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Comment by djbusby | Hacker News Reader

First link would be ad-filled, SEO gamed bullshit.

Screw those people for trying to monetize something you’re expecting to use for free. Your phone and computer have the capability to do timers. Why are you googling a timer with this attitude in the first place?

> Your [...] computer has the capability to do timers

Source? At least on macOS, i'm not aware of any built in timer or stopwatch.

  sleep 300; tput bel

or even

  timer() { sleep $1 ; i=$2; until [ $i -eq 0 ]; do tput bel; sleep 1; i=$((i-1)); done }
  timer 300 10

https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/07/macos-ventura-clock-timers/

Basically the first page of any Google search page is ads now.

If I want a quick 5 minute timer, it’s just a “Hey Siri” away. Navigating to Google to type a query is strictly inferior.

Yup, something undesirable that will probably still work while Google Timer is "down."

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