I don't want to have to log into my alarm clock anymore.

"Ditch Windows" is a fair answer. I'm working on it.

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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Just install Linux, it's time.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I opened this post just to confirm there would be this reply.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    😂 pretty much the reason I posted it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If those fucking game devs told battleye I wouldn’t be in this mess but no anti cheat. Also you have to request battle eye manually to turn on Linux support. So now I have a whole bunch of game publishers who basically choose to not have Linux support.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is this real? The alarm app requires login?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I searched it and found there were some cases of people being asked to login when they used the clock app but it appears to have been a bug.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I haven't encountered this luckily. The only use case I can imagine is syncing alarms and timers across devices? But...I use timers for working, and alarms for waking up. I don't really want those to sync across devices. And it doesn't really seem worth a backup - it takes 30 seconds to set a new alarm.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    But what do you need, do not take it wrong but you can just use a physical clock. Do you want system integration? Or what exactly?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Ditch technology.

    Sundials are a thing you know!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They are unreliable, since people started storing their damned clouds in my sky

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Where else am I supposed to store my data? People keep telling me to store my files in the clouds, but when I do it's always "ah man, it's cloudy again, I want sunshine!" and "why is it snowing paper?"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    I recommended a watch

    Not a smart watch. A regular digital. They work great. Highly reliable. No login necessary.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Battery-powered is never reliable though.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Why not? The battery lasts about 2 years, and the LCD numbers slowly (and very noticeably) get darker over a period of weeks before it dies, so you have plenty of notice.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    unless it lasts more than 100 years it could reasonably fail within someone's life. Nuclear energy is nice because it is more or less the only energy source that can do this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Again, you have plenty of notice to change the battery. So it'll only fail if you fail.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    exactly the worst time for it too fail. if it failed only when you treated it perfectly there would be almost no issue as you could just replace it. A good system should only ever rely on basic competence for things that instincts will remind the human to do (food and water) and not break down when the person is in a depression spiral.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    Not exactly a replacement but I like www.sharpworldclock.com.

    I needed something that display time from various countries in long straight horizontal bar and I needed it to speak out the time in the language I am learning. It doesn't seems to be open source though, but I can't find anything else similar.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wonder if there's a Linux clock you could run under WSL?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It wouldn’t be too hard to make an open source version of this. I’d offer to do it, but I’m busy at the moment. You could ask a local college professor to make an assignment around this though. It would be a great learning project for a student.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Thank you. That will be cool, No worries if you have no time it is not critical. Screenshot below is how I have sharpworldclock setup currently as a single horizontal strip.

    Listing out my requirement for anyone interested in such a project.

    • A non fancy clock that display time of various countries in a thin horizontal bar size of a typical windows title bar. Include name of country/city or abbreviation, customization. see screenshot above.
    • always on-top
    • click through
    • speak out time in language preferred, TTS
    • some basic multi-zone scheduling alarm features
    • meeting planner, displays all the times in my list to assist in planning meetings.
    • other stuff like sticky notes, weather, news feed are bonus, not important.

    Actually if it can display the various clock in the taskbar it will be even better, like 1stClock https://www.1stclock.com/world-time-zone-clock.php I like how 1stClock is non-intrusive, small and out of the way and boring, no fancy graphic or UI.

    A open source program like 1stClock that display multiple time zone in task bar and speaks out time at certain interval will be good enough for me. Or maybe I just need to find a separate program that speaks out time in my preferred language.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Actually, if there’s a website that shows what you want, you could use my Stream Overlay app to show that in an always on top, click through window.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    That is pretty cool actually, might try it for language learning while playing game, especially for games that can only work in full screen.

    Does your app allow clicking? in this way I can run DeepL translator app to region capture and use it to OCR and translate the text that I captured in game, while playing game full screen.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You can open windows in either click through or click mode. If they’re click through, you can focus them from the tray icon, then click on them. You can also open multiple overlay sets in different modes.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    i don't have windows anymore but i used to use rainmeter for my clocks.

    https://visualskins.com/skin/minialarm

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Ah yes, the ol' windows app that got updated in the background but then also needs to update when you open it for some reason.

    Sometimes this happens when installing a new app, it will need an update literally seconds after installing it.

    The Microsoft app store is such a broken mess.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I have ditch that spyware OS years ago so I never tried the following software but check : ElevenClock

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Web app might be best. I'd start with one built into a search engine. Try duckduckgo or brave search.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Linux clock app?

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