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Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by bestouff »

lproven wrote: post #334
bestouff wrote: post #170

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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…

I learnt English as a kid with the 12h time, but UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. I was supposing USA was the same. Obviously not.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by bestouff »

workmandan wrote: post #341
lproven wrote: post #334

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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…

I am 38 and British and use 24hr clocks exclusively. This is also very common on the continent - the French nearly always use 24hr time for everything

Indeed (French here). 12h time is still there in spoken language sometimes, but never in writing.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by numpad0 »

coldtea wrote: post #310
numpad0 wrote: post #230

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A lot of Japanese companies leave piles on the table. One often unnoticed reality of Japanese imports and exports, at least in modern days, is that Japan as a whole has total double standards on those, requiring over the top perfection for imports but exports are almost on take it or leave it basis. Even Nintendo products are at barely acceptable levels if the standards for imports were applied to e.g. en-US editions…

You make it sound like their exports are subpar. They're excellent.

The oddity I see isn't that quality isn't great, but that developments and company public relations feedback loops are almost open looped in the global scope, only closed in domestic Japanese scope, as if the entire global part were a surplus sale. It somehow works but it's a bit weird, and it looks to me that this open loop setup is causing a lot of tiny but accumulative pains for a lot of Japanese products, which is just ... unfortunate, I guess.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by wpm »

Ductapemaster wrote: post #235
wpm wrote: post #199

BIG Warning to anyone thinking about purchasing one of these You cannot connect the watch to Bluetooth without a proprietary app, and that proprietary app will not let you use the Bluetooth feature without some bullshit called a "CASIO Account". Their privacy policy is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser too. The absolute state of things.

While I empathize with your feelings about lock-in, I encourage you to see that we live in an amazingly empowering era. I would wager that with $20 in credits for the LLM flavor of the week and and an equally expensive BLE-to-USB dongle (try the nRF52840 dongle), you will have the protocol reverse-engineered overnight. BLE protocols are often very low-hanging fruit for this type of effort. Yes, it's annoying this stu…

This isn't untrue. I had the same thought when I unboxed my Casio 3565 a week ago and learned that I had been bamboozled.

Except all I wanted was a watch that could 1. keep itself set correctly, and 2. ping my phone when I lose it. I didn't want a project. I have enough projects. I am drowning in half finished projects. They are stacked up to the ceiling. They threaten to crush me as I sleep. No more!

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by tushar30 »

tjoff wrote: post #109
rafram wrote: post #83

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The Apple Watch is quite accurate (according to Apple's own research, at least), and it doesn't guess or map to typical patterns: https://www.apple.com/health/pdf/Estimating_Sleep_Stages_fro...

From other anectdata the apple watch seems to just as bad as everything else. We just don't seem to have any idea how to track sleep quality even with better devices than just a watch/whatever. Even a binary, is the person I'm attached to sleeping, is hit and miss. And with that in mind you can be pretty sure that the sleep stages etc is even worse.

YOU ARE CORRECT.

We should start looking at biochemicals soon - melatonin and cortisol release

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by TonyStr »

stkdump wrote: post #323
TonyStr wrote: post #315

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Even cheap quartz movements tend to drift by ±10 seconds per year , so you'd only really set it at dst. Maybe you're thinking about automatic watches which can drift by several seconds per day, and stop if you don't use it for 24/48/X amount hours. I have to set my automatic quite frequently

It is usually 10-15s per month. And the annoying thing is you have to notice it and I prefer a watch that I don't have to double check.

You're right, I looked it up - it's per month for cheap watches. My bad!

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by bean469 »

Retr0id wrote: post #150

Hmmmmmmmm. I've always been a fan of the classic Casio aesthetic, and I want to want it, but this is a strange point in the functionality-vs-price space. A base F-91W costs less than half that, and my phone can already track steps with reasonable reliability. An entry-level fitbit costs about the same and monitors way more stats including heart rate, SpO2. Worse battery life and appearance, but if I wanted that featu…

> and my phone can already track steps with reasonable reliability

Perhaps, but not everyone carries their phone around with them all the time

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by raffael_de »

grep_name wrote: post #382
raffael_de wrote: post #141

I really like my F91W case with a Sensor Watch Pro board and accelerometer sensor. My favorite features: - Piezo alarm is much louder. - Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch. - LED color can be changed by adjusting RGB values. - It features sunrise/-set and moon phase info/calendar. - I changed the week day names to German abbreviations. - There are lots of intriguing watch faces that you can compil…

> Countdown time can be incremented by tapping the watch. This one is fascinating to me. Can you set it to start a countdown timer by tapping the watch itself (not a button)? If I could, say, tap the watch to start a 30m countdown timer whenever for baking, and then change a setting to make it a 1m30s timer on tap for exercise, that would be huge for me. But maybe that's not what you meant?

as I use it the increment is regarding the minutes. for 30 minutes I tap 30 times. given that it's all open source you could certainly change increments to 30 seconds.

Re: Casio F-B100W-1A

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Post by lproven »

bestouff wrote: post #391
lproven wrote: post #334

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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…

I learnt English as a kid with the 12h time, but UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. I was supposing USA was the same. Obviously not.

> UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat.

That is the direct opposite of my personal experience.

I do not live in the UK; I live in the Isle of Man, nearby. I visit for work often, though. Yes, the 24h clock is used for things like transport times, but in daily life, written and spoken, it is basically always 12h. I would estimate 95-99% of the time.

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