I've been thinking about getting a normal watch - funnily, perhaps because a video streaming shat an Apple watch on me, but just because I'd like to tell the time easily and tell myself "okay, time to stop reading slashdot and do groceries/mopping/anything that is useful in real life and will improve my well being and those of others".

I would like dirt cheap (as in 10 euros), and LCD based (monochrome unlit) and think it would be nifty if it drew pixelated handles! a few options maybe : pixelated handles, pixelated handles without the seconds, digital display (perhaps 12PM/24 hours option though I don't really need it). No need for the date as it's on phone and computer (or gasp, remember newspaper?)
I liked how the Windows 3.0 and 3.1 clock looked back then, and you could choose "analog" or "digital" graphics.

I vaguely remember having a watch many years ago but it didn't last long : a handle fell off and blocked the other handle! and I also hate the ticking. Get it marketers : I'm in the market for a (small) smartwatch that displays on like a truncated 64x64 resolution, 1bit monochrome and is not actually smart.

Well no, a thyme infusion with honey will do it, using a tea ball (or alternatively, just the thyme if you don't have honey or just honey if you don't have the thyme)
I had to look up what cough drops are, it seems to be candy. Well that's charming I guess and I'm harping on a technicality, but it's more expensive and I don't eat candy.

Yeah I can't wait to come to America, work two jobs with disjointed hours and far away from each other, earn $20k a year and spend $10k a year to get some basic coverage and still receive these kind of bills. Yea, great deal.

Collecting data on the population to know who is jewish, gay, communist etc. and sorting it on electromechanical machines was how the nazis committed their mass genocide.

I didn't remember that. I'm sure it helps but I wanted to make a point you might find yourself with hardware support and bootloader issues with some x86 hardware though I might be overly cautious, we'll see what gives.

I think some sort of UEFI support is needed, and it's coming on ARMv8 servers (or already exist in that realm)
Note that Intel made unpopular x86 smartphone chips with PowerVR GPU that are/were meant to run Android and thus I believe you'd have the same problem as with any other smartphone, even though it does have x86. Likewise Xbox (first and third models) are x86 but locked down.

But the biggest problem is the software defined radio (if one is used or is integrated to the main chip), it has to be locked down else it will disturb cell networks or worse (security breach?).
You could imagine being able to change the OS, but if you're not using a supported one then the SDR is locked down and you can't use cell network/wifi/etc.
Or the SDR has to be its own little island with CPU, storage and highly secured special purpose OS that talks to the phone over a virtual air gap.

Couldn't they leave the crapware and drivers alone and still provide critical security updates we expect and need on computers since well, the Windows XP SP2 days?
Instead of updating the whole OS, Google would better provide say monthly security fixes for three years on the Android 4.4 OS, the 5.0 OS, the 5.1 OS etc.

This is not going to end well, I guess fragmentation hampers malware somewhat but what if some powerful piece of malware manages to get installed on say 10 million of Android computer phones and starts doing something really nasty?

Can it be done that way?
while true; do killall -9 crappy_app_process; sleep 5; done

CTRL-ALT-BKSP is enabled in Linux Mint at least, and in a nice way : you go to "preferences", and "'software run on start up" (whatever it's called) where there is an entry that you can check or uncheck.

The entry's contents is this :
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

The worst command is rm .*, because it's one you might want to run on purpose. And it does work if you're logged in as the regular user!

Wow, the qwerty layout is evil.
To get a /, I need to press shift ; the key is the second-from-right one from shift, not first one ; enter/return key is of the rotated L variety (it's possible to press * and enter in one mistaken movement, though)

Never knew half the data disasters on the planet were caused by a one-keypress / next to a return key lol.

I have installed systems where the user name, user password, host name and root password were all the same.

I have seen users running a file manager as root (technically, it's a gksudo) which I found offensive, but well they got the read/write rights on the disk they needed to read from and write to.

Yet it's very easy to enable the root account and disable sudo (by kicking everyone out of the sudoers), and install openssh-server. Here's it, a powerful and dead easy multi-user machine.