This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.

[stefan@front-end.social]

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.

> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

[causticmsngo@mastodon.social]

@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@infosec.exchange]

@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.

[jackeric@beige.party]

@stefan My Casio F91 occasionally resets itself to 12hr mode (i.e. I accidentally press the button somehow) and doesn't show the leading zero for hours 00-09, which would irk me more if I wasn't usually asleep in those times

[jab01701mid@mastodon.social]

@stefan There's also a finance/MBA explanation that deserves blame for the "lack of silence" of our modern device infrastructure.
You can't go into a bank, or VC pitch, or IPO roadshow, with the idea that you are going to sell 10's-of-millions of $35 devices with no "ongoing recurring revenue", some "service" that means you get paid every month, can monetize the "relationship" in various ways.
It's not going to happen.
That's what sucks most.

[redfaceduakari@mastodon.social]

@stefan There's a forcing function for products that don't come with relationships: they're easy to break up with. If a seller then wants to maintain a relationship, the onus is more on them, and they're encouraged to align to your interests. Relationships in late-stage capitalism enshittify.

[madmike77@chaos.social]

@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.

[cdegroot@mstdn.ca]

RE: https://front-end.social/@stefan/116345248295405561

Exactly why my watches tell time. ok, I have one also tells temperature and compass direction. And why my favorite watch is my 1915 one: it just ticks and tells me the time, all in exchange for a wind every other day