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.”
Oof. Right in the nostalgia.
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.
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.
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 feel like the only person in the world who uses a regular analog watch face (and uses the always on display setting) so that my watch actually looks like a watch.
(Is it true that Gen Z and younger can’t read analog clocks? Might explain this behavior.)
My watch face is always analog, but that’s mostly because it’s an analog watch.
What’s the added value of a smart watch here?
Well I’m a statistics nerd, so I like all the sensors on the watch for sleep and health tracking. I can see exactly how long I slept in each phase, track my snoring, stress levels, muscle mass, body fat, and body water; compare calories burned to calories consumed, make sure my heart is being correctly with the ECG, check my pulse and blood pressure. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s basically like having a PipBoy IRL (it even has the light!). And to me that’s really fucking cool. Only feature missing is VATS.
Sounds like a tamagotchi, but for keeping yourself alive :)
How does it track calories consumed? Or isthat something you do seperately?
Yeah I have to enter the food I eat manually. But it’s not difficult cause all I have to do is either scan the barcode or take a picture of my meal and then quickly verify that it identified everything correctly.
And FWIW I only log my meals when I’m trying to lose weight. Which is right now.
I like it for notifications. I can see if a text or notification is important without getting my phone out. Also can see who’s calling without getting my phone out.
It saves you getting your phone out.
Wouldn’t surprise me if many young people can’t, I’m on the edge between millenial and gen z and reading an analog clock always needs some active effort. I’ve always preferred digital so I never really had to read analog clocks besides the one that hung in our kitchen and that one time I had a watch. Oh and the train stations still all have analog.
Kitchen clocks, if they aren’t just the oven or microwave, are probably becoming rarer, so when your watch is also digital, you’d never really encounter analog if it’s not somewhere in the public space, which will probably depend on where you live.
I’d guess most kids probably still can read one with effort because at least when there’s a second hand (since you can easily see it move) it’s kinda self explanatory, and it probably got explained in school once.
Here’s mine.
Wait, it’s gonna be Monday all fucking day?! This is bullshit!
I like how you have three complications all set to the date. That’s fucking funny man.
Anyway here’s mine:
Yeah I got sick of the hands covering the date haha. And nice I like it.
I feel like the only person that can’t stand to wear a watch. Until cellphones came out, I just got really good at estimating the time.
I feel you but for me the body tracking features make it worth it. If you’re a Fallout fan, it’s like having a real-life PipBoy. The only thing missing is VATS.
I specifically bought a smart watch for that purpose, first watch I’ve bought in over 20 years, and it sits there and gathers dust because it’s so annoying to have something hanging on my wrist. I might also be less wigged out by them if I could put my own OS on it instead of having the Google spyware only.
Wow. Didn’t think I’d get nostalgia flashbacks from a watch face but here we are.
I’d prefer to see more things like if it’s going to rain soon and other meteorological parameters, but love the look
I really wish the Apple Watch were this customizable. This is so cool.
