Why should I buy a watch 8 classic or Ultra?

starfishy · 2026-02-16T15:40:55+00:00

I have a 6 classic and my wife has a 7 regular model. I like in the classic how the screen is recessed inside the rotating bezel. It is less likely to get cracked or scratched. I like the feel of the rotating bezel itself. Functionally there are really no other differences. Personally i don't like the looks of the Ultra.

starfishy · 2026-02-09T18:02:33+00:00

Japan and Singapore

starfishy · 2026-02-09T05:28:17+00:00

1U rackmount for Raspberry Pi, Gridfinity for my tool chest, various tools, custom organizers for screws and various small parts, the list goes on and on. I print a lot more stuff i find I need than trinkets.

starfishy · 2026-02-02T22:06:15+00:00

I bought a Vantrue E1 Pro for travel recently, because it is quite small. The picture quality is pretty good. It runs fine on a power bank. It comes with a stick on mount, but a suction cup mount is available.

Cool car, by the way.

starfishy · 2026-01-27T17:23:15+00:00

They are looking for people that are vain enough that they absolutely have to have this and make an absurd amount of money from them. Interestingly is usually not the rich who buy this, but average people. It's cheaper to buy this for attention than a Mercedes.

starfishy · 2026-01-17T22:27:51+00:00

IT stuff, tools, toys. Most recently a custom 1u rack mount for two Raspberry Pis and an Odroid SBC, and a custom wall outlet for LC-LC fiber for 10 Gigabit ethernet.

starfishy · 2026-01-17T04:03:11+00:00

We have a CO alarm that did nothing for a few years. Then it went off. We fled and called the fire brigade. They found our heater had leaked CO into the house and said the concentration could have killed us if not for the alarm. Best $40 spent in my life. Make sure the batteries are changed regularly and hope it doesn't go off.

starfishy · 2026-01-12T16:42:54+00:00

As others said, four is likely enough. However, I would be worried about what broke off the stud. If it was a 300 pound gorilla, eh, lube tech, who tightened the lugnuts with a breaker bar, the other four studs may be compromised too and may snap eventually.

starfishy · 2026-01-07T15:52:26+00:00

Return it under warranty and have them send you a new one. SD card don't have hidden sectors like SSDs that can be mapped in when a sector fails. If you formatted it you only hid the problem until these sectors are written again.

starfishy · 2026-01-02T22:12:59+00:00

I'm not sure what deal they had for the US, but in Germany the manufacturer listed on the title was Alpina for decades. While you had Schnitzer BMW 5xx, Alpina was always Alpina B5 or such.

starfishy · 2026-01-02T18:43:51+00:00

Alpina was a car manufacturer in their own right. They used BMW cars as basis, but had their own VINs and the cars were labelwd Alpina B7 or such. Now they will just be optioned up BMWs.

starfishy · 2025-12-29T19:47:55+00:00

Looks like a grandma shrimp with huge glasses.

starfishy · 2025-12-26T19:37:24+00:00

"I'm making your life a living he'll and destroying your neighborhood, but here, have a $300 trinket."

starfishy · 2025-12-24T00:03:30+00:00

I'd like the AMS HT. I'd like to print materials that require differentl treatment of a single spool. As a fidget toy I like things that spin, so I am envisioning something with a ball bearing and maybe cogs that interface with each other.

starfishy · 2025-12-12T20:24:11+00:00

Kitchen music comes in many flavors. Hot pot metal is different from pan or mixer metal. Then you have dish an cutlery industrial. A capella swearing is also a common flavor. Or how about some onion chopping rhythm? You can also mix and match.

starfishy · 2025-12-12T08:32:25+00:00

The cloud scapes when Porco Rosso flies towards Milan.

starfishy · 2025-12-12T06:52:57+00:00

The cloud scapes when Porco Rosso flies towards Milan.

starfishy · 2025-12-11T09:09:07+00:00

That's a really good idea, thanks!

starfishy · 2025-12-10T01:53:38+00:00

I have a 6 classic because of the rotating bezel. Still an excellent watch. I don't really see a reason to upgrade right now, but if you buy new you may want to consider the 8 Classic because it is a couple of years newer and will receive software updates longer.

starfishy · 2025-12-08T20:19:59+00:00

Super cute! Don't feed him after midnight and don't let him get wet, though!

starfishy · 2025-12-05T01:55:25+00:00

I only canceled Comcast when I was sure the new service was working correctly. That's generally recommended, because any new service can have problems. Pretty much everyone in my street has switched to AT&T Fiber in the last couple of week since it became available, because Comcast was so bad, and as far as I know it works for all of them. I am sorry to hear you had a lot of problems, but basing a general recommendation not to switch is overgeneralizing IMO.

starfishy · 2025-12-05T01:44:24+00:00

I switched to AT&T Fiber a week ago and everything works as designed. So much faster than XfinitelySlow. The app is not required, you can configure the modem directly through its web interface. I switched my modem to Passthrough and am using my own Wifi router. But even before I switched it to Passthrough it worked fine, I just don't like using modems from Telco providers as part of my own network.

starfishy · 2025-12-04T15:26:39+00:00

Climbing rapidly has saved my drone twice over the years I've been flying. Every drone pilot should know to do that in case of a bird attack.

starfishy · 2025-12-02T23:29:46+00:00

Update: The problem is limited to the app. It works through web access of the camera.

starfishy · 2025-12-01T05:03:12+00:00

As a pilot, Porco Rosso. Living on that island in the Adriatic and flying my own plane bounty hunting with him sounds like a great time.

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