Samsung Galaxy 6 Classic in 47mm. I’ve had Wear OS watches since the early days, but this is the first one that didn’t involve any obvious compromises. Readability, responsiveness, performance, and battery life are all excellent.

For a long time, my favorite thing about it was that I could design and use my own personal taste in watchfaces. Unfortunately, Google broke that, when they switched watchface formats. The new one simply can’t do what the old one made possible.

Making Android and Wear less useful and more annoying seems to be the only thing Google does these days. And Microsoft is doing exactly the same things with Windows. I’ve begun the move to Linux, but I don’t see an equivalent option for smart watches, which is sad.

These days I use my smart watch primarily as a way of not missing notifications on my phone. It is convenient, but the fun has gone out of it.

I have two very nice non-smart watches that I would like to wear, but I do need alarms and timers. The sound on both watches is far too quiet for me to hear, even when there is very little ambient noise. That may be partly my aging hearing, but younger people assure me that they really are too quiet to be reliable.

My next move is likely to be switching to one of my non-smart watches and using my phone for alarms and timers. So basically, giving up and going back to what I was doing fifteen years ago. Thanks for all the forward progress, Google.

I certainly won’t argue with that.

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach
Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in C Sharp Minor by Ludwig van Beethoven
Hallellujah Chorus from The Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Fanfare-Rondeau from the First Suite de Symphonies (the Masterpiece Theater Theme) by Jean-Joseph Mouret
Clarinet Concerto in A Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel
The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi

A few centuries is not timeless, but it is an indication of long term endurance.

There was a change to the Obtanium set for IronFox a month or so back. I don’t remember the details, but I did have to reconfigure my settings for it. It has been working just fine since then.

Now all that needs is a 16 Petabyte drive to store the database. Well, that and a buyer who wants all of that on their machine.

I understand what it was intended to mean, but that isn’t how it has worked out in practice. Other people usually end up dealing with the negative consequences of whatever got broken.

I don’t think it’s even clever. Sociopathic behavior is mostly fairly obvious. It isn’t that they think to do things we never considered; it’s that we consider and reject those ideas because they are obviously harmful to others.

In the past, societies dealt with people like that by shunning, imprisoning, or executing them. Now a significant part of the public idolizes them and just wishes they could get away with the same crimes. That scares me more than than people like Marc and Elon. It’s hard to enforce laws against criminal behavior when a large part of the population thinks it’s all okay.

I don’t know how anyone ever thought Zuckerberg was a decent human being. He has been telling us otherwise, quite clearly, at every opportunity. That motto is just another piece of evidence.

Now I want to find, and burn down, that film school. For the good of humanity.

I think Synder is just following in the grand artistic tradition of Michael Bay.

What a remarkable face.

We still don’t have a working definition of what “intelligence” means. That tells you everything you need to know about intelligence tests.

The Republican ideals died out in the early 80’s. What we have now is the pure sociopathy of a movement without any ideals. It doesn’t really think, it just feels, and most of what it feels is fear and anger.

It made me happy to see people talking about Kuhn in this thread. The term “paradigm shift” has been appropriated by marketers and grifters, but it still has a useful meaning in its original context.

I understand where you’re all coming from, but that dog is a husky. They play the long game. 😀

Also, my large dogs think having a cat try to shred them is gentle play. They often act like the cat got them good, just to be fair. I had a 90 pound shepherd mix who would fake getting pulled across the room by our 3 pound kitten while playing tug with a little rope. That kitten thought it was the mightiest creature alive, while it was growing up.

They all look happy. You must be doing this right.

My concern is not that I will suffer from inferior production of code by not using AI. It’s that I will suffer from upper management dictating what tools should be used, without any understanding of the issues or consequences.

To some extent this exists. You can attach a Meshtastic radio with GPS (Seeed T-1000E, for intance) to anything you want. Then you can request the location of that radio. If it is accessible through the mesh, you can find out where it is. The problems are going to be coverage and battery life, but it is possible.

<satire>
“The Supreme Court ha declared that the only people allowed to vote in the next US election are six members of the American Nazi party from a small town in rural Mississippi. Chief Justice Roberts insisted that this was not a political decision.”
</satire>

Keep in mind that Pie Day comes twice each year: 3/14 and 7/22. 22/7 is the most common approximation of Pi.

I think my favorite pie is the Duo Silk made by a local restaurant that specializes in pie. It has a layer of French silk above a layer of peanut butter silk. And the top is covered with chocolate shavings and miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It’s at least a week’s worth of desert calories in one serving, but occasionally worth it.