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Re: Google Timer is back

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post #80

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This show count down from 35h? Isn't a week longer than 35h?

It's odd. At first it shows is 336 hours, 0 mins, and 0 seconds and then it counts down to 35:59:59. Clearly a bug.

Crazy. I will stick with my phone's timer.

Re: Google Timer is back

#92
post #79

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I agree with you in general but not in this particular case. Best case scenario: you get a five minute timer running right away. Worst case scenario: you click the first link and get a five minute timer right away

First link would be ad-filled, SEO gamed bullshit.

Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?

Re: Google Timer is back

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post #80

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This show count down from 35h? Isn't a week longer than 35h?

Huh that's weird. It actually shows the correct 336h for a few milliseconds first and then counts back from 35h. I wonder what's happening internally - messing up a timer shouldn't be that easy normally, right?

Because windows search is useless and if I search "timer" it'll probably bring up "timer.py" from a random application or just search bing

Re: Google Timer is back

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post #92
post #79

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First link would be ad-filled, SEO gamed bullshit.

Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?

> Your [...] computer has the capability to do timers

Source? At least on macOS, i'm not aware of any built in timer or stopwatch.

Re: Google Timer is back

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post #92

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Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?

> Your [...] computer has the capability to do timers Source? At least on macOS, i'm not aware of any built in timer or stopwatch.

  sleep 300; tput bel
or even

  timer() { sleep $1 ; i=$2; until [ $i -eq 0 ]; do tput bel; sleep 1; i=$((i-1)); done }
  timer 300 10

Re: Google Timer is back

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post #92

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Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?

> Your [...] computer has the capability to do timers Source? At least on macOS, i'm not aware of any built in timer or stopwatch.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/07/macos-ventura-clock-timers/

Re: Google Timer is back

#99

How are people supposed to use features like this if they get dropped and re-added from time to time? If I want a convenient timer, googling "set 5 minute timer" has no advantage if I don't know whether it will work or not. Inconsistency is an enemy of convenience.

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