightbulbs have a small router in them, so they all use some electricity while switched off. You can gain some net plus only if you live with people who constantly forget to switch off lights. But you need some presence detector as well. Smart lighting is about convenience not energy usage.

Wifi is the worst wireless standard from energy usage standpoint. Zigbee’s power usage is much less and devices are cheap. Thread and Z-wave power usage also lower than wifi, but devices are a bit more expensive.

Amazon and Google are a privacy nightmare. Home Assistant and Domoticz are two wellknown local first smart home systems.

And you generate traffic for them, thanks. You could just directly link to the install docs on PostmarketOS, not for a shitty third party site: https://postmarketos.org/install/