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I’d skip the certificate part. The skills matter, the paper doesn’t. My sister did a full-day course and the only thing she actually used later was knowing how to check gums and breathing, which you can look up in ten minutes.
I’ve tried both and the difference is smaller than people make it out to be. Direct skin does feel slightly warmer, sure, but it’s not some night and day thing that changes the whole experience. The bigger factor for me is that bare skin means the controls sit right where I can reach them without digging under fabric, which matters more than the heat difference. Over a shirt is fine if you’re lazy about it, and I don’t think anyone is missing out by doing that. The pulse doesn’t suddenly hit deeper just because there’s no cotton in the way. So if the shirt works for you, keep doing it. I wouldn’t rearrange your routine chasing a marginal warmth bump.
I set a reminder on my phone for the first of each month and just check while I’m having coffee. Whether I actually do it is another story, but the reminder at least makes me feel organized.
Steps and time alone won’t get you near 7 days if the screen still lights up every time you move your wrist. Mine dropped about 15% in two days just sitting around with notifications off, so the drain is there regardless of what sensors you kill.
Mine’s been in a slim front-pocket wallet with a couple of cards for about six weeks and the left-behind alert has been inconsistent in a different way: it fires late when I walk away from the car, not the wallet. So I don’t think the card stack is the culprit there, it’s more about what the phone is doing at the time. Sandwiching it between plastic shouldn’t matter much since the signal isn’t optical, but a transit card with an antenna coil sitting right on top of it is the one combo I’d keep an eye on. Not saying that’s your problem, just the only thing in a wallet that seems like it could plausibly interact. The slow alert could also just be the phone deciding when to check, which is annoying but not really fixable on your end.
I bought a Wi-Fi water fountain two years ago and the app was half the reason I picked it. About eight months in they pushed an update that broke the schedule, and support basically told me to reinstall and hope. It still runs, but only on the default setting now, so the fancy part is gone while the pump keeps going. That told me the app is the fragile bit and the hardware outlives it. So for a feeder I’d want to see if I can set the portions on the unit itself without touching my phone. If the only way to change anything is through the app, that’s a pass for me.
