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What’s the microSD card for?
Just for carrying around an extra microSD from what I can tell. I genuinely don't see that being handy, but more of a feel good, maybe nerd cred point?
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Yes, the “auto-only” base Seiko movement is pretty annoying, if you’re not wearing it everyday. For anyone who hasn’t experienced one, imagine that when you want to wind your watch, you have to turn it dial up in your hand and rotate the whole watch for 30 seconds (the so-called seiko shake) such that you spin the rotor inside. I ended up swapping my SKX movement out for a hacking / hand-winding movement too, much be…
That sounds terrible lol. And then you have to find some other clock to reset it after you rotate it. Is 30 seconds always enough? I'd be nervous of it running slow.
Also it's something I only have to do when I haven't worn it in a few days, so there's a limit to how much of it you have to do. (Worst case is if you wear the watch for one day every three days or something. Any less or more wearing and you have to wiggle it less often.)
Can the ROM be read and flashed back on Casio watches? I once bought a solar G-shock but the watch UI is horrible: it does not display the battery charge anywhere on the watch. Instead, it wants you to install a Casio app that connects to the watch via BT. However, even the app doesn't show the battery charge with more than a few scrambled pixels in a small icon. So, useless. I still don't know how much battery I had…
> Can the ROM be read and flashed back on Casio watches? I doubt that they use any kind of reprogrammable memory, but you can swap out the entire board like I did: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/pluto
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Also Braun. Beautiful but pricey. https://braun-clocks.com/collections/digital-watches
Weird. It briefly shows a watch but changes to "No products were found matching your selection." But if I inspect the network tab, I do see the file: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0278/8851/7235/collections...
I then bought a DW-5600E on special, it's great. Hoping to hold onto it for a bit longer!
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I don't have a video link handy, but this British mod dude has a very brief summary: Guide.Zenn22.Shop (redirects to a steam site I think). He has many modded F91W's on eBay. I have one "fake" F91W, it's actally SKMEI branded and keeps fine time. Not sure I believe his claim that the fakes are so inaccurate, but maybe.
How do you like SKMEI? Backlight must be way better than F91W.
I've been wearing a Casio F-91W for a number of years now and it really is a joy. It's always there, and it always works. I've gone down the rabbit hole with expensive time pieces but they become a burden / obligation rather than a tool - especially as the prices of certain pieces in the secondary market have gone so high - so over time I've reverted back to much cheaper watches and find myself getting more joy out o…
Luckily Casio makes a gold-colored version for special occasions.
Is there even a watch with a vibration alarm with battery that lasts more than a few days? (Mine advertises a 10 year battery life).
I find all gshocks only have sound alarm, no vibration.
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yes, I love mine too. However, after a very dark december mine stopped (and I was very confused by it ;)). Had to put it on the window sill for a few days for it to work again. My personal advice for anyone looking would be the following triumvirate: solar ("eco-drive"), sapphire glass (never mineral glass!), radio controlled. It just works - you don't have to do anything ever again (except maybe if you have a decemb…
I recall reading that the radio time signal is being decommissioned in the us
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I use to work at a place that included parking in rfid activated ramp. I always wanted to clone my badge into something sewn into the wrist of my motorcycle jacket so I didn't have to fumble for my badge while entering and leaving the ramp. In a watch would be perfect.
How would you go about doing something like that? Are RFID chips that insecure?
At the high end of NFC communication you have the basically the same chips used in smartcards (like payment cards/sim cards/etc) running with limited power, but theoretically able to run all the same apps. These can be cryptographically secure.
At the other end, a lot of rfid tags are very easy to just read and clone, including many involved in access control systems. These often just work based on the uid number that is freely readable, and most of the protocols have chips available where the user can write this "globally unique" id that would normally be written by the factory.
