"No Google Play services" falls under "app must be FOSS". The average publicly developed open source app should not have much trouble getting into F-Droid if the developer wants to. Google Play services consists of several components, one of which is a proprietary library included in apps using it. If your app includes proprietary code, it is not FOSS.

If Signal decided a build without proprietary blobs isn't worth it, they're not getting into F-Droid. Forks of Signal exist that remove the Google Play services build requirement, those are in F-Droid.

Signal […] cannot be found on F-Droid. I have to get it via Obtainium instead.

You can get Molly on F-Droid. It's a soft fork that iimplements UnifiedPush, among other things.

I think Mastodon and Element use Google's push notification service.

I have microG installed, and both apps show up as registered for cloud messaging.

Signal, the messenger that lags code sumps for a year so they can get a leg up with insider knowledge of their own cryptocurrency?

They released all the info, including pcb cads, sensor info, etc.

There are case stls available for the Pebble 2, not sure about the rest (P2s were the most... fragile).

And you? You're always right.

I disagree with calling it "dumb". it was perfect for it's niche. I want a watch to show the time, basic notifications, media control... not send an email.

Pebble always on screen and long battery life was perfect for a wearable. all other smartwatches are basically miniaturized phones that do way too much in a screen that can't handle it. If something is easier to do on the phone, it does not need to work on a smartwatch.

Hopefully the new pebbles are good, I am worried that the new one's touch screen will make a touch based UI, which suck on tiny screens,

I vaguely remember it being amazing but again vaguely remember it. I know it was my 1st smartwatch though!!

Personally think it would be cool to have dumb watch option and smart watch option for buying

But yeah those use cases are pretty good

Man you should see the new ones, the battery actually lasts 17 days.

ricecake gave a good answer already. In the EU you have 2 years. In the first 12 months the company has to prove that it wasn't their fault, in the next 12 months you have to prove it was their fault.

If no such law is in place, nothing protects you from them using cheap materials that break after a few months.

E.g. I once had a free xbox-replica controller every year because their product was shit and it broke after ~6-9 months. They had to replace it and did so three times. Then I got my money back. Selling * doesn't work here.

Some countries have more consumer protections than the US does, and consumers from there are wary of the lack of assurances a lot of us products have.

To them, it's like being told you have to pay for your food at the restaurant even if they mess up your order and you don't get to eat it. It doesn't matter that the waiter probably isn't going to drop your food on the floor, throw it away and then give you a bill: the fact that they could makes you not want to go there.

Likewise, your watch will almost certainly not break via factory defect after more than a month, but the expectation is that if they sell you something it'll either last the expected lifetime or be suitably replaced or refunded on failure.

We're used to our particular blend of capitalist hellscape, so a company saying they'll replace things if they're obviously broken the moment you buy it, but beyond than you're out of luck just seems normal. It's on us to make sure they don't mail us subtly damaged microelectronics and tiny lithium bombs.

Time for a PineTime Pro I guess 😜

Oh shit. I should have been a little more detailed. The black pebble watches were damaged during transit and a lot of people had to get white ones instead.