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Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

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Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

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Post by sublinear »

j16sdiz wrote: post #39
flangola7 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do browsers even allow this behavior? The back button should automatically skip any blind redirects.

because Single-Page-Applications they want the back button work with app internal state changes

Single page apps don't require a frontend router and the same can be achieved by unconditionally sending a redirect from the server side for any request as long as you also hook into the "beforeunload" event in the browser.

Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

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Post by ericzawo »

I love watches but don't think I'll ever wear an Apple Watch. It just doesn't feel like a Watch. It's very much a wrist computer. I would love if they made an Apple Watchband, as in a computer-powered wristband of some kind that does all the great things Apple Watch does (pedometer, heart monitoring, gps, notifs) but replaces the watch band of my Actual Watch. Now that'd be something I would wear.

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Post by sublinear »

kazinator wrote: post #34
reaperman wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember browsers stopped it for awhile. Maybe I’m misremembering?

I don't think you are. I think early versions of the problem happened because the website did a redirect: x.y.com/ would sand you to w.y.com/ and your browser would stupidly remember that as a user navigation. Your back button from w.y.com would take you to x.y.com, which would perpetrate the redirect. The fix for that is not to enter redirects into the back history, only user-initiated navigations.

This is still around

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

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Post by NanoRobotGeek »

tkgally wrote: post #14
shazar wrote: post #7

Unrelated to the article, but hijacking the history and making it impossible to navigate back is the new cancer in the internet I guess.

Here’s the direct link to the video: https://youtu.be/B2h5WwrkJFg I enjoyed it immensely.

I thought people would find it really boring, hence the 800% speed up on most clips. Very glad to hear at least some people enjoyed it

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Post by NanoRobotGeek »

pinko wrote: post #26
prxtl wrote: post #15

A few years ago, H. Moser & Cie made a mechanical watch with their superb levels of craftsmanship that kinda/sorta parodied the Apple Watch: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/moser-swiss-alp-watch-s-in...

This is mentioned in the OP's link.

Through posting on Reddit I learnt that Moser wasn't the only one either. Apparently Ciga Designs did some similar watches and even Casio has one, the MTP-M305

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Post by NanoRobotGeek »

alexjplant wrote: post #28

This is incredible... hats off to the maker. That being said I really wish that the Chinese ETA 2824-2 clone that is the PT5000 would see more action in place of Seiko movements. It's more accurate, runs at 4Hz, and isn't too far off in terms of cost (last I checked - I could be wrong as regards bulk orders). Then again I don't know whether it can be modded to be "open heart" a la the NH38 so it might not have been a…

Damn yeah, you guys are all on the money. I was thinking of an ETA clone or Sellita. As well as the Miyota 90S5 which was a really odd pick from ghostganz because I don't think its that popular of a movement. But I was looking at it as I had 0.5mm less height than Seiko's recommended minimum height within the case, and the 90S5 was much thinner. Ended up with the NH38 anyway because I was really REALLY unsure if I could even get this to work so it was a lower monetary investment. And, the stem shape worked for the weirdo linkages I made, because the linkage I made is technically within the footprint of all those movements.

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Post by NanoRobotGeek »

the__alchemist wrote: post #5

It makes me wonder why mechanical over something with a XO, given it wouldn't have the status-symbol associated with mech watches. (Or maybe it would?)

It wouldn't have been anywhere near as funny to me or enjoyable for me to wear. Literally the only reasons. Mechanical movements are strictly worse

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Post by NanoRobotGeek »

alexjplant wrote: post #28

This is incredible... hats off to the maker. That being said I really wish that the Chinese ETA 2824-2 clone that is the PT5000 would see more action in place of Seiko movements. It's more accurate, runs at 4Hz, and isn't too far off in terms of cost (last I checked - I could be wrong as regards bulk orders). Then again I don't know whether it can be modded to be "open heart" a la the NH38 so it might not have been a…

And had to be open heart 1. because I liked how the mockup I did looked with an open heart and 2. because any more stem positions for different complication settings would have made my life a lot harder with getting the button/crown to work

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Post by jansan »

batch12 wrote: post #11

Is it tacky that I want to do this with the guts of a Casio F91W or the CA-53W? Perhaps. https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.CA-53W-1/

The world is still waiting for a CA-53W backlight mod. Some rdditor seems to be working on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/casio/comments/12qplk8/ca53w_leds_m...

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