I got an Apple Watch in lieu of like actual payment for editing pornography and it died on me right after the warranty expired. Maybe all it needed was a new battery? But I couldn’t afford that so I never got it checked out by a Certified Genius. I did like having a watch for awhile. Made me feel kinda professional. I wish I’d gotten money instead, I was owed way more money than that, but it was an ok gadget. I had a nice band for it. Maroon. Fell apart though. Maybe that’s why the watch died. Cuz it fell off my wrist and hit the pavement that one time? Dunno if I’d ever buy a watch band off Etsy again. It’s hard shopping cod accessories. So few look good. That’s my watch story. Thank you for reading.
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It’s Duo. Microsoft Authenticator stopped working with the watches a few months ago. Not sure about authy.
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I feel like if I had notifications and metrics strapped to my body like that I would risk something about my mental stability.
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fuck notifications in general
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I got a slightly nicer fitness band that supports notifications and stuff and over time I turned more and more of them off to the point where it’s just a watch that shows the time now
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the thought of being able to use Duo 2FA on my watch, which i have to do on my iPhone a few dozen times a week, may have just sold me on an Apple Watch
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A regular ass watch somehow turns into something I look at compulsively regardless of my current time pressure
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I guess the obvious endpoint of Apple trying to make iPhone as a games platform happen happened when everyone found out the RE4 remake is going to be a 60 dollar app (granted across all Apple devices that can run it) and promptly ran with “60 dollar phone game” headlines and people laughing at how Apple honestly expects a poisoned audience to pony up 60 bucks for a phone game
meanwhile I’m just gnashing my teeth about how two 50 dollar top-ups in Genshin gives more value than one 100 dollar top-up, which does not make sense and
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I stopped wearing the Apple Watch already
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Bonis points if you look at it while someone is talking to you.
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Which is more insulting? Watch or phone check while you’re talking?
if it is a normal/dumb watch, what’s so wrong about checking time, someone might have a good reason to keep track of time, i.e. if you don’t use it to bail out of a conversation, nothing wrong with that?
I feel like I was taught as a kid that looking at your watch while someone is talking to you implies that you’re impatient for them to finish
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OK, that didn’t seem to be a thing the elders were adamant about (come to think of it: first watch I ever had was a dress watch, got that at the age of 10 or so? — only for special occasions, of course. First ‘proper’ daily driver was the usual CASIO digital watch,
probably around 13-14) … knowing which knife to use for what was more important to them, i guess 
on-topic Questione: anyone having a recommendation for an (Intel or similar) NUC type PC w/ two (RJ45, at least 1GbEth) Ethernet-ports? When I bought the AMD-based ASRock Deskmini A300
the marketplace was looking quite different than today, i.e. you didn’t have to sift through hundreds of NUC clones that are then pretty much just that: clones, sporting a different 3D printed case and cheap(er) powerbrick.
this seems to be the smallest (not in shape/form though) offering w/ 12th gen CPU from Intel, which… uh, I already have an mITX case, thanks.
Thought of a solution using two USB(-C preferrably) to RJ45 dongles to guarantee at least wirespeed routing between both, but would love a highly integrated tiny box, like we all do in the ITX-mini (or smaller) Club. Alas, if you have any reccs, a mention would be highly appreciated.
n.b. Forseen usage is recreational network tap device for home network management/educational network config&troubleshooting helper. Maybe even thinking of doing a passthrough-NAS kind of build for my sister, since she’s no interest in PCs at all, but likes her an offline/no wireless policy fwiw, and it will be unplugged every night, so normal NASes are out immediately (and the black box/integrated shape solution has the nice advantage of having just one box to unplug and bringing back to me for regular maintenance).
That became a bit longer than the usual ‘hey, any rec?’ post, sorry, but this is my pet peeve atm 
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I’ve seen the DCMI9, yes:
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/de/de/ark/products/216963/intel-nuc-12-extreme-kit-nuc12dcmi9.html
indeed…
I had to wear a Fitbit for my work’s insurance plan, beyond even when it’s screen died and it only worked as a tracker. I went with the slightly nicer model that actually looks like a watch rather than that weird base one. The one saving grace was the Goldeneye watchface. The tracking app was a hassle to use and didn’t automatically communicate with my insurance’s site so I didn’t even get the discount on my plan I was supposed to get.
They switched our plan thankfully and I’m now back to the hand me down Pebble my mom bought before she got an Apple Watch. I’ll be sad when it dies, as a lot of them are now.
There was a short time before I had that where someone gave me some janky cheapo smartwatch that probably worked great under Android but didn’t play nicely with my phone.
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still cheaper & lower-power (TPD) than an N100-based mini PC. but the prices are getting closer, also the rPi 5 is hotter and worse at video
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