It is. It's just taking something obvious and recontextualizing in language that sounds like a Mysterious Conspiracy when it's really just a banal truth we all take for granted because all the other options make less sense. Like using tau over pi in geometry.
The 36 hour battery life also isn't a best-case scenario. According to apple.com
"All-day battery life is based on the following use: 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 60-minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, over the course of 18 hours;"
Well written article and interesting results, thank you.
I'm surprised that there has been input latency of tens of milliseconds with the said setup. How much are typical input latencies in comparable Windows laptops and Macs?
I don't have any results for Windows or macOS yet unfortunately. I wanted to run these tests on Windows eventually, and include things like cmd.exe and the Windows Terminal. Maybe when I get around to re-benchmarking a wider range of terminals. Mac would certainly be interesting to include, but I don't have access to any of those.
I would encourage you to do these sort of tests yourself, the hardware involved is pretty inexpensive (I'd expect you should be able to get something for <$50)
Thanks, this simple sentence told me more than all of the texts on the site combined. I tend to skip introduction videos, so all my questions might have been answered there.
The site mentions "Create a Relay in the Sumario dashboard". This raises couple of questions for me:
- What is a relay? Is it just configuration?
- What is Sumario dashboard? Is this something I host as Sumario is open source or is it hosted?
Also since there's "It's free to get started. No credit card required." then what's the pricing? I'm not going to create an account if you are not open about the costs.
With little tweaks I think the site would be more appealing.
Sorry for my late response. Thanks for taking the time to checkout the Sumario website!
A relay is just a collection of settings, e.g. a name, the email address where form submissions will be sent, and the action url to be included in the form.
The dashboard is just the main view within Sumario. The dashboard lists relays, and provides an example form to test relays.
Yes, relays and the dashboard are covered in the video and animations, but I understand some people prefer written documentation. We know we need to make this better.
1000 "credits," i.e. form submissions, is $5 USD (about a 3x mark-up on our Postmark costs but excludes Fly.io). Agreed, this should definitely be included in the website.
It's all about how you value your time. These kind of quests are usually very valuable learning tool and fun. I have learned a lot with hobby projects which didn't create any value as end products but were valuable to me.
There is also a cumulative value in your knowledge and understanding when hacking on things for such specific personal niggles - which over time makes future efforts more likely to reap some combination of higher rewards, faster execution and less effort... and more often than not what we learn can be applied to our day jobs in unforeseen ways.
Having a problem organically emerge in front of us that affects us personally is just a really easy thread to pull on for learning things.
45 minutes can be a lot if you keep it in hand over night for sleep tracking. You'd then need a to find a 45 minute slot every day to charge it and be consistent with it. With one day battery life you can't forget to charge it every morning for example. Or what if you didn't bring a charger with you for an overnight trip? Anything less than a full two day battery life is a deal breaker for me.
I've found the iPhone notifications to be very handy in this regard though - I throw my watch on the charger when I shower and then pick it up whenever my phone notifies me it is done charging.
It takes 8 minutes to charge for a full night's sleep tracking according to Apple. That's about the time it takes to wash and floss your teeth coincidentally :)
I usually take my AW2 off when I wake up and put it in the charger while I do my morning stuff. Same with showering etc.
