Just for comparison - prices back in 2016:
Pebble 2: $99 Early Bird, retail price: $129
Pebble Time 2: $169 Early Bird, retail price: $199
Well, it still is end-to-end encrypted. Just from your end to Apple’s end. 😂
Funny enough I had activated the Advanced Protection (which deletes the iCloud encryption key from Apple’s servers) like a week before that UK thing went into effect. And since Apple isn’t allowed to talk about this, there’s no pressure to deactivate it again so far.
I’ve been there in the early days, when it was still called “Joyn” in Europe. That was around 2008/2009.
It’s just that US carriers have partnered with Google to provide their RCS support.
Not sure if I’d call this “partnered”. AFAIK every carrier can provide their own RCS infrastructure via some data on the SIM. However, as Google wanted to push RCS, they’ve added a fallback to their own servers into the Android Messaging app. And I guess this then became somewhat of a “standard”.
And carriers are busy enough counting all that money we pay them, so they were happy to not having to do anything.
The AI bit is just for auto-detecting physical cards and create wallet cards from that or so. I’ve never used that.
What I usually do is to create Wallet passes myself. It’s, of course, not as easy and seamless as your solution, but I get nice beautiful wallet passes that pop up automatically when nearing the location and can be kept as a souvenir. I prefer the app MakePass for this as that one makes clean proper wallet passes.
“European Starlink rival” is a bit far fetched when there’s merely rumours that they might be able to offer a similar service. But that’s the stock market for you.
This feature also popped up in the latest versions of MacFamilyTree/MobileFamilyTree. (“Sociogram”)
Of the EU possibly, not Britain.
I might rename them. So, e.g. if I’d add another Pi5, the existing one would become rpi5-1 and the new one rpi5-2.
Wait until I tell you about all the small issues this zoo of devices brings with it… haha.
That one was called just rpi.domain.com, but didn’t stand the test of time…
MacBook Pro: mbp.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 2: rpi2.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 3: rpi3.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 4: rpi4.domain.com
Raspberry Pi 5: rpi5.domain.com
(Yes, I have one of each.)
Synology DS415+: ds415.domain.com
Phone: iphone.domain.com
Watch: watch.domain.com
AppleTV: appletv.domain.com
Nintendo Switch: switch.domain.com
A similar project in Europe (well, mostly Germany) is Freifunk.
Unless you’re using outdated server software, there’s nothing inherently insecure with exposing ports to the Internet. Be it port 80 or 443. Just keep everything up to date and maybe add fail2ban to stop people poking around.
+1 for INWX
Zabbix. It has native HTTP items and can do JavaScript and JSON processing on whatever comes back. All configurable via GUI.
The xxx3 seems to be a slightly upgraded version that adds a colour LCD and USB charging ports. Apart from that, it seems to have the same features as the one without the 3. And the -R seems to indicate a “restored”/“refurbished” model.
Did you configure NAT to the service(s) and/or DMZ to your internal server in your ISP’s router?
Not allowing even ping seems like it is against any sane networking configuration.
But technology and production methods got way cheaper in the past few years…