• felbane@lemmy.world
    153·
    10 months ago

    I unironically love this and would use it as my watch face just to get a reaction from my coworkers. Link?

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
    913·
    10 months ago

    This is a pinetime it looks like.

    You should get one, open source and $30.

    • ramsay@lemmy.world
      27·
      10 months ago

      Does it support the watch command?

      user@watch:~ $ watch now

      Otherwise, who knows when “now” was…

      /s

      • Aceticon@lemmy.world
        29·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, but square screens are way cheaper to procure and to program for, and every little helps in an open source project aiming for $30.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        11·
        10 months ago

        honestly just depends on what kind of watchface you want, square is cheaper and in some ways more convenient so if you don’t want an analog clockface there’s no reason to bother

    • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Gave a quick check, and it costs more than twice the price to buy it in EU, everything from Pine64, for some reason, odd, will look at this in more detail later at some point in case i missed something because the idea of an open, not locked, not tracking your every move smartwatch is appealing, but that doubling the price thing is a minus.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        3·
        10 months ago

        Yeah I had a similar experience getting mine shipped to Canada, $30 but another $30ish for shipping. I hope one day they are available easier and everywhere.

      • Lord_ToRA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        10 months ago

        I would not say that any of the features work well enough to consider them as actual features. The only thing that is truly reliable is telling time.

        My battery life is about 3 days. The notifications are ugly and bare minimum. It does not store more than 5 at a time.

        • trafficnab@lemmy.ca
          7·
          10 months ago

          Why does every manufacturer fall for the IPS/OLED meme instead of using a transflective LCD (like what a calculator has)?? My Amazfit Bip gets 6 weeks on a single charge with the screen on 24/7

          • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
            51·
            10 months ago

            transflective LCD is like magic tho, the things are floating. Jokes aside is there a smartwatch that has this screen, but with actual pixels, so that it’s just as “smart”? I know thag amazfit can show you all the info, but having a mini-mini-pc is cool.

            • trafficnab@lemmy.ca
              11·
              10 months ago

              I basically just want a smart watch to be an extension of my phone’s lockscreen:

              Tell me the time, and tell me why my phone just buzzed, almost anything else is bloat that’s shaving literal weeks off of the battery life

              • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                10 months ago

                Whatever floats your boat ig. For me it’s 50% looks and 50% sleep tracking. I don’t think a wristband can track how much calories I burn, and sport tracking is basically a meme. But for checking if I get enough sleep, and a fashion piece. Yes, pls.

                Different market.

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
          2·
          10 months ago

          What does not work for you? Other then the one player pong sucking I have had the opposite experience.

        • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          I would not say that any of the features work well enough to consider them as actual features.

          That is a bold statement. I as someone who was considering purchasing one, could you elaborate?

          • Lord_ToRA@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            The step tracking is far less accurate than any other fitness watch I’ve had.

            The raise-to-wake is not reliable regardless of how it’s calibrated.

            The heart rate monitor I can’t provide evidence of accuracy, but based on the experience I had with the other features it’s safe to guess it’s not very accurate. More importantly it’s a battery killer and turns itself off constantly.

            The interface in total is severely lacking.

            Coding custom features is highly unenjoyable.

            A large part of it relies on the companion apps which just don’t provide much support for the pinetime, especially in comparison to other devices.

            The timer/stopwatch/alarm is laughable as it buzzes once and that’s it.

            I mentioned already that notifications are ugly and bare minimum. Most information is cut off and it can only handle up to 5 notifications in memory before it’s cut off and you don’t get any more until you check them or it just clears the oldest one. I’m not exactly sure how it handles that because to me it’s just unusable.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        11·
        10 months ago

        It does not track sleep as that would require too much info to be sent to a third party. The battery is insane on it as well I get 5 plus days on mine.

    • mortrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      What Android software could you use for managing it? Gadgetbridge seems to not have fully-developed support for it, even with their preferred firmware.

      I’m using Gadgetbridge with a hacked Amazfit Bip and I’m pretty happy. I like the multicolor TFT LCD w/no default backlight on the Bip, which is very readable in bright light and only requires a quick button press to get the backlight on in the dark, or you can waste more battery life and have it turn on when you turn it towards yourself. It’s also got built-in GPS/workout tracking (you have to manually flash the A-GPS data occasionally…), the ability to load little open source apps, sleep tracking, heart rate tracking, notifications, custom watchfaces, etc which I’m sure the Pinetime has most of. The battery also lasts ages since it uses such a low-power LCD.

      I’m not saying the Pinetime isn’t good, but decent alternatives exist. I would love a truly open-source smart watch, but maybe when the project is slightly more mature. I guess I could always get one and contribute to it… $30 is really not much. I’ll definitely try it if my Bip breaks.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        3·
        10 months ago

        I have found nothing that worked, was not spying on you, was not some hipster pipedream, and has lots of people working on it. Oh and gadgetbridge seems to work good, what do you mean not supported?

        • mortrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Also the Bip cannot spy on you unless you install the official app. It’s limited to its interactions with apps over bluetooth, and I just use Gadgetbridge.

          • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
            1·
            10 months ago

            Glad you worked around the spying. I just wanted to give my money to a company that did not start by spying on me.

        • mortrek@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          According to the wiki, only one firmware is supported, and it’s early support with missing features. The wiki may be outdated, though.

          • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, I have updated my firmware and its just fine. Like a lot of this type of development there is not great oversight or up to date documents.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      First I’ve heard of it, is it a worthy successor to the Pebble?

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        2·
        10 months ago

        Never owned a Pebble, But I think as they still make the pinetime it bodes well.

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
        21·
        10 months ago

        But the pinetime uses the phones navigation/gps. I am not sure what that would do?

        • genie@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          It doesn’t rely on phone navigation for starters :)

          I find it to be especially useful for running, or really sports in general where it’s not practical to carry a phone. Accelerometer step counting alone isn’t very accurate. Having GNSS on the watch is very helpful in a lot of ways.

          • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
            1·
            10 months ago

            Ah, that explains it then. I have not run in 10 years and would not have thought of that.

        • interolivary@beehaw.org
          1·
          10 months ago

          XML has a bad rap because people went a bit (ok a lot) overboard with it in the early years, pretty much like what happens with a lot of other technologies, but as far as structured and human-readable data formats with good schema and tooling support go, it’s pretty much unbeatable. Now that JSON is the New Good Tech and XML is the Old Bad Tech, too many developers use JSON where XML would absolutely make more sense, and then we end up with unholy abominations like Portable Text, which is JSON pretending to be XML, and is so incredibly verbose and monumentally stupid that it feels like some sort of joke esolang data format rather than something being used in a production system. But no, here we are, god is dead and JSON is XML.

          XML is terrific for building eg. structured markup languages with more complex markup than what something like Markdown can provide, and have the resulting files be comparatively readable, at least in comparison to the JSON-based alternatives – compare HTML to Portable Text, for example. XML has such a bad reputation – partially deservedly – that people just automatically assume it’s not a valid tool for anything modern, even when the modern “NoSQL”, “structured and typed data is for nerds, suck it” JSON solution is a giant pile of shit compared to the XML alternative

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    181·
    10 months ago

    I’ve seen too many android devices with corrupt memory showing something like that to want it as a my watchface…

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    111·
    10 months ago

    You’ve got the hour hand and the minute hand… they’re right there. What’s wrong? /s