maya ⛓️

confessions: i ordered this because i thought it was too cute
https://repebble.com/index

i'm now seeing that they've made a round one, an actually non-hideous smart watch https://repebble.com/watch

and i could finally make my Only Shows The Moon, Why Would You Need To Know The Time watch dreams come true

i have no integration plans

what am i doing

do i order the watch????

Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain

Just $75 - pre-order today!

Repebble Store
Mar 17 at 10:59pmWeb
Show threadmaya ⛓️Mar 18
update: i have no more backbone than a chocolate eclair (i also ordered the watch)
Show threadmaya ⛓️Mar 18
i'm thinking, simple ambitions... moon phase as default face. maybe with my little calendar sigil overlaid (e: https://maya.land/the-annunciation/, see maya.land/reenchanted-time for my whole solar year bullshit) or maybe it waits till interaction to flash that. sigil showing correct quarter or cross-quarter image, rotated to correct season, with dot indicating how far along between holidays
on interaction, it should show time but also date (the thing i forget the most)?
the annunciation

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Show threadmaya ⛓️Mar 19
oh: show how far through the solar day we are. of course i need that. how could i forget that.
Show threadmaya ⛓️Mar 27
i got the sizers! wish they had a 7.5. has anyone played around with smart rings before and come to an opinion about erring on the side of tight or loose? (if i go small i might be able to make it work on my middle finger anyway)
Show threadFi 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 27

@maya

from my experience with regular rings, if they're marginally too tight they will definitely chafe and cause significant problems for your skin.

Show threadmaya ⛓️Mar 27
@munin I've done okay with regular rings at this fit, but they tended to be thinner bands, I guess.... hmm
Show threadnashMar 18
@maya you're kinda making me want one of these 😅
Show thread∴ esoterik ∴Mar 18
@maya this is maybe more my interest than yours but there’s a uxn port for the pebble that @angelwood made
Show threadThe Witch of Crow BriarMar 19
@maya have I mentioned lately just how much I love your whole deal? Because I do
Show threadsōmMar 18
@maya yessss i also bought i couldnt help myself the round is just *too* cute
Show threadbrennenMar 19

@maya i realized after you posted this yesterday that i, at least theoretically, have a square one coming. i bought it in one of those "well, i'll do this and forget about it and maybe in a year or two it will arrive" moments i'm trying to have fewer of.

the ridiculous thing i have wanted in a watch for years is a tiny orrery. it will be interesting to see if that's at all feasible.

Show threadJackMar 17

@maya Curious what you think about it after you have it in hand for a bit.

Waffled between this and a PineTime and ended up with the PineTime mostly for "if I hate it, it's the cheaper one to have to replace" reasons lol. (It's fine so far, but not discounting Pebble for the future)

Show threadmaya ⛓️Mar 17
@jack i think i'm going to try to keep myself from buying the watch for now... i don't have a very crisp idea of what i'd do with it, and my Killer Smartwatch would have to have slack notifications (😞)
Show threadJackMar 17

@maya er, if you order the watch, that is.

curious how well the ring works too. know folks that like the oura but surveillance corps, etc etc. (all the reasons i assume any of us lean toward open source instead of the other options)

Show threadbrennenMar 17
@maya hmmmmmmm.
Show threadash 🍃✨Mar 17
@maya oh these are stinkin cuuutteeeeeee
Show threadJoãoMar 17
@maya do a square moon and save some money!!! (jk get the watch)
Show threadbouncepaw 🍄Mar 18
@maya yes order it, a dream that comes true is worth it P. S. and the round one is cuter....
Show threadAnneMar 18
@maya when they announced this I thought to myself, "but do i really think repebble is going to work? do i really want to order one?" and then I closed the tab, but like. I need to replace my smartwatch since the battery has degraded some. I want a month of battery life. I miss my weird blocky black and white plastic pebble from 2015. I am tempted.....
Show threadAnneMar 18
@maya my current smartwatch is, of course, an amazfit band 5 from 2021 which was extremely cheap and which is probably sending my heart rate info directly to China, which I have mitigated by not telling it correct values for my gender or weight and repeatedly denying it location privileges when it asks for them. So like. Maybe I could have a nice thing instead.
Show threadAnneMar 18
@maya (not to be xenophobic, i just hope whoever it is whose job it is to monitor heart rates in china is having a good time analyzing my data? they probably are not but I can hope)
Show threada very weeny construct 💀Mar 18

@maya i vote "yes of course obviously you should buy that"

i want to think that since it can talk to a smartphone app, there should be a way to wedge slack notifications in there with enough time and tinkering

Show threadAnneMar 18
@maya I ordered the square one, if you want I will report back on whether slack notifs work in a few months when it arrives. My original Pebble got all the notifs for my Android, including Slack. Which was more of a curse than a blessing when my group chat posted something wildly nsfw in the slack we use to chat, when I worked in-person at an office. My original Pebble did not support emoji but that only somewhat limited the nsfw blast radius
Show threadEthan MarcotteMar 19

@maya oh no maya

oh no i should not have this information