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
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 mean in my opinion all the 90’s - 00’s Nickelodean and Cartoon Network cartoons are better than all that Marvel and DC trash you have listed there but I realise that is probably a controversial opinion with how fervent those fan bases are but shit at least try some like:
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Grimm Adventures of Billy & Mandy
Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack
Adventure Time
The Wonderful World of Gumball
Regular Show
Cow and Chicken
Angry Beavers
To name just a few, there was a huge thread recently which covers pretty much everything you should check out Here on asklemmy
Oh, shame, but thanks for the info!
Have they added support for any watches yet? I have had my eye in this for ages as I’d love to try it but haven’t checked in a while!
I don’t currently have a copy, but after talking about it today I need to find one and watch it again too!
Fuck yeh!
Whilst I watched a shit load of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network in those days which was full of shorts too my memory of those isn’t as good unfortunately but I’ll keep an eye out for that post in the future in the hopes of some nostalgia!
Yeh I wasn’t sure on that suggestion but then you had the likes of Courage, Billy and Mandy, Invader Zim etc so thought it was worth a punt.
I feel like I have more rattling around in my head SK if I think of any more over the day I’ll reply again. I grew up on that era of cartoons and have so many fond memories of them!
Do you have Rugrats in there, I feel like that is an obvious choice I can’t see
I may have missed them in the list but how about
The Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack
Chowder
Catdog
Rocket Power
Ren & Stimpy
Doug
As Told by Ginger
The Wild Thornberrys
Johnny Bravo
Sharkey and George
I Am Weasel
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!