Appreciate the replies and definitely going to look into this watch a little bit more. I like the aesthetic of it and the fact it still has buttons as that is an absolute must for me.
It seems like I record more activities than the average person so probably can’t get as much life out of it but even one extra day is a 50% improvement over what I get right now!
Just had a look at this, interesting, although it is bolstering its battery life with solar power.
Do you have real world experience with it? Does it last as long as it claims? I have to charge mine every 2 - 3 days as it is right now.
Judging by all the replies it seems like the Venu watches have exceptionally good battery life in comparison to all the forerunner models I have had!
That makes more sense I guess as I know the GPS is a major battery drain. Maybe that model is also better with battery in general as I know for sure none I have ever owned would last that long just using it as you do. :)
Are you not recording any activities / using any GPS?
Obviously everyone has different use cases and experiences so I don’t want to disregard other experiences it just seems so far out of reach for me compared to the experiences I have had across 5 or 6 different models of their watches over the years.
I have mostly used different iterations of the forerunner range and a Vivosmart which was fucking trash IMO.
10 / 15 days! No way. I have owned multiple garmin watches over the years and none of them have ever lasted 10 days, even when brand new. Even if you don’t actually use them for recording activities I can’t see them ever lasting that long.
My current watch is admittedly 4 years old at this point so I expect some degradation but I average 3 recorded activities a day and the battery will last 3 days at the absolute best and that is running it down to like 2%
I like garmin hardware but struggle to believe anyone is getting 10 days or more from a single charge!
There has been some recent drama relating to the usual knee jerk defederation of an entire instance based on one admins personal opinion but I don’t have any links.
The dog shit admins / moderators aside my main issue is placing so many communities on that one instance just re-centralises things again and that is very bad for the fediverse as a whole imo
Search for relevant communities.
Look at what instance they are hosted on.
Choose the one that isn’t hosted on Lemmy.world
Post there to try and help foster engagement in communities away from .world
I need to give The Dresden Files a try soon I think!
I skipped the last book I had for The Remaining after I got maybe 4 hours in. It was a prologue to the main story and I just didn’t really care for the american army man crap.
So went back to do some Outlanders for a bit before trying out the Lee Harden series of books (which is more “The Remaining”).
Outlanders is good although it is getting a bit wild with many different dimensions going on at the moment.
No. I’m saying that it would be awesome if there were different form factors available. OK…
I did exactly that and got a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 with the money I sold the deck for.
Different form factors of the deck would be awesome. The reason I never used mine and ended up selling it was because I found is so damn uncomfortable and if I wanted to take it anywhere it took up way too much space.
I have been continuing with “The Remaining” books.
I finished the main story arc and it was a good time. I really enjoyed it.
I then went on to the book “Sanctuary” which is a standalone story set in the same world but 6 years later following an entirely new set of characters and ideas and it was easily the best book so far! I thought it was a really great story that expanded on the concepts and universe further and I just couldn’t stop listening. I was absolutely glued to it through out its entirety!
And today I finished “Abe” which was another standalone book follow one of the more minor characters from the main story arc, again in the future of that main story. This couldn’t be more different from sanctuary and was a load of shit to be perfectly honest. I didnt particularly care about the character Abe to begin with but this book made no sense. It was basically a US army squad vs the cartel book where in the infected had no role to play in the book. They were mentioned twice and featured for about 3 minutes and to no consequence to the story so there seemed no point to set this story in this universe at all.
Not only that it wasn’t even a great story. Basically I slogged through to the end waiting for shit to go down with infected that never happened. If you read The Remaining, skip this load of shit!
Next up I’m going to read book 0.5 which i believe is a prologue to the main story arc!
100% education, harm reduction, support and regulation.
It would empower people to make smarter choices about what they consume and the safe ways and doses to consume and what effects to expect rather than scaremongering people with lies which causes experimentation.
Support people that have existing problems to make better choices with their life rather than turning them into “criminals” which then encourages further behaviour that damages society as a whole.
Regulate the substances so that people can know what they are buying is what it is meant to be so they aren’t buying stuff cut with brick dust or plaster board from people in situations that put them at further risk.
And finally tax it and use that tax money to fund public services. Fund things that benefit society as a whole and benefits everyone else who don’t choose to use these things.
Proper research that hasn’t been fabricated to support the lies that are constantly pedalled has proved that all of these things are true and most of these “hard drugs” are safer and less addictive when done properly than alcohol is and that shit is legal. You can’t just look at all the immediate effects either no one is taking MDMA and then going out and fighting or beating their significant other yet alcohol is the fuel for a very large percentage of anti social behaviour and domestic abuse. Women in particular suffer a massive amount at the hands of predominantly men under the influence of alcohol but I’m meant to believe these cunts when they tell me weed or MDMA is “bad”
But I digress, I could rant on this for ages!
Not really, a system that employs first past the post and a house of fucking lords that is based on blood lines is it really the closest approximation of the will of the people?
I couldn’t care less about the tobacco industry I’m arguing for the peoples right to choose what they do with their own bodies, there is a big difference but cool. Have a good day :)
Yeh that is fair, I concede that saying “always” is not accurate.
Ah did they not do it in the end, I knew they were trying to but never heard any more about it so didn’t know if it went through.
We will see, as you say the problem is tobacco companies have a lot of money, I just don’t wish to see prohibition under the guise of public health, prohibition is always a tool of oppression and not in peoples interest. I’d rather see an outright ban in public places to actually benefit public health :)
Yes, I agree, but outright prohibition is not the solution. Ban public smoking fine but outright prohibition is just more social control under the guise of “protecting” people just like how this age verification bullshit is “protecting the kids”
That suits me, I couldn’t care less about the smart watch crap that is included on most of their watches, I have it for the fitness tracking. So even better!