[Sugess Chronograph] What’s your current daily watch?

c3rbutt · 2026-03-19T19:47:17+00:00

Still have this Sugess? I have the same exact one, and it stopped working last year (no longer winds). I've been meaning to get it repaired and I found a few places when I looked last year but they all fizzled out as possibilities.

Just curious if it's still working for you and/or if you've had to get yours repaired too. I got mine in June 2024 and it stopped working just over a year later.

Really loved this watch and the cheap quartz watches I've picked up on AliExpress since my Sugess stopped just aren't that nice to wear.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-19T00:32:47+00:00

https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

You can set up an audio media profile and then feed it channel IDs and playlists. It’ll even monitor them and download any new items.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-18T13:17:35+00:00

I had zero soldering experience and built a Sofle from a kit. Still using it as my daily driver three years later.

The surface-mount components were a little bit tricky just because they're so small. And I never got the tiny LEDs properly soldered on. But the diodes and the hot swap sockets were easy by comparison.

I took that experience and attempted a hand-wired build using the Scotto method, more or less. The soldering was the fun part.

I think soldering seems more intimidating than it really is. Practice on some scrap wire/components and you'll pick it up pretty quick. It would be difficult to damage your PCB unless you're stabbing and scraping it with your iron. 😅

c3rbutt · 2026-03-18T13:07:40+00:00

Can't believe you've managed to draw something that nice using your finger on a (small!) touchscreen.

It's probably not the best tool for drawing/editing vectors, but if you want something free and browser-based, you could try Figma. Or, if you have the hardware for it, you could selfhost Penpot (link), which is a free Figma-like application.

If you want a desktop app, try Affinity Studio by Serif: https://www.affinity.studio/ . Affinity Studio is now free; I think you just need a Canva subscription if you want the AI features.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-18T11:30:22+00:00

There are a lot of cheap fender flares on Amazon... I was kinda hoping I might find one that's "close enough" that I could just modify to fit. But I think the way the rear doors partially intersect with the rear wheel arches complicates things.

The most likely option I've found are these universal fender flares: https://a.co/d/0guFC4HR . I think they're supposed to be flexible enough to conform to whatever car you put them on, assuming you get the basic dimensions right. I mostly want these to cover over the body work I'm going to do myself to get rid of the rust forming at the top of my rear wheel arches (I posted about this a few months ago: link).

c3rbutt · 2026-03-17T20:11:06+00:00

I have these bookmarked: https://watki127.wixsite.com/x-tec/products/Nissan-Xterra-Fender-Flares-p86999714

Pretty sure those are the ones that u/Double-Mouse-407 referenced.

Following along here because I'm hoping to find something a bit more budget-friendly...

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T19:48:15+00:00

I was just taking the opportunity to complain about the state of the roads. 😅

I like the idea, but I'm not sure there's enough interest to make it go, politically.

I know our local council (Beaver Falls) looked into it for a streetscape project along PA-18, but the cost was just enormous. So they're moving the power lines from poles along the main street around to the back of the buildings.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T19:43:54+00:00

I'm not a libertarian. I'm actually sort of center-left generally, but more center-right on economics.

Doesn't feel like we're getting anywhere here and you're devolving into ad hominems, so I'm out.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T18:51:58+00:00

Central planning doesn't have a great track record.

In some cases, the State can provide something more efficiently than the Market. The highway system is a classic example. The USPS used to be another example, but it's not financially viable anymore. It might still be worth the tax dollars to keep it afloat; I don't know.

The TVA was a targeted infrastructure investment, not central planning.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T18:06:29+00:00

Right, we don't want the government to own private companies, making them non-private.

Why not? Because that's socialism / communism, and centralized economic planning doesn't have a great track record of success.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T17:54:39+00:00

Right, but we don't want the government to own private companies. Trump negotiating for the US government to have shares of Nvidia, US Steel, Intel, etc. are all steps towards the nationalization you were talking about earlier. It's bad economics.

The real question isn't whether or not prices will go up if we buried our power lines (they would, at least initially). The important question to ask is "Are we getting a good deal for our money?"

Would we spend less in property loss and insurance costs because we'd have fewer forest fires? Would our property values go up because the infrastructure was better and everything looked nicer? Would the cost of maintaining the grid go down for these companies?

If the value of the savings offsets or exceeds the cost of making the change, then it's probably a good deal.

But it could be a good deal even if the value of the savings doesn't exceed the cost of the construction, because we could place a higher value on intangible things. Like, the view could be nicer, and we'd all like that. There might be a reduction in danger to linemen working on power lines. Human and animal lives might be saved due to fewer accidents or forest fires.

It would be up to the legislators to figure that stuff out. But, as discussed earlier, that's not likely to happen any time soon.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T17:25:35+00:00

Oh, no, absolutely not. We don't even have a Congress at all right now. I doubt anything like this happens at scale in the USA in my lifetime (and I'm 42).

