I found all the people who made the unhinged ultradense unusably elaborate winamp skins back in the day! They're now making watch faces in the Garmin app store.
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I found all the people who made the unhinged ultradense unusably elaborate winamp skins back in the day! They're now making watch faces in the Garmin app store.
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Dave Andersonreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
It really whips the llama's ass
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Dave Andersonreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
Or perhaps you'd prefer your time display broken in half and swirled around a rainbow vortex singularity?
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Dave Andersonreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
Don't get me wrong, these are... neat, I guess? But also might I recommend studying the history of watchmaking and pondering why watches historically don't have more than two or three complications, even after transition to the digital era where movement complexity was no longer a concern
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Dave Andersonreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
If you don't trust third parties, why not get your feral watch face direct from Nullsoft - I mean Garmin
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@danderson that there's a whole category for "Data Rich Watch Faces" suggests people really really like their data. If you don't have 32 fields including the wind speed, humidity, time in New York, and the AAPL stock ticker, are you even training?
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Soup For My Familyreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
@danderson Yeah. As a former Pebble user (RIP), the Garmin watch face selection is horrendous. Everything gets crammed in, there are very few simple or fun watchfaces. There are a good few from the Pebble i’d take over any of the Garmin ones
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Dave Andersonreplied to Soup For My Family on last edited by
@gurgle Thankfully garmin's build your own watch face thing did a decent job for me there. Simple background, legible time layout, couple of data elements for vitals I care about, and done.
It is weird to me that the store seems to be full of ultra dense data rich faces, but when you sort by actual installs, the app to find the direction of Mecca gets orders of magnitude more installs than all of them. Strange inversion of what gets put up for sale vs. what sells.
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Soup For My Familyreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
@danderson Good tip. I might try out the DIY option
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Dave Andersonreplied to Soup For My Family on last edited by
@gurgle It's a bit hidden IMO but it's "Garmin Face It" in the IQ store app. My main complaint about it is that it doesn't let me align my 3 little data values, so I have to eyeball it and live with the knowledge that they will always be a few pixels off... Until I snap and learn how to make apps for the thing
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Lukas Grossarreplied to Dave Anderson on last edited by
@danderson @gurgle Getting my
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@danderson Holy shit is that a geiger counter?
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@ohmrun Pretty sure that's either made up or pulled from some weather service, because I don't think anyone's made a portable geiger counter that supports the ANT/ANT+ fitness accessory protocol... yet?...
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@danderson Why are there two temperature readouts? I think this gps coordinates are in Kazakhstan
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@ohmrun I think the more important question is: why are there blank spaces still? There's a whole blue bar that could have more numbers or words. People just don't want to optimize any more.
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@danderson You don't get to be a tenth level autist without encoding some personal trauma in your work.
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@ohmrun @danderson Two? I can see five.
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Dave Andersonreplied to Tomáš Janoušek on last edited by
@liskin @ohmrun Very important to temp-max when you're crushing datapoints. Or something, I dunno.
I think I have a somewhat plausible argument for 3 given what I know of garmin's ecosystem: 1 for body temp (only really used for sleep tracking but whatever), 1 for ambient temp (some people strongly believe in optimizing ambient temp for gains), and 1 for local weather forecast.
I have no idea about the other 2, or indeed why this should all be displayed all the time.
