PCeBiker
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I remember when the border would shutdown at 4 every day.
Yeah, we have problems at our border keeping the stoners in.
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I remember when the border would shutdown at 4 every day.
I do not use Smart watches, I don't believe in the metrics, and I don't want to support Apple or Microsoft more than necessary.
I had to look that one up. Yep, as usual his timing (pun intended) was off by about a decade.OMG, you have Bill Gates' watch
According to this video my life would have turned out very differently if only I had bought a SPOT watch in 2004. It's like they baked pheromones into the watch.
A quick look back at Microsoft's proto-smartwatch technology, SPOT
Microsoft SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) first launched in a series of watches in 2004, and were the precursors to today's modern smartwatches like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6.www.neowin.net
Excellent. I remember when I got my first Blackberry-- for work, it was part of a job-- my wife used to stare daggers at me whenever I answered it, and say quietly, 'Toilet, toilet, toilet." My last Blackberry was a PRIV, the worst phone I've ever owned, and I smashed it with a hammer.No watch for me, don’t use a smart phone either, we live a pretty monastic life when it comes to tech. Had a smartphone in 2007 and 2008 and didn’t really care for it and turned it in. (It was a blackberry with a scroll ball and no real images, mainly just basic text websites) Was on Facebook in august 2005 with my university email at the time and within six months got off and said this doesn’t look like it will end well. I did have a Fitbit versa for a year to track heart rate and enjoyed that and learned some things but don’t really like things on my wrist so gave it to a buddy.
I walked into a bike shop and the guy behind the counter said, OMG, you have Bill Gates' watch! Then proceeded to show a video of it. Anything 'smart' is dumb, so I got rid of my 'smartphone' about five years ago, so will I keep sharp and self-reliant. That was hard to kick for the first couple of days. I am glad to be free of the distraction. The watch is super accurate and durable. It is good to 200m and has a dive watch bezel that I use all the time. For example, if I have a meeting at 1, I will set the bezel to 1. Or, if I am cooking and need to attend to something in 20 minutes, I will set it forward by 20 minutes.
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I also don't want to get out of the habit of trusting my own body and sensations to let me know if heart rate or blood pressure is too high, I've been meditating for half a century and studied method acting for years, so I better be able to objectively assess my own physical condition from moment to moment.
High blood pressure does not feel bad, it feels good. Until the heart attack that comes at the end. It is losing vision every time I stand up from a hard chair that tells me my blood pressure is back to normal. I started doing that when I was 15, a biker, and a marching band cymbalist who walked 1.5 miles home from band practice at 98 F carrying 6 books and a 14 lb bassoon.
When I got the Soviet "Raketa" wristwatch for my First Communion, there was a saying Soviet watches were exactly accurate twice a dayYes it is Russian,
So how are you even posting on EBR?we live a pretty monastic life when it comes to tech.
I ask people around for the same. They are usually surprised I do not know itI ask my watch things like "What city am I currently in?" on my rides or whatever factoid my buddies can't remember.
Sounds like me. i broke watch after watch. I finally switched to Timex. Didn’t break those, and I guess taught myself to not break my watches.It's funny in 50+ years I've never had a watch -- cheap, expensive, new, old, heirloom, "ultra durable" -- that I didn't manage to break within the first HOUR of wearing it.
Hell, I've got a crack on the screen of my two week old Ulefone Power Armor 13... which is basically the Panasonic Toughbook of mobile phones.