Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

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        1 year ago

        I always see the software working people go nutty for the new hardware and dohickies.

        Meanwhile a lot of people I knew who worked on hardware live in the woods “off grid”.

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          1 year ago

          I know a hardware guy that lives on a farm and uses raspberry pi for his garden hoses.

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          If by “software” you mean Web or Java or something like that, then, well, for the purpose of this conversation they are enthusiasts.

          While people working on hardware are forced to get some understanding of how the world around us works.

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            1 year ago

            I think the difference is simply between who has to go on site to fix an issue and those who “theoretically” could.

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        So true. The more I work with all these services and social networks the fewer of them I have. More to the point, I have bunch of devices around my home which are IoT and similar but almost none have access to internet, printer included. Funny thing is, my friends keep asking why am I slowly removing my presence from all of tech even though I am on forefront of it… but when I go and explain how each search can be exploited and abused they laugh and say naaah that will never happen or “I don’t have anything to hide”… and it keeps happening and privacy keeps leaking.

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          Some people have a hard time imagining bad outcomes or “thinking like a bad guy”. I guess that’s why infosec people are needed lol.

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        1 year ago

        (Almost) my entire house is smart, but nothing talks to the cloud anymore.

        So nobody can get that data except me. Some exceptions are that I dont have or want smart locks, that just seems to insecure and unreliable.

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        1 year ago

        Though in IT, I do have a (limited) smart home but also old tech like a 40s Western Electric phone, a few 1920s-40s typewriters, a few vintage woodworking tools, myriad vintage and new fountain pens (I use them to take notes… you know, on paper gasp). I have and wear lots of budget watches (err, but, one at a time) … from the 1890s - present, mechanical and quartz.

        The nicest oldest ones are a 1895 Elgin hunter pocket watch (ladies size 6) and a 1930s Hamilton open face size 10. I often wear vintage wristwatches: Bulova, Elgin, Waltham, Timex, and Seiko. I have more modern ones including Fortis, Orient, Casio, Bulova, and more.

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      My G Shock is super reliable and will never need a battery. No way I’m swapping it out for some fragile piece of junk screen that mostly displays a clock that dies every few days.

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        Yup, some great g-shocks out there. I have dw5600. Awesome watch. Some day I will get the 5610.

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          I have had the same automatic (self winding) for over a decade. Wear it almost everyday, it gets beat up and used hard but still works great. And no batteries is nice.

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            1 year ago

            Nice, what brand?

            I like mechanical watches a lot although I don’t like the service cost lol.

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              Well this one is more of a happy accident. It is a Fossil, and was a warranty replacement for a battery watch I bought. Have had not much luck with the battery Fossils but they seem to make a solid (or did not sure if they still do) automatics.