stage7 :windmill: on Nostr: Last night my #Pebble Time crashed badly. The screen only showed an URL to ...
Last night my #Pebble Time crashed badly. The screen only showed an URL to troubleshoot it except... the web it was pointing to had been long dead since Fitbit bought Pebble in 2016 and Google bought Fitbit later, and the hard redirect loaded a generic 404 page. Dayum.
But thanks to the #Rebble team, who have been maintaining this workable piece of tech alive, a legacy page with instructions has been properly kept that pops up when searching the original link. In a matter of minutes I was able to recover my watch, reflash the firmware and have it alive again as if nothing had happened.
The moral of the story is:
- Big corpos suck, they won't let us have nice things.
- I hope Google burns to the ground.
- Yay, FOSS.
- Treat your furries and queer pals nice, they do care and will rescue your cute devices even in the direst situations.
But thanks to the #Rebble team, who have been maintaining this workable piece of tech alive, a legacy page with instructions has been properly kept that pops up when searching the original link. In a matter of minutes I was able to recover my watch, reflash the firmware and have it alive again as if nothing had happened.
The moral of the story is:
- Big corpos suck, they won't let us have nice things.
- I hope Google burns to the ground.
- Yay, FOSS.
- Treat your furries and queer pals nice, they do care and will rescue your cute devices even in the direst situations.