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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches:
https://newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g-shock-nano-watch-ring/
This is a joke, right?
E: my enshittified brain thought that this was some kind of AI enabled smart ring that also told the time. This is kinda fun actually, tho I would never get one
Nah itās real. As mentioned, they launched a limited metal ring model that was immensely popular. This is just them riding the wave.
@gerikson @swlabr
When cock ring.?
Anythingās a cock ring if youāre brave enough
Casio and their target market are my kind of nerds. Taking a silly idea and an iconic design and pushing the engineering to its limits entirely for the bit is absolutely unhinged and Iām so happy they did it.
I have an analog Casio G-Shock thatās the perfect beater watch - radio controlled, solar charging, I can discern the hands in the dark without glasses, and almost indestructible. It wasnāt terribly expensive either.
I think Casio is threading the needle quite well with new technology. Iām sure theyāre exploring pure smart watches, but the core ideal is āno maintenanceā - you donāt have to change the battery or set the time[1]. This naturally leads to tough, energy-concious engineering, and as they make millions of watches, they have economies of scale.
The newer models have BT low energy so you can use the admittedly fiddly controls with an app. But you donāt need to. Itās just a complement.
[1] obviously this only applies to the more expensive models, and if your local time source supports DST
All 3 of the major Japanese manufacturers (Casio, Seiko, Citizen) have solar-powered radio sync models, but so far Casio is the best in my experience, and has the widest range of models. The Casios tend to have an auto-DST setting that relies on an internal calendar as well as the time signal. I have a chonky Seiko solar-atomic pilotās watch (with rotary slide-rule bezel!), but it doesnāt have auto-DST so I have to bounce it back and forth between time zones. And it also doesnāt seem to be as adept at receiving the WWVB signal as my Casios; it needs to be next to a window, while the Casios donāt seem to care as long as thereās not too much building mass to the east. I havenāt had a chance to try a Citizen yet, but they now have solar-atomic moon-phase watches, which is tempting.
I have an analog radio-controlled solar powered watch from both Casio and Citizen. The Casio has stepper motors for the hands, which is so cool when you see the minute hand advance 1/6 tick each 20 seconds. When the second hand is used as an indicator, the minute hand doesnāt move. It does on the Citizen.
That said, Iām keeping an eye out for a used or good deal on a GPS watch from Citizen. I appreciate the styling more.
Edit I used to be a watch nerd and I still follow the news for entertainment, but for personal use a solar powered, externally synced quartz watch is ideal.
As a gshock fan, the ādemocratizationā of that initial gshock ring is amazing lol
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@istewart @cstross
@istewart @BlueMonday1984 OK, who at Casio spent too much time reading Heinlein?
@istewart @BlueMonday1984, looks to me like it needs the whole watch face to be the display, though itās possible that Iād find it too small to read unassisted anyway.
I imagine that there wonāt be PV-rechargeable models due to sizeā¦ would be nice to be wrong about that, though.