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Rad_Dad6969 t1_j2xhto1 wrote

This would be nice if you owned the data. If it wasn't a networked device and was capable of making these determinations without sending your PHI back and forth between your toilet, your phone, and their web servers.

Make a device that can analyze my pee without sending that data anywhere, and maybe then we'll talk.

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pnlrogue1 t1_j2xfryv wrote

The only problem with that idea is this one:

  1. Send something to the e-ink.
  2. Battery dies before you finish what you're doing and the phone shuts off.
  3. No battery/phone shutdown means the e-ink never appears and you lost the benefit of being able to save something for when the phone's dead.

Surmountable problem (and probably a rare issue anyway) but would be irritating if you were in that situation where you don't realise your battery is so low so your phone shuts down before turning on the e-ink!

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iindigo t1_j2xbifm wrote

Nobody is going to buy this exclusively for use with a console, but it’s a nice value add for a work-play home office setup where the monitor is doing double duty. Have it hooked up to the company provided MacBook during the day, and then flip over to your PS5 or whatever in the evening. The monitor obviously won’t run at the console’s native resolution but with its pixel density that’s not too much of a problem.

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iindigo t1_j2xb1e4 wrote

> But why mini DisplayPort rather than a full-sized one?

Hard to say but I’d guess due to space constraints.

> And shame about only having one HDMI port despite it being advertised as being able to have 2 computers connected at once.

You can still have two computers connected, one through Thunderbolt and one through miniDP + upstream USB. Could add a third with the HDMI port but that’s more suited to a streaming box or game console than it is for a computer.

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