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Ah cool. I kinda wish that card issuers would issue a tiny little NFC disc or something so I can just integrate that into whatever and get the same functionality.

But that'd probably be a thing all of 8 people on earth want, and everyone else would lose it or eat it or something.

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Costco has something like that for gas only (e.g. so your teen driver doesn't need the card).

Just give me the NFC bit and let me set a low limit on it, and I'll tape it to a Casio watch or something, I just need something I can wear and buy stuff with. Make it water proof so I can take it swimming too.

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I all keep going back to my Pebble Time. The battery life and focus on productivity are second to none.

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PebbleOS was open sourced and now the original founder who hasn't worked for alphabet for ages wants to build a new device using the now open sourced OS. No way Google can drop support and they have essentially given the code away because they aren't using it anymore.

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Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I’ve been enjoying my Withings watches for fitness tracking and everyday wear as well. They look like a decent, non-smart watch. Battery lasts about a month or so.

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I mean, this is really janky, but you can probably get a second credit card and just cut it down. The NFC area on a credit card is quite small compared to the card itself. I doubt anyone would question it if you were tapping "something" on your wrist to a terminal as people are now used to smartwatch payments.

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Thank you for the rec. I checked them out, but it's not really what I'm looking for. Ideally my watch face will let me see a lot of information related to location and weather. For example, my main Apple Watch face currently shows: a compass, date, time, current temp, the high, the low, the conditions, wind speed and elevation. That's partly why I've stuck with an Apple Watch despite the severe shortcomings

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Gotcha. Yeah that’s a different game.

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I do not trust this. I want it to be true, but I feel like even as a FOSS OS. Maybe I'm an idiot (not maybe) but I had the rug pulled from under me once already,

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I got a Tamagotchi when they were new and it was annoying as fuck, so I stopped playing with it after two days and enjoyed looking at the floating ghost.

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Lol, that's actually genius, maybe I'll try it with a card I don't use much.

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My kid has an Apple Watch but because you can’t play a game on it he often leaves it charging by his bed. He’s also responsible and sets alarms for his chores which means I’m often the only one around when they go off. Sometimes I think about turning it off and hiding it.

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Google rugpulls shit way too often for me to take the risk.

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Raspberry pi Pebble when?

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I've been eyeing Amazfit's watches hard, ever since I saw a coworker with one. Wasn't interested in smartwatches before due to all the compromises each one makes but their watches seem like they're actually good from what I can tell.

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The newer watches can last up to 2 days I think at least my Samsung ones did I would assume apple is about par

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I wonder if there's any ESP32 boards that would work well for this. I know there's a mesh-tastic capable watch that's got to be super programmable.

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OK, so I followed up on this idea and I'm not sure how viable it is. The chip is very small, but the antenna is quite often traced quite far across the card. The layout depends on the card, but might be more of a pain than it's worth.

https://robinminto.com/post/2014/03/21/Disabling-contactless-payment-cards-or-preventing-card-clash-with-Oyster

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Dang. I guess I'll keep my current method for now. Thanks for the update!

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@CancerMancer @prof_wafflez +1 for #Amazfit I'd certainly have another quote happily. Killed my last one (totally user error).
But I've now realised I never use many of a smartwatch's features so I've gone for one that just does notifications and step count

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