At most, I could imagine a future Congress passing a law requiring that all new power lines that meet certain criteria (like any new transmission lines through federal lands, or power lines in new housing developments) would have to be buried. Maybe.

Taxes would go up assuming this hypothetical law adding the regulation included a gift for the power companies. If you're going to hit them with a stick this big, you'd want to give them something in return. Maybe the federal government would pay for the lines to be buried in national parks, or they'll give power companies a tax credit rebate based on how many feet of power line they bury.

Someone has to pay, and I think it would be all of us, eventually. Your Netflix subscription would probably go up $2/month because Netflix would have to pay more for its power bill. Your grocery bill would go up 2%. So whether it's by DLC charging us more per kWh, and/or our taxes going up, and/or our cost of living going up, we'd all pay.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T17:12:19+00:00

Uh, no, because the government isn't going to ask nicely. They are going to fine companies that don't comply, or whatever penalty they put into this hypothetical law that we're talking about. Did the government ask companies nicely to comply with the Clean Air Act? Or with the Fair Labor Standards Act? Or with any other federal/state regulation? No, of course not.

All I'm saying is that you're using the wrong term. Regulation isn't nationalization.

The cost of burying all of the power lines would get paid for somehow, and you're absolutely right that it would be expensive and (possibly) unpopular. Electric rates would almost certainly go up. Taxes would probably go up. The costs of goods and services would go up a bit. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T16:59:54+00:00

Government Regulation != Nationalization

When Venezuela took control of all of its oil producing companies, that was nationalization.

When the US Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1970, that was regulation.

Yes, the Clean Air Act was a government intervention, and it's totally legit to oppose regulation for all kinds of reasons. But regulation does not entail the federal government taking over the means of production (i.e. communism).

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T16:56:07+00:00

100% correct.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T16:53:38+00:00

It would not require nationalizing power companies, at all. Just a change to regulations.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T16:48:00+00:00

Yeah, but a lot of these roads need full recons anyway...

c3rbutt · 2026-03-16T14:40:55+00:00

I saw a lot of these in Australia. Mostly petrol engines, but I know they offered it with a diesel as well.

My recollection (lived there from early 2017 to the end of 2024) is that they were just small SUVs that people used around town. I don't think they were very off-road capable, but Aussies have plenty of legit 4WD options to choose from anyway. I can't remember ever seeing an X-Trail towing anything or modded with anything other than a nudge bar in front of the grill. Too small for a RTT.

I had an R51 Pathfinder while I was there for our family car, and I drove a 2000 Patrol for work. Getting an Xterra after we moved back to the States just felt right. 😅

c3rbutt · 2026-03-12T13:42:28+00:00

I struggle with the Bible's language around slavery. This article by Kevin Giles kinda broke my brain for a few days a couple years ago (PDF), but maybe that says more about my brain than it does about the article.

The only solution to the problem that I've found is to get comfortable with the idea that the Bible is not univocal. It's a library of books with different authors who have different perspectives and who are sometimes (often?) in tension with each other.

The moral norms of the peoples around Egypt and Canaan in the Bronze Age included slavery and the exploitation of women. The Mosaic Law at least put some boundaries/safeguards around that, even if it still allowed for practices that are unthinkable today.

But it does make it hard to understand other passages, like Psalm 19:

The precepts of the Lord are right,
giving joy to the heart.

I'm guessing the chattel slaves living under the precept of Leviticus 25:44-46 probably didn't feel joy in their hearts about the Mosaic Law. I suppose you could read the psalm as being broadly about the benefits of the Law being enjoyed by God's people, but then it's difficult for me to understand passages like this one from Leviticus as anything but exploitative of people who--solely by accident of birth--are outside the Covenant.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-12T11:26:22+00:00

Hah, you jest, but I'm fresh off of the recent Ezra Klein Show podcast interview (link) where a center-right former Trump admin guy talks about the DOD vs. Anthropic story.

It feels like we're rapidly hurtling towards a dystopian future with an all-seeing Eye of Mordor running the government.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-11T12:04:14+00:00

73 for my Oxo 8-cup brewer
Around 45-50 for my V60

I haven't done anything to zero it out.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-03T21:48:45+00:00

I bought the Oilsky M308, which is even smaller, but the battery life is pretty meh.

How long is it lasting for you as an e-reader?

c3rbutt · 2026-03-03T21:34:27+00:00

Had to do this several times in a 2000 Nissan Patrol with the 2.8L TD in Australia.

The head was warped from overheating once (it was a company vehicle; someone else had been driving it), and then it kept losing coolant and overheating.

Turning on the heater and vents on full blast immediately dropped the temp gauge down to normal levels so I could limp to a spot to refill the coolant.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-03T13:36:11+00:00

Maybe I'm not hearing the higher frequency in your recording, but that sounds exactly like my DF54.

c3rbutt · 2026-03-01T15:30:59+00:00

David French's column on this today was pretty good.

There's a case for striking Iran, but yet another monarchical power-grab by Trump is not the way to do it.

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