Personally I use mine (which is a toaster oven / air fryer combo) because it's faster and easier to clean. So if I'm making something that fits in it, that's my choice
Not a great angle, but this is my trusty commuter (and only bike....). This past fall I started commuting year round, and am loving it. I abused it a little over the winter with the snow and salt, but it now has a new drivetrain...
I just poked on the demo and I think it could, however it might be a bit clunky. Maybe could be a viable thing to request of the dev. Maybe alongside a donation for a sort of bounty.
I think it's gonna end up being bad. Mainly because most people are gonna hear on Fox News that this was due to some flaw in Signal, and just take that at face value. A lot of people are not gonna even read an article about why or what even happened.
I think the point they're making is you can effectively have a self hosted non federated option with Matrix. Just disable federation as a whole (which I'm pretty sure is completely possible. Given companies use matrix for comms, and might not want federation, for similar reasons to what is being discussed here)
Don't have a good rec to add to the discussion of hardware, but I would love to give a shoutout to GadgetBridge, which is an Open Source Android app that is a vendorless alternative to controlling lots of smart wearables (and other gadgets). It doesn't currently have Polar support, but seems that might be fairly easy to implement, since polar publishes their SDK online (and presumably the protocol with which it communicates).
Why would it make sense? Currently on Android, RCS isn't a system level thing like SMS is. So Signal won't easily be able to pull it in. Unless they implement their own implementation of RCS and the Universal Profile.
It would be awesome if Polar was supported by GadgetBridge, because then you could have fully offline and private control of the device.
GB recently got Garmin support and it's pretty solid. I switched from the Garmin app to GB exclusively and haven't lost really any features. Besides the social networking, but that omission is a feature, not a bug.
If it's really 3rd party friendly, I wonder how easy it would be to get support.
203cm clocking in, and I completely agree with you