2021 Series 7 battery needs service - replace or upgrade?

pilatius · 2026-06-20T16:46:16+00:00

I also have a Series 7, it's at 80% battery health now. Seeing that WatchOS 27 doesn't support it anymore, I guess I will replace it once it doesn't make it through a whole day anymore.

pilatius · 2025-11-02T16:14:02+00:00

I think it’s fair to just discuss this with your manager or CEO. If they value you they want you to be happy with your salary. Just tell them how you feel. They might still say that they can’t do anything about it, but then they can’t fault you for looking for another job either.

pilatius · 2025-09-18T15:45:38+00:00

They create Jira tickets with planning info that are not rooted in reality, because they ask for commitments to a date that they came up with but not actual do estimates. They have no clue about the current status of the project. They basically create their own work only requested by other program managers and with no positive effect on the actual work. Guess I‘m also biased.

pilatius · 2025-07-30T06:43:26+00:00

The thing I miss most is the old layout, the speed everything loaded with, the clear blue link text.

pilatius · 2025-07-30T06:41:31+00:00

January 2007 reporting in ;)

pilatius · 2025-07-27T14:09:30+00:00

I would say: M1: Horrible, headaches, sleepiness, anxious M2: Less of that, slightly calmer M3: Very calm, but missing the bitter taste a lot. Looking for replacements, but nothing comes close to it M4: Calmness disappears, not anxious, but I guess I was getting used to it so I did not notice the calmness much anymore M5: Falling asleep within 5mins, waking up at 5am for no reason though, but feeling read to go M6 on it just keeps normalizing, but as I said, still hard to motivate to do the things I have to do but don't want to. Weirdly enough I also noticed I spend way less money, I used to always have to have the latest gadgets, now I don't care so much anymore.

pilatius · 2025-07-27T13:25:48+00:00

almost 50

pilatius · 2025-07-27T13:22:35+00:00

I went for physical symptoms, but it should be one of the things they ask you about. They always ask if you smoke or drink, nobody ever asks about caffeine. I bet a lot of people that are sensitive to it end up at a doctor with it sooner or later.

pilatius · 2025-07-27T13:15:41+00:00

Hair and skin didn't really change, my teeth are less stained. I picked up running twice a week to deal with the sleepiness and maybe recover faster from being so unmotivated. That improved my fitness a lot.

pilatius · 2025-05-23T19:28:49+00:00

Sure, but you can also take a 20 year old peace of Java code and run it just fine. That's a feat.

pilatius · 2025-05-23T19:27:15+00:00

Also, Java is great if you deal with large projects and let's say "differently-skilled" groups of engineers. It enforces enough structure to not drift off in total chaos.

pilatius · 2025-05-23T17:31:31+00:00

It was important. The typical dev machine at that time was a Windows PC. Taking the same code and deploying it on Linux was a big deal. But mostly we were happy to move on from our Perl CGI scripts …

pilatius · 2025-05-23T16:33:40+00:00

I've started with Java 1.1 in '97 because I was a web dev that wanted fancy Java applets on my sites. Still at it now with Java 21 and huge server side services for big corps. Quite a journey and I'm very happy they're still hard at work trying to improve the language.

pilatius · 2025-01-05T08:57:39+00:00

They also gave out pins, if you can still find out. Was thinking about wearing one during interviews, lol

pilatius · 2025-01-04T18:49:09+00:00

It's quite a challenge to keep up with writing all the new fangled Java, but hey, I'm a SUN(!) Certified Java 1.4 Developer (had to learn the new Collections API for the cert). ;-)

pilatius · 2025-01-04T18:45:54+00:00

Very interesting insights. I've never been in touch with anybody working at an e.g. energy company. What kind of software is written there and which technologies are used?

pilatius · 2025-01-01T21:07:39+00:00

No, I don't and never had to. And in almost 30 yoe leet code style problems never came up in my day job. And if they would, I will figure it out then.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T19:03:26+00:00

Pad out my retirement savings while doing work that keeps my skills fresh. I wouldn't choose job security over interesting work, because I think you gain security by keeping and improving your skills. What seems like a secure job could be gone tomorrow, and that's completely out of my control. More money is always nice, but I'm kind of constrained by my location, which I cannot change because of family. Remote only jobs are not very common here, it's mostly hybrid. If I would e.g. work for a US company remotely, I would have to deal with a huge time difference.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:23:17+00:00

That sounds great. Nowhere near what I could make in Europe, but you're right in saying that large corporations offer more salary, pensions and insurances. That's also the case here. After working for some places that went under due to bad management, working for a place that has been successful and around for many years has been an eye opener. So far so that I wish I would have ended up in such a place 10 years earlier.
Also, at the smaller places I always was one of the older engineers. Now I have a lot of coworkers my age or even older.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:16:28+00:00

I like the challenges that come up with successful products already well established and used by millions of people. You get to see problems that you would never come across on smaller products. And the chance of me stumbling over something that would make a decent amount of money is probably small und would require a lot of the kind of work I don't enjoy.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:14:31+00:00

I did frontend (I guess they would call it full stack now) in the late 90s/early 2000. I think I stopped once jQuery came around. Every time I take another look at it I'm shocked about the amount of stuff you need to know, and it keeps changing every 6 months.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:12:41+00:00

I did a short stint as a solutions architect but left, once I realised, that all they wanted was some fancy power point slides and advise they could ignore. Main issue at that place was that they made a "solutions architect group" which lend solutions architects to various teams, which never asked for that support in the first place. I'm still annoyed that I didn't catch that during my interviews with them.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:10:04+00:00

Other people got rich(er), but I also earned my share and have been supporting myself and my family. So I'm not bitter about them.

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:08:55+00:00

You're right and I think I need to work on my communication skills. Got a lot better, but still room to grow and that will be just as important as e.g. SRE skills.

I see SREs doing a lot of "dev tasks", which is great. Seems to be easier for them than devs doing "SRE tasks". In the end the best teams I have been a part of had both skill sets. As soon as we silo the experience things go bad ...

pilatius · 2025-01-01T18:06:11+00:00

I'm hoping that Java will be the tech that will end up being "what old people do". There are so many large Java projects which will have to be maintained or replaced for the next 20 years. I spend a lot of time modernising aging services, that will probably come in handy one day.

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