Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch(jyriand.com) |
Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch(jyriand.com) |
Robot vacuums on the other hand are awful for me. I always leave small cables and things on the floor like a jacket on the back of a chair. Also it does a poor job of transitioning from a hardwood surface to a thick rug. It frequently fails to charge even sitting on the dock. Also it is louder than even my shop vac.
To me it's a real life saver and a pleasure to use.
I do quickly scan the rooms and clean up stuff that I think it might otherwise get stuck at, but it doesn't take more than a minute. Considering the savings overall what it would otherwise take to use vacuum yourself it's crazy good. And I'm definitely a lazy person in terms of putting stuff away or leaving them unnecessarily on the floor.
I have special plastic boxes without lids I can quickly throw things like cables that I left on the floor before enabling the vacuum.
I have a cheaper smartwatch and a dirty cheap robot cleaner.
Cheaper smartwatch has e-ink screen, notifications, payment, health monitors, etc. It doesn’t have all possible smart features, but in return I got 30d battery life.
Cheap robot vacuum cleaner is based on basic sensors, no lidar or recognition systems. It gets stuck in cables, it misses 10% of spots, but it captures 2 cup sized ball of dust every day.
I am happy with both. Especially because I researched and found what works for me. Maybe the ‘best’, ‘smartest’ and most expensive products in the market isn’t neccesaary what everybody needs?
If I recall correctly the winding energy was directly used up for operations to spare the battery. Someone help me out, the core was some SOC from TI..
I actually never heard about it but I guess we now live in the era of “gpt is your friend”. :)
Retro Casios look great, to be fair. But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.
I had an f91w until a friend broke the strap, he bought me the 86 as a replacement and the illuminator function was game changing (spent a lot of time in the dark due to work so it was welcome).
My son uses it now, he’s young so it’s a great watch for him.
It varies; I like checking the time when my hands are full. Wristwatches got much more useful to me when my kid was born - with babies you almost never have a hand free to dip into your pocket just to check the time.
When I'm working on my car, or playing guitar, or just about anything interesting, my hands are full so it's nice to have the time on my wrist.
Except for times when I want to capture health data, or when I'm exercising, I wear nothing. After all, I always have my phone with me, so I always know what time it is.
But when I want to wear a watch, my Garmin Venu SQ2 provides nearly as good activity and health tracking as the Apple watch, plus more sports tracking features... and its battery lasts days. It's also lighter and cheaper, so if I break it I won't be as upset.
I think I’m misreading this - you exercise naked?
I didn't realise the Amazon watch was a self-winding mechanical watch. :)
My only request would be that they make an "Apple bracelet" so that I can wear my nice mechanical watches. It's a pain to jump back and forth because the power reserves on the mechanicals will die, and resetting the time (or worst the date complication) is annoying.
I’d love to have the tracker only too.
For some time i used my older Serie 3 for sleep tracking while the serie 6 charged for the day, then the Serie 3 would charge during the day. That until they released the updated sleep tracker that was not available for the serie 3.
Now I personally charge mine while i am in the shower. But i have the battery run out on me some times.
I normally have it in Theater Mode so that the display is off except when I explicitly touch it or press a button [1]. That saves a lot of power.
In the evening when I've finished dinner and sit down on the couch to do the NYT crossword puzzle, read a while, and maybe watch a little TV I put the watch on the charger which is next to the couch. It is usually in the 35-50% range when it goes onto the charger.
Sometime in the next hour or so I'll notice that it has finished charging and put it back on.
[1] There is a setting for that somewhere in the settings, but it is faster to just swipe up and tap the Theater Mode icon. That also turns on silent notifications, but the icon for that is right next to Theater Mode, so another tap on the same screen undoes that, leaving it just in Theater Mode.
There must be reasonably easy solutions to both of these problems.
It's not as if the watch doesn't prompt you to charge it either.
Even with the Ultra and it's 2-3 day battery life will charge up from almost empty to 100% in 45mins
Nice feature
The sleep data would be the only thing really valuable to me, so taking it off at night would defeat the purpose, and travel too often to keep any sort of permanent setup.
I don’t know that there is a good solution.
- firstly, turn off the Always On feature - this saves an immense amount of battery and I'm not staring at my wrist half the day anyways.
- IN the morning, when I have my coffee - slap it on the charger at my desk.
- Showering - slap it (or simply leave it) on the charger, then get dressed and put it on
- In the evening when I'm cooking/eating dinner, slap it on the charger.
I find that a 30-minute charge time is enough to juice it up for 8h or more. It is often fully charged in an hour or so.
I would not get a cleaning robot for the same reason (I'm a messy person and my place is too small) but I know people for whom it works really well
Typical
The smart devices really help us improve our lives.
I am Deaf, so notifications (vibration) on my wrists are immensely useful. I can't hear the phone buzz or beep when my hearing aids are off.
I also have ADHD + ASD - Reminders/To Do alerts me to things I need to be doing, shopping list, task list, etc. and Timer lets me cope with time blindness by making me aware of the passage of time. It's now safe for me to play a quick 30m round of my favorite game. Calendar at a glance keeps appointments and daily events in front of mind.
I have 3 alarms set - one on my wrist, my bed shaker and my smart lights (I have a cycle that goes from blue-green-yellow that works effectively well in waking me without being harsh).
Activity tracking makes sure I get up every hour (Thanks a lot, time blindness) and move a little. I pair getting up with getting some water. Without which, I would probably sit at my desk and lose a whole day from it. I forget my vitamins always, so I have a medication alert for that.
I never remember to check the weather so having it on my wrist makes sure I always know what it's going to be like outside.
I am always forgetting my phone, so the LTE on my wrist lets me know if someone is trying to reach me (my closest knows to just simply ring me for the alert and then send messages).
It's tremendously useful and lets me appear to function like a normal person.