Over the holidays, I had a good back and forth with the maintainer of a project that I started using. The documentation needed updating and created a PR.
Then I went almost 10 comment rounds on why it was necessary, why I wrote it the way I did, and all this bullshit.
I just left it saying “merge it or whatever. I’m moving on.”
Are you sure the hardware is still there? I only ask because given the number of hackers out there, I’m surprised someone hasn’t come out with a patch or something to make it more ubiquitous.
IR blaster was the shit. Back then, there was an app called beep and go (I think) that held the barcodes for your loyalty cards. For someone that collected them like baseball cards, it was really handy.
Anyway, Samsung actually had the ability to transmit the barcode via the IR blaster which some scanners could read if they couldn’t read the barcode on the phone.
It was awesome!
I agree that the heart rate monitor was a bit of a gimmick though.