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[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are people really not aware that you don't have to have notifications for everything?

You can turn all the notifications off on your phone and watch.

The value the watch brings can be found in other places, for example, being able to stay connected and have music and emergency contact without needing to lug your phone with you during a run or if you lose your phone.

A smart watch means you can leave your phone at home more often in general while still being available to those who genuinely need to be in contact with you, which is great for reducing doom scrolling and the like.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Right?? One of the first things I do when getting a new phone is disabling all the useless notifications and keeping the ones I care about. My phone doesn't spam with notifications all day.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

A photo of my current watch as I’m wearing it right now.

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's mine. I bought it new in 2015, and I wear it almost daily. It has never needed work.

[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Keeping time since 1971

[–] Scavenger_Solardaddy@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Here's my reliable, simple Casio. Been with me for the past 7 years. I love this old fucker.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Very nice. Here's mine: captured_image107410525149055138

[–] cod@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Here is my Bulova Sea King “Whale” from 1971 that I bought used a couple years ago. Still runs very well 54 years later.

[–] GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Wearing an oldie watch made in 1988 with a pulsometer on the dial. Love the beaten old thing.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

After something like a year of searching I finally got:

  • solar powered, I never have to charge or change battery
  • analog face with digital date, no need to adjust the date every month but looks good
  • date in dd/mm format
  • no GPS, no heart rate monitor, no notifications

Couldn't find anything else that would tick those boxes.

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know a ton of people love g-shock, and i respect you guys, but to me it looks like something i would pick up on my way to drive a main battletank into the heart of russia

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Sounds like an upside.

[–] Perish@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Got nearly the same month ago

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The plain old digital ones with solar + radio time syncing are the best tool watches on the market in my opinion : set and forget, it even does DST automatically. The only limitation is you have to be outside during the day with the watch exposed a few hours a month or cheat with other light sources.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only limitation is you have to be outside during the day with the watch exposed a few hours a month or cheat with other light sources.

You really don't. Maybe other watches use more power but I left my gshock in a drawer for months, maybe even a year and when I took it out the battery was at "M." Put it on a window sill and it was at H in no time. Haven't actually seen it in years and I wouldn't be surprised if it was still alive.

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago

Mine turns off in the dark so that may help. I based my remarks off the manual. Good to know they're pessimistic.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

You’re still allowed to buy a normal watch

[–] StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I like my smartwatch. I'm extremely ADHD as well as hypoglycemic. I have a lifelong history of not eating, then working/playing/exercising until i get woozy or pass out. I'm a terrible judge of what I actually need to stay functional. Always have been. I'm stubborn and will just try to power through things when I actually can't.

The watch helps me track my sleep/rem cycles and lets me know when I've been neglecting my health. It lets me know when I'm getting stressed and need to take it easy, and it estimates how many calories I've expended on a given day.

The watch and pager functions are nice for reducing screen time when I should be working, but as a health monitor I find it indispensable in keeping me honest with myself.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I found this in my jewelry box when I was packing for moving. Throwback to the 80s! Very much doesn't work.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

A well executed ad.

[–] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"the touch screen is broken"

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Father, I cannot click the book!

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Does flipping the page by hand break the ebook?

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Aren't smartwatch sales going down? Anyways, never understood why anyone would use one, especially since we also have phones that we carry around every day and that can notify us whenever.

[–] Oneser@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

There was one case in the last 3 years that I thought about getting one. I started running and hated having to need my phone on me and needed a watch either way.

Then I went to dinner and saw how a friend was continuously and unconsciously flicking their eyes down at their smartwatch every few minute if they weren't talking and decided against it. I'm getting old...

[–] SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Have been wearing a Withings Scanwatch for close to two years now. I can check the time as usual and do not have to do a weird hand movement to activate the screen. On that tiny screen on top I can see who is calling on my phone.

The dial at the bottom goes to 100. That's percent of predifined steps taken.

I like it. The Scanwatch 2 has a ton of more functioniality healthwise but it also quite expensive for a watch.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love my phone to a not great degree, but I would hate a smartwatch. I don't like wearing watches anyways, but something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty. At least on my phone I can listen to podcasts, music, radio, etc, and I can read books and magazines. A smartwatch just feels like a shackle. Also every time I go to concerts or theater now and see the lights go down and all the smartwatches glowing in unison it's creepy.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty

It's the same when it's in your pocket. I'd say the issue is not that it buzz all the time on your wrist, but that it buzz all the time. I disabled most notifications, except for a selection of people and apps. When I get a notification, it is usually important enough that I should check it. Everything else (including non-emergency work stuff) is checked on my own accord, when I feel like it.

Having the notifications pop on my wrist, with that system, does not feel like a shackle more than a phone constantly turning its screen on to tell you you have unread whatever.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If we're doing watches today, here's what I'm rocking lately.

I stopped using my Garmin smartwatch because they finally fell into the enshittification trap and recently tried adding AI slop and a subscription scheme into their watch app. That's a big old nope from me, dawg.

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m rocking a $5 Ali watch with a nice rainbow watch band.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Wow I love this!