notes: Facer is a little bit of a PITA to install, follow the instructions very well.
GW4: It eats about twice as much battery as my normal faces, but I’m still lasting the day.
The text is WAY too small, but it’s pretty fun.
Thanks I hate it
My coworker likes it and wants to know where this can be found.
“Hey, what watch is that?”
Me: “American Megatrends.”
“…”
Me: “it’s EnergyStar compliant.”
Then here is the right model for you…
Oof. Right in the nostalgia.
While we’re on the topic; any decent smart watches out there that
- aren’t made by apple
- don’t harvest my data
- don’t stream everything I do straight to china
? I like the concept of a smart watch, but I haven’t really looked into the ecosystem. Preferably one that just integrates nicely with any android phone
If you’re interested in tinkering or just want a basic smartwatch, Pebble is back
I’d heard it was coming back (sic) but I’d not heard that it will have a 30 day battery life, wow
I use CMF Watch Pro, with Gadgetbridge.
If you’re comfortable with a bit of setup, there are open hardware options on the market. They’re reasonably basic compared to a flagship but phone notifications, some health metrics and telling the time are all quite possible.
PineTime (with Infinitime firmware)
If you want to basically make it from scratch there’s also the Yatchy
Second BangleJS 2. I went from Pebbles to the BangleJS 2 and have been really happy with it. I don’t recall it being difficult to set to; it came ready to go, and synced with GadgetBridge (the Bangle.js fork) right away.
Is any of them capable of a “smart alarm” aka waking you at the right phase of sleep?
From a quick search, “sleep as android” seems to have support for both, although people have varying success with it
Love my pinetime. cheap tough and does not have bullshit.
Amazfit with Gadgetbridge.
I bought one a couple of years ago and it works great. Gadgetbridge keeps all the smart functionality local to your phone.
I’ve heard good things about the Garmins as well which I think are mostly also supported in Gadgetbridge.
Also having a GTR4 with GB, same idea. Still hate having to send them data by having to use their app on an initial pairing to get the damn key for the first time. Also, now that I changed phone, and using the pairing key on the new phone worked to get it to connect to my GTR4, it seems a bit less persistent connection than when it was paired from their app on the same device. Not sure what else changed, because it’s in both cases pixel phones, running GrapheneOS.
Second this, my wife and I both got one. It’s a slight inconvenience to get the Authorization key from a command line, but it’s not very difficult. Gadget Bridge basically fakes the phone side of the app, which means it won’t send your data out and watch thinks everything is fine and normal. Pretty cool. Look at all these free watch faces: https://amazfitwatchfaces.com/
Maybe Garmin, Withings or (Chinese owned now) Suunto?
Seiko lol
For a second there I thought you actually accessed the bios on the watch and it looked like that haha.
Awesome!
If you did, it would probably be in mandarin. At least that’s what happened when my Android tablet went to shit.
ARM devices kinda dont have a bios, so sadly this wouldnt be possible :(
It’s more of a WRIST device I’d say
Heh, nice one 👏
Could be the recovery menu.
It does say “BIOS Setup Utility” at the top tho…
I know, I meant it as if they were to access something.
And you could have BIOS-themed custom recovery.
I am sure it could be done. Just compare the usual volume button-navigated stock recovery with something like TWRP which could really be considered a small OS.
God I wish ARM had a standard…
I thought this was templeos
Wow, there’s a reference I didn’t think I’d come across. Did you ever try using it? I was curious but never did…didn’t have a use case for it.
There is no use case for TempleOS. It’s just a curiosity, albeit an interesting one.
No, never bothered. I think it’d be fun to fool around in, but I don’t think it’d be worth the trouble. I don’t even have a way to run VMs set up on any of my computers at the moment so I’d need to download Virtual Box or qemu.
Unironically I like that
okay, I admit I like it
It gives information in a high contrast interface. It cares not for your opinions
i don’t care it does not care
Looks neat, but I think the actual time display is way too small to be useful.
You’re missing the point of the face…
But I also didn’t realize it was the watch face initially, I thought it was an alternate OS.
They could’ve made the font a bit bigger for sure
I mean not really…if idea is to mimic legacy bios, it needs to look exactly like that.
This feels like a recipe for screen burn, but I assume whatever elements the watch uses for pixels don’t do that, and it’s just the bad side of nostalgia making me feel that way.
I’ve been using the always-on display of my OLED smartwatch 24/7 since 2022 (Samsung Watch 4 Classic). Burn-in is a non-issue. The watch face goes into AOD mode when you’re not looking at it; I’m not sure which burn-in protection features are being used but they work well cause I can use the same watch face for months at a time without any signs of burn-in.
If you never change what’s on the screen, you’ll never notice the burn-in
taps head 🧠
🔥🔥🔥
I’d prefer to see more things like if it’s going to rain soon and other meteorological parameters, but love the look
Wow. Didn’t think I’d get nostalgia flashbacks from a watch face but here we are.
I really wish the Apple Watch were this customizable. This is so cool.
