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Cake day: August 24th, 2024

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  • When I got my new phone recently, I asked of it what is by a wide margin my most common voice task; setting a timer for something I was cooking.

    It presented a UI suggesting it had understood the assignment, but utterly failed to actually set the timer.

    It was at that point I reverted to Assistant and forgot it existed.

    This feels par for the course though; a bunch of effort spent on a few “hard” tasks to make it seem impressive, but zero on maintaining existing functionality that normal people actually use on a regular basis.


  • Yes, but you shouldn’t.

    After a reboot, a lot of phones can only use the device’s default keyboard app for entering the unlock pin/password.

    If you’ve removed or disabled it, you can get into a situation where you have no keyboard at all, and a delightful chicken-and-egg situation of needing a keyboard you don’t have until after unlocking the device to enter the code to unlock the device.

    (A USB keyboard will let you escape this, for what that’s worth)



  • While I have a personal general rule against backing electronics on Kickstarter and would likely wait for it to be available at retail, I wouldn’t necessarily immediately discount this one.

    It’s probably worth noting - mentioned in Jeff Geerling’s video - they had a MOQ of 1500 on the metal case, which likely forced them to be significantly further through the process than a lot of Kickstarters are at launch.