When you turn Notifications off for showing, they're just in the "inbox" & won't show on the watchface when received. You can then just access them whenever you want from the menu OR you can create a button shortcut that activates when pressing down.
FYI the previous generation of Pebble OS did not have a message counter, but this generation will apparently add this to its complications.
RE: Pocket, I could care less as I've been an Instapaper user for years, but it does give one a hint at the direction Mozilla has been on for a number of years now...
RE: Fakespot, this one really really hurts. Even if the ratings weren't accurate sometimes, it helped guide me in the direction of finding and distinguishing bad/fake products from good (or good enough). I always wondered what their business model was... Sad to see that their competitor Reviemeta also died out. Is there no hope for an alternative to these? Any thoughts on making a service like Fakespot and having it be profitable or at least self-sustaining? I can only think of a subscription service for having curated reviews, maybe prioritizing reviews from susbscribers...
I hope they succeed. Would buy this if it worked offline. Wish Pebble hadn't gone broke and had launched their Pebble Core device. Always thought it was a great idea.
This is easy to fix IMHO. Pair a small screen in the future for typing or have a cuff link mic for whispering. You will see accessories like these pop up in the near future.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution defines free speech as protection from government interference in free expression. Twitter is a corporation, free speech laws don’t apply. It can ban anyone it likes. This is perfectly legal.
The irony is that many people have cited "free speech" in reference to past actions taken by Twitter that they disagreed with politically. And, of course, the biggest irony is that Musk was one of them.
The irony is that Elon said he was buying Twitter in order to enact his "free speech absolutist" policies, and it turns out he really just wanted to ban elonjet and apparently every journalist on his beat.
I'm not sure how much free speech we should assume on someone else's private platform. In theory Elon Musk could close Twitter off to everyone, but his closest friends. In the same way that only a few people can use my phone to make calls. I'm no Musk supporter, but Twitter is his now -- if we don't like it, we should roll out a new "Twitter" -- which I'd happily switch to.
Don't think of the US as having foreign exchange reserves. Other countries have foreign exchange reserves, basically all in US dollar-denominated instruments.
This is misleading if not outright wrong [1][2]. The United States absolutely has foreign reserves, and nearly all countries hold foreign reserves that aren’t solely “basically all in US denominated instruments”. Nor can one just wish away the fact that the USD isn’t the only strong currency in the world, nor the only asset foreign countries hold; diversification doesn’t only apply to individuals.
Q: Would you trust, or find useful, thumbs up reviews from people you follow online? Say you could see a collection of stuff people endorse via Twitter/IG, would that be of value to you?
Kind of. The only issue is that I only use Twitter/IG for personal friends and not "influencer" level people.
I think some of kind of organized curation would be nice. For instance, I follow https://fivebooks.com/ a lot, which asks subject matter experts on their recommendation. Something like that for nice consumer goods would be cool.
But wouldn't it be prone to the same co-opting by anyone holding the bigger bag of money like the endorsing that already exists, just adding to the noise of the influencerdom?
"Friends" and average nobodies already turn scummy as soon as RandomCorp throws in some kind of stupid referral incentive. Celebrities and has-beens can't be trusted when addressing consumer goods. Leveraging social media to bridge the gap between them is what brought us influencers.
