Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

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  • Garmin is where I landed too.

    I couldn’t do the instinct 2 solar because of the 50mm size (I have dainty little wrists) but the instinct 3 solar is available in 45mm.

    I’m over a month in and at 70% battery with minimal direct solar, but it does give it a 1-3% bump when I’m working outside.

    At this point, I have to see how long it can go without charging.

    (Again, I don’t use any of the “smart” stuff, just the heart rate monitor for sleep tracking - is that a new thing to require HRM for sleep tracking? Long ago, they did it with the accelerometer)



  • I remember looking for a new watch awhile back and seeing a review that said “The battery life is outstanding! I get almost two whole days without a charge!” and thinking “naw dude”.

    But, I also don’t like “smart” watches… or “smart” anything. I want a damn watch that can occasionally do GPS tracking when I want it to and the battery should last, at minimum, one month.




  • I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things “user friendly” with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn’t do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.

    25+ years later, I’ll use a gui if it works and it’s easy, but I still have trust issues that I don’t have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it’s going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying… And I appreciates that.

    That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however… No gui, no problem.














  • clif@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldDon't reply "just Google it"
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    7 months ago

    You ever revisit an old problem, search it, find someone with the exact problem and as you read it think “yes… YES! This person has my exact same problem! Wait, the tone sounds familiar…”

    Only to realize you found your own post from an old throwaway account? With no replies.

    Because I have. It’s soul crushing.