F*** Wayland
I’m gonna need to stop you right there.
Pushing for better candidates means defining a coherent set of qualities one wants in a candidate and then actually doing legwork for them instead of flinging shit everywhere from the lazy safety of your bedroom in your parents’ house.
They boil down to:
Either way the solution is not to engage with them in anyway. You will not convince them to be reasonable and your energy is better spent elsewhere.
Clod code
Don’t need a phone if you never leave your house.
Galaxy brain
You wish.
In 2015 it would’ve shipped with a functional operating system.
Should’ve fucking thought about that before they put him there.
Appreciate the perspective. I’ll keep it in mind, but I generally use extremely cheap headphones with no controls because they don’t last long for me anyway. Between the sweat and the rough use, they only last a few months, and the extra cost for controls is an ongoing loss for me.
If it comes down to it though, I’ll keep your suggestions in mind.
I’m sure a tight belt is a good solution for most people, but I’m going to run right into the same problem I have with armbands - tight elastic is going to trigger my eczema as soon as I start sweating.
And then even if a phone weighed absolutely nothing, I’ve still got to look at the screen to control it, which means either stopping motion or taking my attention off where I’m going, it’s still got to be set to the highest brightness to see anything on the display, and as soon as I’m sweating, the touchscreen becomes almost useless anyway.
Do what works for you, but at the end of the day, I will never be satisfied trying to square peg a general purpose smartphone into the round hole of a run. Devices that were made specifically for this purpose and did it brilliantly used to exist, and don’t now.
Hang onto that Nomad… there’s never been a better running audio player.
Oh, the bouncing is even worse there. I don’t want a phone slamming into my hip repeatedly in the exact same place with every single step for over an hour. When you are running EVERYTHING that isn’t locked down immediately resonates with your run, and if the weight isn’t trivial it throws off your entire stride.
I do like this form factor, and have had some offbrand ones, but the color LCD with backlight drains the battery incredibly fast. The monochrome LCD on a Creative basically uses no energy and is perfectly visible out in the bright sun, even when fast forwarding through podcasts or audiobooks. Still, I’ll take the physical buttons over a touchscreen that can barely work once I start sweating. Also the physical buttons let me actually CONTROL it while I’m running while still paying attention to where I’m going - no need to take my eyes off anything.
Viable if I don’t mind being locked into an ecosystem, and spending 6-7 times as much for something that is more or less guaranteed to lose software support long before it breaks.
They do, but they are INCREDIBLY uncomfortable. Running 10km with an unbalanced extra weight on one of my arms is torturous to me, to say nothing for the skin issues that I get from one of those bands holding the sweat against me the entire run.
Then, on top of that: slipping down the arm, tan lines, the bouncing of it, snagging it on things, how filthy and disgusting they quickly become, how they’re still damp the next day getting ready for a second run…
Might work better for you.
In my experience, once I’m dripping with sweat, a touchscreen is completely useless and non-functional.
It’s not about the implementation - it’s about what passkeys do and don’t do.
Passkeys prevent someone from stealing hashed passwords from the SERVER, but if the server is already compromised badly enough to let someone in, all of the data stored on that server is compromised already anyway. Companies want to use passkeys because there is less involved in implementing secure login credentials, but that is only ONE tiny part of overall end to end security, and I do not for a SECOND believe that they are going to keep on highly skilled, security-minded developers at real salaries when the C-suite says “We’re using passkeys. We’re secure. Fire the high priced developers and get me some interns who can use Claude.”
TLDR: Passkeys are not a magic bullet and they aren’t a game changer, and the false sense of security they push is dangerous.
Once they take the house and the senate, they can stop all that negative legislation that’s been passing, like…
uhhh…
ummmm…
…don’t get me wrong… everyone should absolutely still vote, but even a massive victory is going to fix fuck all, and we should all be prepared for that.
The biggest problem I have with passkeys is big companies aren’t implementing them to improve your security - they’re implementing them because it absolves them of liability and responsibility for implementing good security on THEIR end and allows them to implement whatever the fuck vibe-coded bullshit nonsense they want without any knowledgeable or skilled staff, and even if it’s good for me too, I’m not inclined to do these assholes any favors. It’ll just make them sloppier and lazier on other elements of security and they’ll turn around and put the blame on the user, and courts will go right along with it because nobody in the legal system can find their asses with both hands.
Cat.