Are people really not aware that you don’t have to have notifications for everything?
You can turn all the notifications off on your phone and watch.
The value the watch brings can be found in other places, for example, being able to stay connected and have music and emergency contact without needing to lug your phone with you during a run or if you lose your phone.
A smart watch means you can leave your phone at home more often in general while still being available to those who genuinely need to be in contact with you, which is great for reducing doom scrolling and the like.
Right?? One of the first things I do when getting a new phone is disabling all the useless notifications and keeping the ones I care about. My phone doesn’t spam with notifications all day.
“the touch screen is broken”
I found this in my jewelry box when I was packing for moving. Throwback to the 80s! Very much doesn’t work.
I’ll bet you it does, but you’ll need to put a new battery in it.
If we’re doing watches today, here’s what I’m rocking lately.
I stopped using my Garmin smartwatch because they finally fell into the enshittification trap and recently tried adding AI slop and a subscription scheme into their watch app. That’s a big old nope from me, dawg.
I’m rocking a $5 Ali watch with a nice rainbow watch band.Nice. It is astounding what you can get for just a couple of bucks, and even more astounding that they genuinely work.
I would have bought something from a real brand but a red watch that matched the band at all was either this or like $10k, no in between it seemed.
Wow I love this!
I broke two of those. One taking something out of my pocket the crown caught and once the crown caught on rubber gloves I was removing.
Sorry to hear that. I’ve had this one for a few years now and work out in the bush all day and I haven’t had any issues.
I’ve got a Expedition Chronograph for a couple years that has been good.
I love my phone to a not great degree, but I would hate a smartwatch. I don’t like wearing watches anyways, but something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty. At least on my phone I can listen to podcasts, music, radio, etc, and I can read books and magazines. A smartwatch just feels like a shackle. Also every time I go to concerts or theater now and see the lights go down and all the smartwatches glowing in unison it’s creepy.
something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty
It’s the same when it’s in your pocket. I’d say the issue is not that it buzz all the time on your wrist, but that it buzz all the time. I disabled most notifications, except for a selection of people and apps. When I get a notification, it is usually important enough that I should check it. Everything else (including non-emergency work stuff) is checked on my own accord, when I feel like it.
Having the notifications pop on my wrist, with that system, does not feel like a shackle more than a phone constantly turning its screen on to tell you you have unread whatever.
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