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Do you have to input "date +%T" to get it to display the time?

@neil that looks very similar in h/w to my BangleJS v1

@neil I used to have a LG Urbane I had AsteroidOS but I sold it and got a PineTime instead and haven't looked back, I changed the battery on the Urbane but it reset the time and everything whenever it ran out of power so I couldn't be bothered with it anymore.

Love my PineTime though

@neil where did you get the from?

@neil What's the battery life like compared to the (claimed) battery life with wearos etc.

I'd have thought a reasonably stripped down linux could last ages, but can't find any comparisons for asteroidos.

@neil hmmm i have one in a drawer... does it still tell the time?

@neil
Can you play Doom on this watch yet, Neil?

@neil Oh, neat! I hadn't heard of an alternative to WearOS or whatever Google's calling it now, I'll have to check this out!

@neil Now, only if I could do that to a CMF Watch 1.

@neil Jealous! May I ask what model, and rough second hand price?

@neil another failed roll on willpower check then? Damn these "fair", "unloaded" dice

@neil May I ask which version of the tikwatch that is?

@neil The TicWatch does not - to the best of my knowledge - come with a charging dock that has data lines?

@neil I had a brief go at non-Pebble watches via AsteroidOS on a Huawei watch. It was running really hot and the battery lasted super short until I ssh'd in to check `top` and found a process pinning the CPU at 100%. Killed it and the battery was... better (lasted a few hours), but sadly was not viable for me. I wish you better luck though!

@neil I just realized my PineTime has the InfiniTime firmware on it, Just I'd bought a sealed one from eBay, never even realized the InfiniTime was a different firmware than stock

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So, as one does, I ssh'd into AsteroidOS on the watch from termux on my phone, to use connmanctl to disable Wi-Fi.

Neil...

@neil I feel this xkcd applies here. https://xkcd.com/2501/

@neil Oh, good to know, thanks for sharing!
As my watch keeps deteriorating (dropped it a couple of times, one time strongly enough to chip the screen, fixed with uv resin, then strongly enough to shatter a larger part, fixed it with a screen protector) I’ve been slowly looking at alternatives, haven’t seen this one yet.

@neil The worrying part of that is I immediately knew that it shows up as a ethernet adaptor pretty much.

RNDIS and there's another similar protocol that apple likes to support but I forget the name of (my ZTE F50 supports both)

@neil I've known someone get stuck in a car-park for ages because they said yes to a VW OTA update :-/

@neil @AsteroidOS
Not a project for YOU, Neil.
Very difficult for Me.
(In grateful memory of Senor Wences.)

@neil I tripped up the stairs and spilt my drink, and *still* had more success than #jeep updating it's car's firmware

#fail

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Remotely updating firmware on a vehicle that is underway doesn't seem like the best of ideas though.

Thought that would be fairly obvious TBH 🤔🤷‍♂️

@neil @AsteroidOS Modern Linux just isn't any good these days.

It used to be that you could get *days* of entertainment just out of installing Linux, even on a PC. Nowadays, you don't even get half an hour of entertainment out of installing it on a wristwatch...

(*) For vanishingly small values of "entertainment".

@neil Did you do it while driving 50 mph?

@neil presumably you didn’t do it while you were driving.

@neil Could be worse. And by worse I mean better. Could've been CDC ACM, or even an actual FTDI serial, and then PPP over that.

@neil is that a Rolex? No, but you can ssh in to it. Pwfwarrrr

@neil it’s so you!

@neil STOP FELLOW ROBOT! This is a capcha trap that the meatbags want us to fall for!

@neil How else would you do it, a happy rat dance on the buttons? [shakes head sadly]

"You can ssh into your watch using RNDIS over USB to configure Wi-Fi"

Things a Perfectly Normal Human would say.

@neil That should also work via GadgetBridge, if you're already using it.