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  • Samsung galaxy watch ultra.

    I’ve been using Samsungs since they started making them. The main thing (after the time) is in fact the notifications, since it’s much less disruptive to me or my conversation if I just check a watch rather than pull out my phone.

    Other than that, I hike most weekends during warmer months and I track that on the watch. I don’t really use the data too much after the fact, but I like knowing how long it really was, my heart rate, etc.

    I work from home now, but when i was in an office setting it was fine to listen to music, and I used the watch to control the player, again without taking out a phone while I’m supposed to be working.

    I use a watch face that gives me some quick stuff like the temperature, chance of rain, my last measured heartrate, steps, and my calories (when I was tracking that).

    Basically I use it to avoid pulling out my phone for every little damn thing, and for the health tracking stuff.

    This is less often, but if i go to a Waterpark or something like six flags in the summer, if you have a data plan on the watch, it’s really handy to have that and leave the phone in a locker or the car. That way you can still message your group, and if you have it set up, pay for food and drinks or merch while you’re there. They’re water resistant well beyond what will happen there so you don’t need to get a special case or worry about losing it on a ride.


  • Same thing you do when anything else is fatigued, you rest. Take a break from all that stuff. You are not the savior of the world and everything will not fall apart because you stopped paying attention for a little while.

    I’m sure you’ve had other hobbies, get back into those. Play some games, watch some movies, read a book (not about those topics), get some exercise if you aren’t already. If it creeps up in the back of your mind to go look at the news or whatever, that’s fine just ignore it, it’ll go away. Do stuff so that you’re enjoying your time and wanting more of it rather than just waiting for the day to end.



  • Bongles@lemmy.ziptoOpen Source@lemmy.mlFavorite F-Droid Apps?
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    Aegis - an authenticator app.
    CoMaps - like Google or apple maps
    ConnectBot - let’s me ssh into my PC and laptop from my phone, that’s nice for me if I just need to do something quick and am in another room.
    FluffyChat - this is the matrix client I prefer, other than sending video, that sucks with this one.
    Léon - this cleans up URLs to remove the tracking stuff.
    Seal - this downloads videos or audio files. I use it because I like to download videos i send people, instead of just sending them a link.
    Shelter - this clones apps to a work profile on your phone, which somewhat limits what those apps have access to from your standard profile.





  • Why would you waste your time criticizing what others are talking about when you could focus your efforts on improving yourself? We all have limited energy and time after all. 100% of that should be going towards the things that you need to improve upon within yourself. Everything else is just a distraction.


  • ~(Not to target this at you, I see this a lot lately)~
    Why are we doing this “the other site” bullshit? It’s reddit, just say reddit, a ton of people left reddit to avoid having to censor themselves so much.

    As for your question reddit has been heavily progressive for as long as i used it, but the user base was large enough to have pockets of other people, like some of the us republican subreddits. I don’t know where you use to spend your time on reddit, but where i spent mine they were accepting of Trans people the whole time and random trolls would just be downvoted to the bottom of the comments.

    The rest of this feels conspiratorial so I’m going to leave it alone.





  • Nah I got the gist of it from your comment, just almost 15 minutes of pure ads at the beginning is abrasive to me.

    I did stick with it, but unfortunately for me I have the same issue as I do listening to an audio book in bed. Even though he’s talking nonsense about butter and whatnot, I’m still paying attention too much. Was worth a shot though.


  • Damn dude, I figured I’d give it a shot. Over 12 minutes in and it’s been ads, introducing the concept, then more ads, then a short song, then another ad, THEN welcoming you to the show with another explanation of the concept. If I wasn’t trying it because of a recommendation I never would have made it this long in.



  • It sounds like the machine will have a few versions, presumably just different specs so that’s up in the air. With the stocking issues that I’m sure will affect all 3 I don’t expect any kind of bundle right away so 99 USD for the controller. The frame has more going for it than my hp reverb g2 and that was 600 years back. I’d have to assume at least 1000, maybe upwards of 1500?

    So maybe 2600 on the upper end if I guess the machine is 1000? I don’t know though because ram is still sky high so my brain isn’t wired for that.