Stefan JudisThis is absolutely beautiful and very well done.
> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.
Ms Ngo@stefan I had a watch like that as a teenager. It was fine, but it wasn’t wonderful. If they could have done what a modern watch does back then, they would have. I don’t know why you guys romanticize this stuff.
Blobster@causticmsngo @stefan These watches just work and last very very long. Mine is from 2010 or so—a simple model, nothing expensive. The wrist brace has long been broken but I keep the watch in a pocket and it still works like the first day. Good Japanese electronic device.
MadMike77@blobster @causticmsngo @stefan I've replaced my wrist brace twice since I bought it. I bought the brace from ali-express because the price of a locally bought brace would have been 75% of a new Casio F-91W.
TudbuT@causticmsngo @stefan i dont want my tech to think for me, i want it to be a tool. if it tries to get me to do something, then its not a tool.
✨MischaDid you even bother to read the thing? It's not about the watch.
@mischa Yes, I read it. It seems to romanticize old tech, like the pictured watch, as some pinacle of design because it was simpler in some ways.
It was simpler because it was constrained by what was possible at the time.
If your criticism is of surveillance or rentier capitalism, that is something I agree with, though Apple may not be the best example.