If you bought this e-junk in the first place you’re kind of a moron.
OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing
Submitted 5 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://liliputing.com/openpin-is-an-open-source-project-to-revive-humanes-dead-ai-pin/
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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Well I guess it depends on when you bought it. If it was off eBay recently to try this new open platform that would be way less moronic.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
Why?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is the question that should’ve been asked before it was built and shipped.
Now that it has been, though, any effort to keep it out of landfill and find a use for the hardware is good.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
No, it’s useless. Put your energy somewhere else like Linux phones.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
But why
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It sounds like they’re trying to do whatever they can to replicate the previous functionality, but without the company who made it getting in the way, the hardware itself is kind of interesting. I hear the battery life sucks and nothing on it is exactly novel, but I’d be interested to see what people could do with it’s fancy display options combined with everything else.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
The hardware itself had a glaring flaw and that was that it would overheat every 5 minutes and even be uncomfortably warm on it’s wearer.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Why not?
warmaster@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why would anyone need to run Doom on medical equipment?
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why would anyone want to revive this piece of sluggish useless piece of crap?
cardfire@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Maybe because it’s got a CPU and memory, and beer waste harms us all?
I’m all in favor of upcycling.
smayonak@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I’m fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
if someone has ideas, I say let them cook. Open sourcing this can’t be bad for anyone imo.
Though I agree in a way, I don’t understand what anyone found potentially useful with this thing in the first place.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
The only catch? You’ll need an interposer to set up an Ai Pin for use with OpenPin. You can either buy one or make your own.
Even more junk for landfill, to salvage a device that is inherently quite useless. It’s good to keep the original hardware running but it’s a shame this requires more hardware.
infeeeee@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The pin runs some android based software as the website mentions adb. It says you will be able to build your own interposer, and they are selling the current official one on Etsy, in a 3d printed case. It doesn’t sound like something made in a factory. I guess it uses some off the shelf usb to jtag chip or similar.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
i wonder how the rabbit is doing?
dan69@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m all for things that can extend its life one more time. Honestly if the hardware was capable of performing on various levels, I’d really like to replace my phone. But again I’m torn between getting a dumb phone or just go back pen pals to whom ever I need to write to/back
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
a cellular smartwatch might be an option for you, maybe alongside an e-reader.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
how many smartwatches existed that can be used without a phone?
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I vaguely wonder what the actual overlap between the sort of people who would buy something like that and people who’d be willing to do this actually is, especially since they didn’t sell a lot in the first place.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
And just like that i went from being absolutely uninterested since inception into kinda wanting one?
r0ertel@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
For those too lazy to click through to the article and don’t know what an Ai Pin is;
The Humane Ai Pin is a wearable, internet-connected AI device designed to offer a phone-free way to interact with an AI assistant from anywhere.
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I feel like there should be a law to release the bits we need to support these efforts.
Too many times a product will die or a company will fold along with all its documentation.
Maybe release a final firmware opening up a product. Or at the very least a git repo with api documentation.
SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’re presuming they they had documentation
toynbee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is also the attitude taken by Ross Scott.
_g_be@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
JayGray91@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Agreed. At least there are efforts to salvage it.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There should be efforts to ensure it never happens again. All companies who abandon products or services should be forced to open source the code
Why should greedy narcissists be allowed to waste humanities finite resources on their limp dick get-rich-quick schemes and failures?
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…