On my 15th work anniversary at my current employer, I was awarded a Blue Angel edition Citizen Skyhawk watch. It's got an EcoDrive invisible solar cell under the watch face. Never hard to recharge it. Never lost a minute. Never worn a watch since I was 18 (I kept loosing them) but nowadays feel like I'm missing something if I dont have that watch when I go out.

The Apple Watch thing is kinda dreadful in design but that's subjective.

The real let down is the charging thing. I long ago ran out of power outlets around my bed and there's no way I'd have another dangling wire on the table.

At the very least, it needs an inline charger to share the same iPhone wire. Serialized or parallel. Or a dual function charge pod.

Since this thing required an iPhone, there's no point in requiring a different charger.

Proud is the opposite of ashamed. That's why they put emphasis on proud.

A social network is only social if it lets people in.

Stage artists where also subjected to the rule. Hence, cEven Key (yes, that's how it's spelt) of Skinny Puppy fame was forced to change his FB account back to his Kevin Crompton causing a very public backslash in his follower's community (incl. myself) where a good number of fans changed their FB name to cEven Key in protest and support.

Eventually FB backtracked and he was able to resume using his stage name (which he has for 30+ years now). But others are still stuck in the bureaucracy of getting their name fixed.

cEven Key was one of many who ended up on ELLO.

Actually I can relate. Got my fiancee off Windows and into Ubuntu (latest stable at the time). Initial install was a nightmare to get a bootable installer but once the hurdle gone, installed just fine. Then it was the carrousel of packages, getting het what she needed. Mandarin music player, OpenOffice (the easiest one to get IMO) and other things so she could enjoy a virus-free setup. It just meant days of screwing with a system she just wanted to USE. Not build.

She eventually got a Mac Mini because of house influence. She's been quite happy with it so far. Her last gripe is her Android phone not satisfying. I'm trying not to push her but... this is also an iOS house...

Enters Robonaut.

Oh come on! There are only 6 hundred distributions.

X2

Pebble won that race. unfortunately lacks the marketing power of Apple and thus, they will become moot in not so long. Sad, because they already do what Apple's watch promises. Right down to SDK.

Can't be as bad as Apple's.

I'm normally in line with what Apple produces (and potentialy biased too) but their watch is a total let down. Pebble has been doing this for long.

Actually, current numbers indicate this is one of the most peaceful era of humans.

Until fresh water runs out.

The idea is that in times of crisis, communications typically break down with over-flooded infrastructures.

This enables quick low-threshold OK-notification that propagate your status without you having to load an entire journal history on login nor requiring potentially more expensive (bandwidth-wise) form of communications like emails.

Shhh... shhh... let him do his thing. He likes buying pre-made block components and assemble them into a tin box using a free open source software so he can but never will change.

If that's the level of accomplishment one looks for, let them have it.