I don't want to have to log into my alarm clock anymore.
"Ditch Windows" is a fair answer. I'm working on it.
Just install Linux, it's time.
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I opened this post just to confirm there would be this reply.
😂 pretty much the reason I posted it.
confirmed; decided one weekend to delete windows off both my computers and install mint. never looked back.
Pee your pants to warm your legs 🙃
OP is working on ditching Windows.
Well then work faster dammit!
/s
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?
Ditch technology.
Sundials are a thing you know!
They are unreliable, since people started storing their damned clouds in my sky
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?"
Have you tried lighting it using a fire? That way the clouds don't bother it
I recommended a watch
Not a smart watch. A regular digital. They work great. Highly reliable. No login necessary.
Battery-powered is never reliable though.
There are watches that don't require a battery. Some require you to rewind by hand, by turning the crown, others are powered by wrist movements.
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.
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.
Again, you have plenty of notice to change the battery. So it'll only fail if you fail.
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.
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.
I wonder if there's a Linux clock you could run under WSL?
watch -n 1 date
This is beautiful.
I mean, there's these ones, for example:
You can download them as Flatpaks and then this guide supposedly allows running Flatpaks under Windows: https://github.com/AbelFalcon/Run-Flatpak-Windows11
I'm guessing, the Xming thing is needed for graphical applications? I have no idea, if that's what people generally use for that...
i don't have windows anymore but i used to use rainmeter for my clocks.
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.
Web app might be best. I'd start with one built into a search engine. Try duckduckgo or brave search.
I have ditch that spyware OS years ago so I never tried the following software but check : ElevenClock
Linux clock app?