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Semi-Hemi-Demigod, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?
@Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social avatar

I never really liked watches to begin with. I sweat a lot and it would always smell funky under my band. The last watch I had I got a machine washable nylon band to prevent this and had to wash it every other day.

RubberElectrons, (edited ) in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?
@RubberElectrons@lemmy.world avatar

Regular watch, my $60 watch has traveled to 5 continents with me over the past decade. Lightweight, has a dim illumination when needed, and ticks right even after some rugged adventures.

I honestly wouldn’t ask a smartwatch to handle what I’ve put my regular watch through.

Horsey, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

I love wearing a smart watch. I’d never use anything but a galaxy/Apple watch.

justlookingfordragon, in Is it ok to use acronyms similar to those on an equally or more popular discussion forum?
@justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world avatar

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t non-commercial use of trademarked stuff ok? I was under the impression that it only counts as copyright infringement if you somehow profit from it, which would not be the case in most communities here.

(I’m not a lawyer tho so I could just be wrong)

DeathWearsANecktie, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

Smartwatch. They just have more functionality. Not sure what else there is to say!

Zectivi, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

I use a Garmin Venu 2. It’s a “smart enough” watch where it’s not annoying in terms of notifications, but it provides all of the data I could imagine needing relating to my fitness activities. I started using it after Mozilla reviewed Garmin’s stance on privacy.

I also have a Seiko kinetic watch I wear for nice or more formal events.

Rottcodd, in Is it ok to use acronyms similar to those on an equally or more popular discussion forum?

I say use whatever the fuck words you want to use.

IMO the only relevant issue is whether or not they accomplish the task of communicating the thing you wanted to communicate in the way you wanted to communicate it. If so, then they’re as right as they need to be, and any objection anyone else might have is only your problem to the extent that you allow it to be. If you care what they think then it matters, but if you don’t then it doesn’t.

cheese_greater,

K can we use it without having to worry about Redit raining down on our fledgling platform like thunder lol

Rottcodd, (edited )

Certainly.

I saw in another post that AMA is apparently copyrighted (which is ridiculous, but I guess rent-seeking fuckwads are gonna do what they’re gonna do). At worst, what that means though is that if the fuckwads at Reddit care enough, they can arrange for a DMCA takedown if someone uses it.

And unless they’re even more stupid than I cynically presume, Reddit isn’t even going to do that, since the last thing they should want to do is try to establish a precedent of criminal sanctions against forums that host copyrighted material.

saltesc,

We should just have AMW anyway. Sounds way cooler, like we dgaf.

“Yeah, I’m a frog. Ask me whatever.”

Rottcodd,

I’m sold.

cheese_greater,

[singsong] Luvvvvvitttt!

sanguine_artichoke,
@sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social avatar

A short term like that would be trademarked, not copyrighted. The two have very different rules.

cheese_greater,

That was me lol

slurpeesoforion,

Doesn’t it require they defend the copyright?

cheese_greater,

Thats what I mean tho, can they even defend against us using it regardless of their preference on the matter?

PepperTwist, in People of Lemmy that take more than 5 seconds to start your car and drive, what are you doing?

Letting the oil circulate for a bit, adjusting fan-settings, A/C, selecting music etc. If it’s wintertime I let the car warm up for a while while I scrape the windows.

overat8, (edited ) in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

I have an Apple Watch because of its ability to detect falls. Since I commute a lot by cycling if I were to get into an accident(hit and run, or I fall off my bike) and fall unconscious, the watch would be able to alert the police and get me the medical attention I need. As well as the watch could provide the ambulance worker a way to identify me because my information is on the watch in case I forgot my id card.

Candelestine, in Is it ok to use acronyms similar to those on an equally or more popular discussion forum?

The term AMA is technically copyrighted. Nobody here really cares much though, except maybe the admins that have their hardware in countries where they’re vulnerable to being sued for hosting copyright infringing stuff.

They get to care for us.

cheese_greater, (edited )

So can we safely do it or put CMV: For ChangeMyView entries?

Candelestine,

Yep. No problems as of yet.

shinigamiookamiryuu, (edited )

You technically could, though there are burrows (the Lemmy term for communities) that are better for it, since this one is more for questions.

Remember that if a burrow doesn’t exist that’s to your liking, you could always make one (and I might join).

MacedWindow,
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

Ive been on Lemmy for awhile and you are the first person I’ve seen refer to a Lemmy community as a burrow - where did you get the term from?

I tried to search engine it but they still don’t seem to like indexing lemmy.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

People on Lemmy are referred to as Lemmings, named after the animal, which makes its homes in burrows. One day someone asked what the equivalent here for “subreddit” was and burrows were mentioned and everyone was like “yeah let’s do that”… I still have the reply chain link that shows all that, though the post itself is removed, so on my end that exchange doesn’t show up anymore.

cheese_greater, (edited )

c/changemyview IS the Lemmy burrow

Edit:

burrows ≈ communities?

Edit: u can join me in my private burrow anytime ;)

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Oh… misinterpreted that as just a part of the example, my bad.

cheese_greater,

Feel free to join me in my private burrow anytime ;)

shinigamiookamiryuu,

I’d love to. Which one is it?

cheese_greater, (edited )

I was being saucy, I don’t run any private instances aha. Feel free to bookmark me however you like or DMs tho ;)

Edit: what does your username mean?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

It’s a convoluted anime reference. Shinigami are the Japanese equivalent to reapers and commonly feature in Shintoism which finds its way into anime. “Ookami” and “Ryuu” are anime characters associated with shinigami. I forgot the whole story of my username, but I know I was attempting to copy over from DeviantArt which is a site I use too.

cheese_greater,

Ah k, thanks for that. I dont know anything about anime unfortunately, was more into adult swim ;)

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

“Ask me anything” as a specific logo typeface is trademarked; but the term is too generic to be copyrighted.

shinigamiookamiryuu,

What, really? I actually didn’t know this. By who though?

