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.
i noticed facer was killing my battery. just a heads up
never a free lunch :(
thanks!
this is awesome
I LOVE it!!
I’d prefer to see more things like if it’s going to rain soon and other meteorological parameters, but love the look
My coworker likes it and wants to know where this can be found.
I thought this was templeos
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.
There is no use case for TempleOS. It’s just a curiosity, albeit an interesting one.
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.
While we’re on the topic; any decent smart watches out there that
- aren’t made by apple
- don’t harvest my data
- don’t stream everything I do straight to china
? I like the concept of a smart watch, but I haven’t really looked into the ecosystem. Preferably one that just integrates nicely with any android phone
Amazfit with Gadgetbridge.
I bought one a couple of years ago and it works great. Gadgetbridge keeps all the smart functionality local to your phone.
I’ve heard good things about the Garmins as well which I think are mostly also supported in Gadgetbridge.
Second this, my wife and I both got one. Look at all the free watch faces. It’s a slight inconvenience to get the Authorization key from a command line, but it’s not very difficult. Gadget Bridge basically fakes the phone side of the app, which means it won’t send your data out and watch thinks everything is fine and normal. Pretty cool. Look at all these free watch faces: https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/
If you’re interested in tinkering or just want a basic smartwatch, Pebble is back
I’d heard it was coming back (sic) but I’d not heard that it will have a 30 day battery life, wow
Seiko lol
Maybe Garmin, Withings or (Chinese owned now) Suunto?
If you’re comfortable with a bit of setup, there are open hardware options on the market. They’re reasonably basic compared to a flagship but phone notifications, some health metrics and telling the time are all quite possible.
PineTime (with Infinitime firmware)
If you want to basically make it from scratch there’s also the Yatchy
Is any of them capable of a “smart alarm” aka waking you at the right phase of sleep?
From a quick search, “sleep as android” seems to have support for both, although people have varying success with it
I use CMF Watch Pro, with Gadgetbridge.
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.)
Here’s mine.
I like how you have three complications all set to the date. That’s fucking funny man.
Anyway here’s mine:
Yeah I got sick of the hands covering the date haha. And nice I like it.
This reminds me of a time when I was wearing watches on both wrists, so that I could easily check the time even if one hand was e.g. carrying a bag
Wait, it’s gonna be Monday all fucking day?! This is bullshit!
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?
I like it for notifications. I can see if a text or notification is important without getting my phone out. Also can see who’s calling without getting my phone out.
It saves you getting your phone out.
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.
Sounds like a tamagotchi, but for keeping yourself alive :)
How does it track calories consumed? Or isthat something you do seperately?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really wish the Apple Watch were this customizable. This is so cool.
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.
If you never change what’s on the screen, you’ll never notice the burn-in
taps head 🧠
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.
Wow. Didn’t think I’d get nostalgia flashbacks from a watch face but here we are.
Thanks I hate it
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For a second there I thought you actually accessed the bios on the watch and it looked like that haha.
Awesome!
ARM devices kinda dont have a bios, so sadly this wouldnt be possible :(
It’s more of a WRIST device I’d say
Heh, nice one 👏
Could be the recovery menu.
It does say “BIOS Setup Utility” at the top tho…
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.
God I wish ARM had a standard…
If you did, it would probably be in mandarin. At least that’s what happened when my Android tablet went to shit.
