Posts in category 'buyitforlife'

Stories like this are why, despite being in tech for decades, I tend to avoid closed smart devices:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/fossil-smartwatches-go-extinct-company-quits-wear-os-ecosystem/

An analog or old school digital watches can work for decades, but remotely updatable, closed digital devices can be subject to rug pulls at the whim of their controling corporations. We’ve seen this repeatedly with IoT devices and it was only a matter of time before a major wearable went the same route.

I have an old first gen Kindle PW that I jailbroke and had to fall back to after I dropped my more recent model (oops!)

On a lark I decided to put KOReader on the thing, and darn it, I wish I’d done it sooner. Setting aside all the fancy config settings, wireless Calibre connectivity is just crazy convenient. Should’ve done it sooner!

It goes to show how open devices can be better and have greater longevity. But, you know. Amazon.