Haven't tried it yet but there's OpenMuse for the Athena S Muse headband.

I think there's an open source Whoop firmware now for that.

They are nice in cold weather to "hold you over" on short drives before the air heating warms the car up.

My Civic remote start with the key fob will automatically turn them on when it's cold.

I've had (what I think is) the Renpho Elis 1 for years and have been happy with it. Was like $20-25 from Amazon I think in 2018 and still works fine

Same here - £17 in the UK three years ago and it's been... fine.

It takes normal AA batteries (which I've had to replace only once), the results tally up with the properly-calibrated scale at my gym, and the app doesn't have any particular annoyances. I'm on Android and it syncs fine with Google services, but it claims to do Apple Health too.

Honestly, it's one of the better pieces of tech I've bought in the past few years, and I don't see how a fancier / more expensive brand could be noticeably better.

Found out on 1.x it goes crazy with file watches. If you launch in a top level directory with lots of sub directories, iirc it can create millions of watches X2

Not sure if it's fixed in 2.x. There's some way to get it to not do that with ignore files or rules but not sure exactly how--I had Claude fix it...

Don't worry, it's janky on my Pixel 11 as well

ACP?

No because it doesnt get backgrounded and I would need to hold one end of the stream at all time, and feature completedness is spotty

I use the protocol claude code terminal use to talk to its server to spawn agents, opencode server protocol which is published for the same purpose, and manage pi command lines by pid

The one that Claude Agent SDK uses?

I generally trust benchmarks but my personal experience in the last 6-9 months is they have little relation to real LLM performance, unfortunately.

I've had better luck just running a few of my own simple tests.

It's almost turning into something as good as standardized testing for humans...helpful indicator, but can be gamed.

Really Lowes and Home Depot have been doing better imo for anything they have. Their website actually has filters and decent search and most stuff is free next day delivery. On top of that, the Chinese knockoffs are fairly minimal or at least more established knock-off brands.

On top of that, that's without a $150/yr subscription.

Costco and Chewy are also pretty good.

I thought you could push a non user writable config that could control pretty much everything since... Forever?

Along with that, push extensions to add DLP bits, etc

There is, but the configuration and deployment methods are platform-specific, so you'd need to maintain one set of GPOs, another set of .mobileconfig, etc

Then if you need to change something, you need to change those individally per platform.

With this you can set it up and centrally manage them from a single dashboard, the only thing you need to do is to do the platform-specific enrollment once.

I'm glad Mozilla is trying to find a way to monetize the platform in exchange of providing a tool to better manage the browser at the enterprise level.

You used to be able to also do a .conf or .js file and iirc the only thing different between platforms was the path.

I think it's policies.json and mozilla.cfg

Yes, Firefox was already configurable through enterprise policies that an admin could deploy.

Firefox Enterprise tries to remove as much friction there as possible, and adds a pile of features like deployment monitoring, policy changes while running, device posture checks, various security features like SIEM logging, etc.

The other part is that you get the option to run all supporting services entirely on premise, so the browser never has to "phone home" to us, but you still have working updates, sync support, and so on.

One really nice thing I've never seen anyone do is some kind of admin triggered internet test for remote workers. Could be a very basic extension even that did a quick test for latency, throughout, packet loss, etc. Would be especially great if it could test normal internet (WAN) and direct access to the enterprise network (on prem or some cloud resource over whatever protocol is in use)

Noted! Thanks for the suggestion.

Cloudflare Access does that. I suspect other SASE/zero trust solutions probably also do (iirc it does everything you've named)

As an extension ?

Firefox works with uBlock--maybe that alone is enough incentive