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[–] 173 points 1 year ago (8 children)

For a second there I thought you actually accessed the bios on the watch and it looked like that haha.

Awesome!

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    ARM devices kinda dont have a bios, so sadly this wouldnt be possible :(

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    It does say "BIOS Setup Utility" at the top tho...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I know, I meant it as if they were to access something.

    And you could have BIOS-themed custom recovery.
    I am sure it could be done. Just compare the usual volume button-navigated stock recovery with something like TWRP which could really be considered a small OS.

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  • [–] 160 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    β€œHey, what watch is that?”

    Me: β€œAmerican Megatrends.”

    β€œβ€¦β€

    Me: β€œit’s EnergyStar compliant.”

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  • [–] 99 points 1 year ago

    Unironically I like that

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    Looks neat, but I think the actual time display is way too small to be useful.

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    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Looks like the same watch I have. Where do I get this?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Those are some nice looking arms

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Did you stop to consider that they might be an amputee on the other side, and that your pluralization of the word "arm" is causing immense emotional pain and turmoil right now and that the watch face is digital and has no arms. No. You only think about yourself. /S?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I've used Facer, it's worth the cost if you like accessorizing regularly. It has a lot of options from indie artists, including replica OG Disney Mickey Mouse. My watch always complains about not being able to save power with 3rd party faces though, and the battery life drops about 40% to 72 hours. Worse with Facer because it's an app that's no doubt doing more than facilitating watchfaces.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Google is pushing towards WFF (Watch Face Format) styles. The new Wear OS 5 watches, IIRC, (not the upgraded ones) didn't even support Facer or Watchmaker initially.

    The Watch faces published on Play Store, majority of them, are now in WFF format which translates to improved battery life as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What watch is it by the way? I haven't moved into the realm of wearables yet. Maybe next year will be my year to start

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    Def worth upgrading to the 6 classic or even 8 classic

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Wow. Didn't think I'd get nostalgia flashbacks from a watch face but here we are.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My coworker likes it and wants to know where this can be found.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Thanks I hate it

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I LOVE it!!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I thought this was templeos

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wow, there's a reference I didn't think I'd come across. Did you ever try using it? I was curious but never did...didn't have a use case for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, never bothered. I think it'd be fun to fool around in, but I don't think it'd be worth the trouble. I don't even have a way to run VMs set up on any of my computers at the moment so I'd need to download Virtual Box or qemu.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Almost makes me want a smart watch

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  • Advanced

    What would the advanced options do?

    Oh wait, settings. Then Boot would launch apps.

    Probably.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I really wish the Apple Watch were this customizable. This is so cool.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    this is awesome

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Love that you put a Freestyle strap on a smart watch.

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  • I'd prefer to see more things like if it's going to rain soon and other meteorological parameters, but love the look

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Reminds me of the PineTime's Terminal face

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This feels like a recipe for screen burn, but I assume whatever elements the watch uses for pixels don't do that, and it's just the bad side of nostalgia making me feel that way.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I've been using the always-on display of my OLED smartwatch 24/7 since 2022 (Samsung Watch 4 Classic). Burn-in is a non-issue. The watch face goes into AOD mode when you're not looking at it; I'm not sure which burn-in protection features are being used but they work well cause I can use the same watch face for months at a time without any signs of burn-in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    notes: Facer is a little bit of a PITA to install, follow the instructions very well.

    GW4: It eats about twice as much battery as my normal faces, but I'm still lasting the day.

    The text is WAY too small, but it's pretty fun.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (15 children)

    I feel like the only person in the world who uses a regular analog watch face (and uses the always on display setting) so that my watch actually looks like a watch.

    (Is it true that Gen Z and younger can't read analog clocks? Might explain this behavior.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I feel like the only person that can't stand to wear a watch. Until cellphones came out, I just got really good at estimating the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel you but for me the body tracking features make it worth it. If you're a Fallout fan, it's like having a real-life PipBoy. The only thing missing is VATS.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I specifically bought a smart watch for that purpose, first watch I've bought in over 20 years, and it sits there and gathers dust because it's so annoying to have something hanging on my wrist. I might also be less wigged out by them if I could put my own OS on it instead of having the Google spyware only.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My watch face is always analog, but that's mostly because it's an analog watch.

    What's the added value of a smart watch here?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well I'm a statistics nerd, so I like all the sensors on the watch for sleep and health tracking. I can see exactly how long I slept in each phase, track my snoring, stress levels, muscle mass, body fat, and body water; compare calories burned to calories consumed, make sure my heart is being correctly with the ECG, check my pulse and blood pressure. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

    It's basically like having a PipBoy IRL (it even has the light!). And to me that's really fucking cool. Only feature missing is VATS.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Sounds like a tamagotchi, but for keeping yourself alive :)

    How does it track calories consumed? Or isthat something you do seperately?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah I have to enter the food I eat manually. But it's not difficult cause all I have to do is either scan the barcode or take a picture of my meal and then quickly verify that it identified everything correctly.

    And FWIW I only log my meals when I'm trying to lose weight. Which is right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I tried to do that some time ago, but got bored of weighing everything. Is taking a picture generally enough to estimate weights and stuff? I remember it made a lot of difference if a salad has an oil dressing for example, or how much peanut butter you put on a sandwich.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah I'm not that precise. Just like when cooking, I don't weigh anything. I use my experience to make a rough estimate.

    I'm confident that getting close enough with my measurements (maybe even overestimating a bit) because my weight loss currently tracks with what I'm expecting to lose, given what I'm eating (aimed to lose a pound per week, currently losing ~1.3lb). And close enough is good enough for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    Wouldn't surprise me if many young people can't, I'm on the edge between millenial and gen z and reading an analog clock always needs some active effort. I've always preferred digital so I never really had to read analog clocks besides the one that hung in our kitchen and that one time I had a watch. Oh and the train stations still all have analog.

    Kitchen clocks, if they aren't just the oven or microwave, are probably becoming rarer, so when your watch is also digital, you'd never really encounter analog if it's not somewhere in the public space, which will probably depend on where you live.

    I'd guess most kids probably still can read one with effort because at least when there's a second hand (since you can easily see it move) it's kinda self explanatory, and it probably got explained in school once.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    ❀️

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Now I want a smartwatch!!! Just for this...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ok damnit, i'll install facer :)

    That was a little bit of a fight to install, but not miserable.

    Wish the font was a touch larger and it would be cool to have some complications.

    still, pretty fire.

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