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Comment on How should I make my personal website? in ~tech
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Comment on Any fans of regular non-smart watches? in ~hobbies
plett Link ParentI have an SNK809 and also used to have a Timex Expedition (which I think uses a similar quartz movement as the Weekender, but with an added date complication) and the Timex was so loud that I also...Yeah. So's my 809, which I keep on my headboard, but has since run out of juice as I don't wear it, because the hairspring likes to vibrate out of place on my bike.
I have an SNK809 and also used to have a Timex Expedition (which I think uses a similar quartz movement as the Weekender, but with an added date complication) and the Timex was so loud that I also had to keep it in a drawer at bedtime. The Seiko is nearly silent though, in a quiet room I have to hold it up to my ear to be able to hear it ticking.
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Comment on Any fans of regular non-smart watches? in ~hobbies
plett LinkI seem to alternate between really appreciating having phone notifications appear on my wrist, and wishing to be rid of the darn distractions on about a 6 monthly period, so swap between smart and...I seem to alternate between really appreciating having phone notifications appear on my wrist, and wishing to be rid of the darn distractions on about a 6 monthly period, so swap between smart and dumb watches semi regularly.
My smartwatch is a Pebble 2 SE. And while it's excellent at everything it does, I don't love it. If it broke, I would probably try to source a replacement one, but I wouldn't mourn the loss of the old one.
My dumb watch however, is a Seiko SNK809 automatic watch. That's the watch I love. I love it for the engineering inside it as much as the aesthetics. It's a precision engineered mechanical item with zero electronics, whose manufacturing process has been perfected over many years to the point where it's cheaper to buy than most smart watches. It has a sweeping second hand and makes a nice ticking noise when you hold it to your ear.
But my Seiko is showing its age. It's probably 10 years old now and has never had a service or a clean and isn't keeping time as well as it did when it was new. I can't find anyone locally (I'm in the UK) who can look at it for less than the cost of a whole new one, so if it's going to get fixed then I probably have to do it myself. I'm sure that's possible, but I've never taken apart something that delicate and I'm worried that I will destroy the thing I love. So for now, it stays imperfect, and I wear it less often because of that.
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Comment on Vimeo is not very good in ~tech
plett LinkI wanted to check the dead links in the categories pages, as that seems like it would be an easy thing that they should be noticing. But you can't browse around the videos without a login, so I...I wanted to check the dead links in the categories pages, as that seems like it would be an easy thing that they should be noticing. But you can't browse around the videos without a login, so I went to make one.
But then, on the login form, the pre-ticked box which says
I agree to receive newsletters, product updates, and exclusive offers from Vimeo.is displayed white on light grey, and is completely unreadable until I select the text. If the tick button hadn't been there, I probably wouldn't have noticed that there was even text there at all.A screenshot of what I saw: https://imgur.com/a/IbcQyUC
If that's the sneaky sort of GDPR-violating company that they are, then I probably don't want to create an account at all.
For that, you would want this page: https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/
Hugo's documentation is very good. I've used Hugo for a few small sites and have always found that the problems I encounter are common enough for answers to be in the documentation.