I'm the author. I've now set up notifications on the advice of just about everyone. It's pretty cool!

I agree with all this. The thing which caused me to uninstall was suddenly being pushed lots of abusive message with disturbing contents.

When I complained about it, Matrix told me that my public complaints were hurting the ecosystem and I should be quiet.

Happy to say the latest nightly does support notifications. My wrist is buzzing with action!

1 Watt is the equivalent of moving 1Kg 1 metre in 1 second.

If you want a kilowatt - you need to move 1,000Kg 1 metre in 1 second. Or, I guess, 1Kg a Km.

Plug the numbers together and you'll see that you need a massive physical load and a huge distance in order to store a useful amount of energy.

You need a specialised device. I couldn't find any software which could read this from an Android phone or Linux machine.

(Author here) As I say in my post, our roof is full. We have 16x 320 Watt panels - 8 on each side of the roof.

Get something which works with GadgetBridge. You'll be in complete control.

I don't know if you looked at the photo in my post - but there's a rubber flap covering the USB-port.

And yet, I literally have one on my wrist now. It's not noticeably bigger than the Pixel 3 watch.

Here's a video of it in action - https://tube.tchncs.de/w/vYTnG6eKghnicdNj5nkhVx

I wrote the post above. So far, the USB-C watch has lasted over 3 days and still has over 50% battery power.

Obviously, at that price it isn't running a cellular radio or GPS. BLE is amazingly efficient - as are the built in sensors.

Thank you 😄

I wrote about it at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/graphing-the-connections-between-my-blog-posts/

Yeah. GadgetBridge allows me to set up an allow-list / block-list for notifications. So I can get SMS on my wrist but ignore social media pings.

Not really. As I say in my article, our roof is full. On a bad day in winter, we might generate 0.5kWh (assuming the panels aren't covered in snow). So we'd need 20x the panels - there's no room for that.

It has a small rubber lug - which has worked so far at keeping out the grime. But I don't have a manual labour job.

There's this thing that writers do called "thought experiments". It is a form of intellectual exercise to examine what happens at extremes.

It helps us explore an idea by future gazing and, yes, getting a little ridiculous. Imagine someone in 1975 saying "what would the world be like if we all had Gbps Internet?"

There was nothing of that speed available for domestic use, but thinking about an "impractical" technology means they can ask "would video conferencing disrupt the travel industry?"

That's what I'm doing. 25 years ago home solar was too expensive to be practical. 25 years ago having a 5kWh battery in your home was close to impossible.

In 25 years time will batteries be cheap enough for us each to have a MWh in the loft? I reckon so. What does the world look like when every home has the ability to be energy self-sufficient using solar?

Author here. I do say that we don't have the technology to make this a reality yet.

Of course, the batteries would be discharging every night and throughout the winter deficit. But, yeah, the tech isn't there yet.

Hey! I run that website - sorry the Drunk Mode was confusing. It shouldn't activate by default. Have you previously visited and turned it on?

Accurate!

It doesn't have storage or a headphone port. But it will stream music over Bluetooth. So if you want to annoy everyone you job with, you can listen to its tinny speaker :-)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o