Has anyone else run into problems using the app to perform firmware updates? I had used the previous version of the app to upgrade several units to 2.7.19. I tried using the new one to update to 2.7.24, but it failed over and over.

It’s a Heltec T114. I just checked and 2.7.25 is available for the T114, just not from inside the app.

I finally got a new version of the app, but it shows 2.7.24 as the most recent Alpha. I think it must just be hardcoded.

He’s photogenic, even in that first picture.

Thank you. I knew there was something I wasn’t getting.

I may have missed something obvious here, but why “final”?

Sorry, but I can’t see anything past the incredible cuteness.

What’s really sad is that any of this makes a difference.

Samsung Galaxy 6 Classic in 47mm. I’ve had Wear OS watches since the early days, but this is the first one that didn’t involve any obvious compromises. Readability, responsiveness, performance, and battery life are all excellent.

For a long time, my favorite thing about it was that I could design and use my own personal taste in watchfaces. Unfortunately, Google broke that, when they switched watchface formats. The new one simply can’t do what the old one made possible.

Making Android and Wear less useful and more annoying seems to be the only thing Google does these days. And Microsoft is doing exactly the same things with Windows. I’ve begun the move to Linux, but I don’t see an equivalent option for smart watches, which is sad.

These days I use my smart watch primarily as a way of not missing notifications on my phone. It is convenient, but the fun has gone out of it.

I have two very nice non-smart watches that I would like to wear, but I do need alarms and timers. The sound on both watches is far too quiet for me to hear, even when there is very little ambient noise. That may be partly my aging hearing, but younger people assure me that they really are too quiet to be reliable.

My next move is likely to be switching to one of my non-smart watches and using my phone for alarms and timers. So basically, giving up and going back to what I was doing fifteen years ago. Thanks for all the forward progress, Google.

The app has not been updated recently, which must explain this.

That makes sense, given what we’re seeing. I hope the app will eventually get smarter about upgrades, but I can’t complain too much. It’s a new feature and a very welcome one.

I certainly won’t argue with that.

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach
Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Hallellujah Chorus from The Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Fanfare-Rondeau from the First Suite de Symphonies (the Masterpiece Theater Theme) by Jean-Joseph Mouret
Clarinet Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel
The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

A few centuries is not timeless, but it is an indication of long term endurance.

There was a change to the Obtanium set for IronFox a month or so back. I don’t remember the details, but I did have to reconfigure my settings for it. It has been working just fine since then.

Now all that needs is a 16 Petabyte drive to store the database. Well, that and a buyer who wants all of that on their machine.

I understand what it was intended to mean, but that isn’t how it has worked out in practice. Other people usually end up dealing with the negative consequences of whatever got broken.

It it’s still available, the Lumintop HL3A meets your requirements. It runs Anduril and will accept flat or button-top 18650s.

The Fireflies PL47 should work too. It’s designed for the 21700, but it will take an 18650 with an adapter and it seems to work with both flat and button tops.

Congratulations on finding something. The job market is scary right now.

I don’t think it’s even clever. Sociopathic behavior is mostly fairly obvious. It isn’t that they think to do things we never considered; it’s that we consider and reject those ideas because they are obviously harmful to others.

In the past, societies dealt with people like that by shunning, imprisoning, or executing them. Now a significant part of the public idolizes them and just wishes they could get away with the same crimes. That scares me more than than people like Marc and Elon. It’s hard to enforce laws against criminal behavior when a large part of the population thinks it’s all okay.

I don’t know how anyone ever thought Zuckerberg was a decent human being. He has been telling us otherwise, quite clearly, at every opportunity. That motto is just another piece of evidence.