• Quazatron@lemmy.world
    32·
    2 hours ago

    I seem to have a tendency, a skill, a knack to choose and buy that specific hardware model that is not supported by these cool open source projects.

    Same thing happened with PostmarketOS, I have a box full of old phones that are specifically not supported.

    It’s a really shitty superpower.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Looking at the list of supported watches, there are only 2 with 5 star support and they seem quite old / obscure. I couldn’t find any to buy second hand anyway.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Nah, it is pretty much if you didn’t buy one of 2 trendy models of the year, then nothing else has ever or will ever be supported (of course you can always write your own drivers but it is a ton of work, especially for non-coders)

      I have a thought that a lot of the enthusiasts that go through the pain and effoet of writing all of these drivers for old phones they have were usually the kind of people to buy the best/most popular device of the year

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 hours ago

    If it doesn’t support .beat time, I don’t care!

    (Just kidding, always happy to see Linux in more places. But I do want my metric time.)

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    13·
    2 hours ago

    I would think Linux would be way too heavy for these watches. A lot of them use pretty lean MCUs, a far cry from the beefy Qualcomm phone chips that Post market runs on.

    Even running zephyr on the NRF52840 can get heavy with adding a bunch of apps to it.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
      1·
      39 minutes ago

      I mean, look at the specs of a smart TV or smart fridge. The specs on them are shit and they run Linux.

      Hell there are whole distros designed to run on minimal as fuck hardware.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Nah, it’s not “too heavy” the linux kernel is running on all kinds of tiny processors.

      My limited understanding is, that usually the problem is a lack of support and assistance from the hardware manufacturer to optimise the OS for their hardware.

      This is why GrapheneOS and similar have poorer performance on phones et cetera.