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Little Rule Dress

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I was so excited about Apple Watch. Thought how great it would be to not have to take my phone out of my pocket anymore; less screen time, right?
No, it’s just this bullshit. More noise, more alerts, more digital cruft. I put the thing on the charger a couple years ago, been there since.
- Noun
  cruft
  (film, slang) Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
  Ooooh that’s an excellent word - TIL, thanks!
  
  Cruft isn't just stuff on computers. Houses can be full of it. It's left over useless crap, normally with a bit of age to it.
  
  was going to say, that's an awful definition of "cruft"
  EDIT: Wikipedia does a better job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
- Can't you curate your notifications? I mostly use my watch(Samsung) for health and sleep tracking, silent alarms, timers, some audio controls (though usually the headphones touch controls are enough) and important notifications like teams/calls while at work. I let it show me work email too, so a quick glance can tell me if I care, but I can definitely select which notifications but the watch and have a bunch blocked.
  
  I don't know why, but for some reason I have a tag named "fossil" for you haha
  
  Incidentally a superior wrist computer.
  
  I probably called myself old as I am wont to do(in that intersection where people argue if you are an elder millennial or youngest gen x (1982 effectively)).
  
  Yes, but in the end I spent all this time disabling notifications, when I bought the thing to show me them.. I just realized I don’t need that alert immediately and in fact led to me ignoring them since they became just another annoyance (phone, computer and watch all told me the same thing). It became a negative productivity tool.
- My main deciding factor was I think having a "pocket watch" is cooler than a wrist watch.
- As someone who owns both an old Pebble watch and an Apple Watch, there are definitely a lot of days where I think Pebble got it more right than Apple. I think I’d be happiest with something in between that wasn’t artificially weakened by Apple gatekeeping all of their most useful APIs.
- My mom wears her Apple watch as her "I've fallen and can't get up" device. She's mildy amused/ irritated at all the orders it gives her. She's especially irritated at the daily reminder to write in her journal - "I don't have a journal, and I'm not starting now."
- I got the basic apple watch just to track sleep and runs. I turned every single notification off.

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