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BanazirGalbasi

I'm currently wearing a F-91W with one of these installed. Here's what I have running:

* Clock

* Sunrise and Sunset times

* Die roller (d2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100)

* Stopwatch

* Temperature sensor

* 36-hour temperature log

The die roller was the main one that I was excited about, but the sunrise/sunset seem useful while hiking or backpacking, and the temperature sensor and log are great for camping use. Great job by @josecastillo all around!

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Curious what you use the die roller for?

It's honestly kind of nice for trivial decision-making. The d2 displays H/t instead of 1 and 2, so it's an actual coin flip. Other than that, I just wanted it for the novelty, pulling it out during D&D was hilarious.

I thought you were using it for dice man-esque decision making :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man

Die are great for decisions you don’t care about. Assign options for eating lunch, say, to numbers, roll the die, if you feel the need to fudge the result now your actual preference is revealed.

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