A side-effect of the li/unix ecosystem overall moving to wayland is that conky is no longer really an option for spicing up your desktop.

Without conky, it’s much less trivial to do “interesting” things beyond window tiling, window decorations, and/or color theming.

Thanks for sharing that link, I thought the watchy had been more-or-less abandoned by the community.

For what it’s worth, GitHub says that chronos firmware had it’s 1.0 release just 5 days ago, so I’m not surprised the other commenter didn’t know about it.

What exactly is meant by “smart features” ? The watch is an esp32 microcontroller driving an ePaper screen and a gyroscope (I forget if there are any other peripherals). It’s already much smarter than a “regular” wristwatch, and being open source you can make it as smart as you want (in theory and within the performance allowed by it’s specs, of course). The stock “os” will fetch the weather and adjust to daylight savings via internet.

Do you mean stuff like there’s no smartphone app available for it? It doesn’t pair with a smartphone out-of-the-box to do things like show SMS, email, calendar events, etc?