I'd rather be without a watch than wear one that looks like a cheap toy out of a bubble gum machine.
Google Pixel Watch 2
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#92How can people tolerate a watch that's half an inch thick? That's like twice the thickness of my phone.
How can people tolerate charging a watch each night? I can't get behind this idea of having a basket of electronics you need to babysit all the time so they don't run out of battery. Especially when we already have really battery efficient tech, like hybrid watches with e-ink display.
I 3d printed a stand for my watch which embeds the charging puck, and so whenever I take it off for any reason, it just goes on the stand. It doesn't even really stand out as a task unnatural enough to need tolerating, kinda at the level of hanging your clothes on a hook/hangar after changing.
For all other situations, I just have to stick the watch to the back of my phone to charge it, so don't even need to carry around a separate watch charger.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I miss my Pebble. I have a Garmin now, but it lacks many basic functionalities, especially around notifications. For example, if someone texts me a few times in a row, I can't scroll to get to prior notifications. Lame!
Same here. I'm really surprised that after Pebble's implosion nothing appeared to fill the void. I could've bet real money that within a couple of years we're going to see at least a couple of products at least close to what the Pebble was.
Fossil seems closest in terms of functionality, but their UI/UX is not nearly as smooth. The watches look nice, but they're much harder to read and navigate. Also super slow/laggy. I was hopeful when they first came out, but it seems like they've hardly innovated. They added Alexa a while back, but since there's no speaker (just a mic), responses are text-only. But the core OS is the same, four years later.
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#94I had no idea the battery life on most smart watches is so bad that "24 hours of screen on battery life" is something to brag about. The apple watch is no better. My Garmin Forerunner 945 (a running focused smart watch), more than two years old at this point, gets nearly two weeks of battery life on a single charge, and it's got an always-on screen as well. --- Quick edit: Even the latest Forerunner 965, which has an…
My Fitbit Sense gets 4-5 days off a full charge. It's not always on though.
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#95I'd rather be without a watch than wear one that looks like a cheap toy out of a bubble gum machine.
There's a lot of legitimate reasons to be skeptical of pixel watches. But I've never heard anyone cite aesthetics. They are some of the best looking watches in the market
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#96I had no idea the battery life on most smart watches is so bad that "24 hours of screen on battery life" is something to brag about. The apple watch is no better. My Garmin Forerunner 945 (a running focused smart watch), more than two years old at this point, gets nearly two weeks of battery life on a single charge, and it's got an always-on screen as well. --- Quick edit: Even the latest Forerunner 965, which has an…
Garmin devices are generally great on battery life but the display on the Forerunner 945 isn't really considered "always on". It always displays an image but isn't readable in the dark without turning on the backlight. Some newer Garmin devices do have true "always on" displays. Their battery life is slightly worse, but still pretty good.
imo garmins approach is better if you want to wear it while sleeping - less chances to trigger the display and wake up
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#97Android really dropped the ball on their watch OS, it is absolutely unusable. I heard that they even pay a shitton of money for Samsung so they won’t create a new base OS for watches..
But sams already did it. They have tizenos. The switch to wear os is a very recent thing
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#98It's ironic or a bit disingenuous that a device putting constant notifications on your wrist is advertised for stress relief. Not unique to PW2, quite common in tech, but regardless...
Based on your other replies it's probably just a fundamental disagreement on how you view notifications compared to those who find watch notifications to reduce stress. For me, watch notifications reduce stress by allowing me to get absorbed in the moment while still being able to quickly check up on any important things without having to "context switch" by pulling out a phone. It means that I can actually take adva…
If you get stressed by fearing you'll miss an 'important' message to which you want to 'react' immediately outside of your working hours (I'd argue even within work hours unless it is that once a year true emergency) to make a 'good impression' let me tell you now that that is not a winning strategy.
The hard truth is you are conditioning others to see and treat you like a good servant. One they want to keep as a servant.
If you want to serve yourself and advance your carreer, bring other values to the table when it matters. You want to be the person that shows promising skills for the next few carreer steps, not be the 'good ata boy, fetch'.
If you are truly needed for something urgent, because you are the only person that can do it rather than anyone that will do it. they will find a way to contact you even with your phone notifications turned off.
Making the "good impression" is a negative if you are impressing the wrong image.
You can ignore this advice from someone who has been through many stages of a carreer, and it can be scary advice givin your current perception, but trust me, this is an important worklife lesson.
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#99I had no idea the battery life on most smart watches is so bad that "24 hours of screen on battery life" is something to brag about. The apple watch is no better. My Garmin Forerunner 945 (a running focused smart watch), more than two years old at this point, gets nearly two weeks of battery life on a single charge, and it's got an always-on screen as well. --- Quick edit: Even the latest Forerunner 965, which has an…
Yes, transflective screens consume MUCH less energy than a OLED/LCD or whatever display tech that these watches have that require backlights to function. The Garmin works just fine without an active backlight (due to transflective) and has much fewer colors and worse resolution and worse refresh rate. It also does not have a touchscreen which also consumes lots of energy. The modern smart watch advertises always on s…
My Garmin Enduro 2 has a touchscreen, and battery lasts somewhere from 2 to 3 weeks depending on how much I use it during an activity.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Based on your other replies it's probably just a fundamental disagreement on how you view notifications compared to those who find watch notifications to reduce stress. For me, watch notifications reduce stress by allowing me to get absorbed in the moment while still being able to quickly check up on any important things without having to "context switch" by pulling out a phone. It means that I can actually take adva…
If you get stressed by fearing you'll miss an 'important' message to which you want to 'react' immediately outside of your working hours (I'd argue even within work hours unless it is that once a year true emergency) to make a 'good impression' let me tell you now that that is not a winning strategy. The hard truth is you are conditioning others to see and treat you like a good servant. One they want to keep as a ser…
I expected to get this kind of response, but applying it so broadly is kind of overly cynical and doesn't really account for the realities of early career research.
These urgent emails can be about things like quick questions about my code. If they had to wait for me to reply (which would cause them to just switch to another in their large backlog of tasks in the meantime), it'd take even longer than the year it has already taken to make meaningful progress on integrating my work.
Alternatively they may be requests to have a quick call to discuss a paper draft I sent for their review (because that's the only reasonable time they might have to discussit that week). With these, of course I should care about expediency as there are only a handful of papers with me as primary author. They directly count towards the progress of my career. Plus, with these there are strict submission deadlines to deal with, which are more important to me as primary author.
I'm in a research group of 4 people, 2 of whom are more scientist than computer engineer, and the other is mainly a Python person and also mainly a Windows person. Thus, any of our new developments relating to GPU acceleration, parallelization, automations and relating to our Linux systems are, in most cases, my child. This isn't a large company where there may be many different people who can handle the same task and where it's reasonable to make it difficult for them to reach me to avoid giving the impression of being a slave.
Plus, it isn't like I'm just doing everything I'm told either. I understand when someone's just asking me to do something that they likely won't even remember asking for and know to deprioritize those things appropriately.