Follow up question: What if my initials are AMA?

cheese_greater, (edited )

By Redit…?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

I mean I know it’s associated with Reddit, but I didn’t know it was trademarked by them.

cheese_greater,

Who else could that be relevant for, thats where it was implemented first, isn’t it?

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Yes, but what I mean is I didn’t expect Reddit to go full Hollywood on the term. It would be like Lemmy gatekeeping the term Lemming. So I then wondered if maybe someone else seized that opportunity.

cheese_greater, (edited )

Do we have everything like reserved or copyrighted in a way that some asshole can’t take it away forever?

Edit: you’re giving Redit way too much cRedit if you don’t think they wouldn’t swoop in 5sec after reading this post

shinigamiookamiryuu,

If nobody has swooped in yet, they probably won’t. At the moment, “AMA” seems like it has kleenex status.

cheese_greater,

Thats not the point, I want to make aure I don’t spend time on something Redit can use against us or influence. I don’t like when things CAN be taken away from me. Thats why everybody relies on contracts to maximize certainty in the future

shinigamiookamiryuu,

I cannot speak for anyone aside from myself, but I would be confident betting on the fact Reddit won’t weaponize if we do as you were asking. I myself enjoy these liberties frequently. I am the world record holder for the most sites having been signed up for (a strange world record some might say, but hey, a landmark is a landmark) and I’ve never come across a place where people complained about acronyms.

cheese_greater,

I don’t like others having the power to put a pin it it for me. Its more important to me that someone can’t influence my choices than whether they would, does that make sense? Buy the land before you build the cottage, don’t be improvisitory on this thing

shinigamiookamiryuu,

Yes, that makes sense. And relatable in a way.

cheese_greater,

That was adorable when you described yourself :) made my day

cheese_greater,

I feel like we’ll be just fine, have a good night

cheese_greater,

Thats neat, Im a bit tired but I’ll read thru it when I’m feeling a bit better :)

cheese_greater,

Thats an interesting twist 😹

cheese_greater,

Can someone page a Lemmy.world admin to clarify?

logicbomb, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

What timing! I am so pissed at my smartwatch right now.

I got a smart watch because I was having some sleep problems, and I found that some Apple watches can monitor your oxygen levels while sleeping. I suspected it was related to other things like stress, but I wanted to be a bit more comfortable and say that it’s probably not sleep apnea.

So, the point is that I must wear it when I’m sleeping. Also, like any reasonable person, I have my phone set up not to disturb me at night. But at least on Apple watches, this means that my alarm goes off only on my watch. I can’t figure out any way for it to not go off on my watch, and only go off on my phone, unless I simply take off the watch.

It’s the MOST ANNOYING THING. First, because it means that you can’t have your alarm go off across the room. You can always turn it off on your watch, which means that you can even turn it off without waking up. And then, you have no alarm at all. So, if I absolutely have to wake up for some meeting or airplane or something, I can’t wear my watch to bed.

Also, maybe this is just me, but I hate when my watch vibrates on my wrist. I hate the feeling. Every time it vibrates, I have the urge to smash the thing. If I had to choose a set up, I’d have my phone always vibrate, and my watch never vibrate. But I can’t figure out how to make that work on Apple.

This morning was an absolute nightmare, though. Now, I’m used to turning off my alarm on my watch, but when I went to turn it off this morning, the watch was deep in some shitty menu. I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. And it was just vibrating on my wrist non-stop. Obviously, this was made much more difficult because I was just waking up.

I eventually figured it out, but the point is that the UI is obviously less refined than, for example, the phone UI, where this sort of alarm hiding has never happened in all of my years owning a smart phone.

Anyways, to answer your question, I prefer to wear a smart watch, because a regular watch doesn’t do anything for me. But goddamn do I hate my smart watch right now!

Psychodelic,

Have you heard of hybrid watches? I have a fancy kronaby but there’s other options. The battery lasts months and it does the basics pretty well

Kolanaki, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I don’t like either. I don’t use things for fashion, and the phone alone gives me all the function of either watches without it giving me sensory issues by being a bracelet on my wrist.

Bishma, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?
@Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I enjoyed having a smartwatch back in the pebble days. I was kind of addicted to notifications (especially from datadog) at the time. My Pebble time made me feel less stressed because glancing at my watch was less effort than pulling out my phone.

Then Pebble was killed off, web-scale infrastructure became more reliable, and I learned to recover from my notification addiction. Now I’m happily watchless again.

dion_starfire,

Have you looked into Rebble? I’m still wearing my Time Steel as a daily driver. I’ve yet to find a newer smartwatch that hits all the features I care about.

mesamunefire, (edited )

Pebble was so nice back in the day.

Now I just wear a Casio and it will be my forever watch. They let you repair everything about the watch.

pancakesyrupyum, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

Both, but much more of my days are an Apple Watch SE2 than my DW5600.

I use it as a HUD - I want to know the exact time for work, current temps high/low, sunrise / sundown times, and a pop up for screening phone notifications helps me quite a bit with not checking my phone as much. I also appreciate wrist heart rate (for keeping anxiety in check,) compass is neat, and knowing the local dB is helpful for keeping my tinnitus from getting worse.

I never thought I’d like a smartwatch until I tried one.

Jackthelad, in Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?

A regular watch.

I’ve never seen the point of a smart watch, unless you’re using it for fitness.

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