Unfortunately yes. They do put some models on sale occasionally so if you want one it can be worth waiting - I got mine at close on half RRP which made the cost somewhat more palatable.

I ended up getting a Fenix 6s about a year and a half ago and I think it’s about as close to a Pebble successor as things get these days. I get a comfortable week out of the battery, and a responsive e-ink screen with the basics covered plus a few more fitness related things (and a party trick of topo maps) the Pebble didn’t have. I don’t feel like it has quite the community support that Pebble had in terms of software (or the enabling thereof from Garmin), so it’s not 100% the same but it’s been working well for me so far.

Fossil didn’t particularly impress me with their smartwatches, so a sales decrease doesn’t surprise me. I had a Skagen Falster 2 (a Fossil by another name) for a bit and it was annoyingly slow with not enough battery to leave the screen on, and eventually did the Fossil thing of the time where the back falls off the watch. I replaced that with a Fossil hybrid HR as I was chasing something more like the Pebble Time Round I liked before its battery lost usable capacity. I liked the concept and battery life of the hybrid but it had a horribly slow interface (galling to me since Pebble had shown you could do much better with e-ink), the e-ink screen ended up fading, it kept getting moisture inside the face, and as a last straw Fossil decided to be a dick and remove the left handed button mode.

You don’t necessarily have to have ejector seats - WW2 era bombers for example relied on the crew making their way to a hatch to bail out. Despite being a considerably lower chance of survival than modern systems (not helped by various positions having to crawl through narrow spaces to escape and/or find and put on their parachutes due to not having space to wear them during normal operation) the option of bailing out saved a large amount of people.

Technically speaking, no one outside of college demonstration engines are burning hydrogen

Toyota has made various working prototype hydrogen combustion engines, so it’s not impossible these could end up in production in the nearish future (they’ve done a hydrogen version of at least the GR Yaris/Corolla engine, a V6, and a V8).

I’d consider it a normal phrase and I’m Australian, so it’s not just a British thing.

Sounds like the sort of thing that is liable to turn into a modern retelling of The Loaded Dog.

GPS tech is definitely decades old, I could dig out a couple of handheld units I have in a box that would qualify for that distinction (circa 2000) and those were a few models into what was available to consumers let alone unis and governments.

Using that specific application for decades is more of a stretch, but technically possible if you count all Mapfactor navigation and they first used it on a PC (released 2002 apparently). Even on mobile devices it’s not that far off qualifying as possible though (released 2007 on Windows CE so 16 years).

Probably should take into account people with learning disabilities and processing disorders

As an option, definitely. As a default though I too would prefer the standard spoken form if the time is going to be spoken rather than displayed. It’s a bit like how simplified wikipedia is a good idea but I prefer regular English to be the default version.

Similarly putting stuff in the upper right is just asshole design for those of us who are left handed, unfortunately that’s relatively common.

Curiosity I guess, it’s not like I’ve done it often.

If you take the bag right out of the box it tends to be difficult to put back into the box, having seemingly become larger like the rabbit in the OP picture.

OP is either worried about ghosts or the serial killer(s) whom he nicked a few bodies from.

The pretty important context to this video is that the boy in question had allegedly just broken into the mayor’s house and he was waiting for the police (see here for a news article about the event).

Thanks for the idea, looks like converting them might open up some more options for viewing. I’m only intending to view already created maps rather than creating data so I don’t need GIS suite functionality once I get the maps on the phone (really only need geolocation, marker points etc are nice but not necessary), viewing as an OsmAnd layer sounds promising if I could get that to work easily for multiple files.

That’s a bit rich coming from the people who call a potato a ground apple.

What do you mean electric motors have no transmissions?

They do though, it’s just that most are single speed reduction boxes (unless you’ve got a Taycan).

Why argue only about the transmission? Why not have cars with manual ignition?

Because on an enjoyment:effort scale a manual transmission ranks a lot higher than stuff like hand starting, manual ignition timing or manual chokes.

If you dislike machines making your life easier, stop driving all together.

Do you also tell photographers to quit photography if they use manual mode to control their camera, or woodworkers to only use powered tools instead of hand tools? Sometimes having that bit more of a connection to or control over what you’re doing is just more engaging or more enjoyable - maybe you don’t care about that when driving but there’s a lot of people who do.

There are obviously exceptions, hence why I said often instead of always. Think larger scale and/or involving fixed objects and cardinal directions tend to be logical, for example:

• Install the equipment in the western plant room.

• Please set up the workstation near the power point on the western wall of the room.

• Come in via Foo Rd, when you get to the intersection with Bar Rd turn west.

• My desk is in the south western corner of the office.

• Walk west along the ridge from the carpark, then once you reach the giant boulder take the northern spur down to the river.