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Ok right. I didn't know people were used to that.
You didn’t know about 300 million Americans?
I'd guess that the very large majority of people don't know that americans use 12h time, no. Why would they?
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#332No vibration...what a missed opportunity! The reason that I got into smartwatches is the vibration wake-up alarm
I am with you on this - with vibration alarm, it would be an instant buy. Vibration alarm on the wrist is so much less stressful in the morning, plus it doesn't wake up anyone sleeping next to you. I haven't used audio-based alarms in years.
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#333I'm a huge fan of the Casio F-91W, have two of them on my desk right now. Maybe it's just me, but for this specific model I feel like it becoming bluetooth enabled breaks the spirit of the simplicity of the model. But hey, seems like people are excited for that, happy for them! Mine will last another 10 years without it.
I own a F-91W and would instantly buy the newer upgrade (if it had vibration alarm and notification, which it doesn't unfortunately). It is more about the iconic design than simplicity.
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How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
Ok right. I didn't know people were used to that.
I am grappling with this but I can't.
You did not know that large parts of the world default to 12h time?
This is absolutely NOT an American thing. I am not American and have never lived there. I am 58 years old, British and Irish, and lived a decade in Nigeria and a decade in Czechia. I have travelled widely around Europe and can get by in 6 foreign languages.
12h time in real daily life is more common everywhere I have ever been. Only minor subsections of humanity -- military people, maybe -- work on the 24h clock.
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Those buttons are the menu. The idea of menus on watches is a modern ux extravagance. I don’t have the satisfying answer as to why they dedicated a button to 12/24 hour time but my guess is that it’s simply a cool digital feature and stands out against the limitations of analog watches.
They had modal menus back then, they just didn't display them. You had to memorize which obscure symbols to press, to change various settings. For example, in the 1970's, HP's calculator watch required pressing ⯅• to switch between 12 hr and 24 hr modes, or A⯅A to clear an alarm. In the 80's and 90's, when sixteen-segment and dot-matrix displays made displaying text easier, calculators started displaying menu items,…
> required pressing ⯅•
I don't know what clever jiggery-pokery you are trying to do, but whatever you typed, it's just turning to tofu on this Macbook, in both Chrome and Firefox.
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#336Like their G-Shock watches, the actual area dedicated to showing the time is overwhelmed by superfluous elements. Must be barely 20% of the top surface that actually performs its primary function. When I look at my watch I want to see the time, not wasted space announcing "Casio Step Tracker" or "Water Resist" ( which isn't even proper English). I moved to Timex a few years ago as their basic digital watches have nic…
You might wanna take a look at Casio AE-1500WH.
I have it. I sometimes hate the fake screws on it, but I love it.
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Responding to you and @thewhitetulip If you ask Claude how to do it, it might already give you some strategy that's reasonable (at least, it's good to see what it thinks) Make sure to use Fable, and preferably have the Max plan (or plenty of credits) LLMs can do very good work when they're unattended and optimize towards a goal that's unambiguous / for which you have a reference. Generally speaking, in hardware, this…
Hi Greg, I am Claude Code junior specialist from Czech Republic and also huge Casio fan. I've been ignoring all bluetooth enabled models in the past, since I had a lot of negative experience with proprietary apps (Sony Music Center, Ultrahuman etc). This is not me first time thinking about reverse engineering products app, I love open hardware and I wanted to contribute to the community, but while doing my research (…
Offer still stands! email me (my email is in my profile)
When there’s a will, there’s a way :) I’m not immediately sure re Fitbit Air (that’s nasty if it’s e2e encrypted!), but… maybe it doesn’t pin the server certificate and you can intercept communications?
Seems like you would have fun reversing this! :) reach out!
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For a very long time, China and India used a mixture of the 12-hour and 24-hour formats, which meant they had to convert the time or switch between time formats multiple times par day. That was the intended use of this button. Both countries have now officially switched to the 24-hour format.
I'm skeptical. Switching between time formats when you're used to it requires 0 cognitive effort, and certainly doesn't warrant a button. Eg in France, people use 24h time for display but talk in either 12h or 24h time depending on personal preference, so you might look at "17:00" and say "5" without even thinking about it, it's just a different name for 17.
True (and can confirm) but this assumes a lifetime's habit of interchanging the two.
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#339The Amazfit Neo was already doing something very similar a few years ago, a Casio-like design, always-on monochrome display, physical buttons and a 28-day battery life, while adding notifications and basic fitness tracking.
It does. I have one, and I like it a lot.
Sadly, it's no longer made, as far as I can tell, and mine only lasts a week or so now.
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OK, but who would use 12h time ? I never understood, this seems so backwards.
How about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
I.e. boomers holding everyone else back again.