Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@mavica I'm not sure if that would be any safer to be in or not

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@jk Gotta go old school for that sort of longevity

1000 years sounds possible

Depending on your definition of computer it's already been done with the Antikythera mechanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Put that in a vault and not at the bottom of the sea and I bet it'd still work

More useful would probably be a Babbage Analytical Engine built with modern materials

Also the 556 with a red second hand is part of the official collection now, rather than a super secret special order option

NEW SINN WATCHES! 🎉

U50 series, basically a new, smaller version of the U1 line, 41mm case size, water resistant to 50 bar, comes in plain steel, plain steel case with PVD and TEGEMENT bezel, or full PVD and TEGIMENT

1739 series, new line of "classic" watches, 39mm case size, three different dial options, sunburst silver with gold indices, sunburst black with rhodium indices, and a relief dial

High capacity microSD cards kinda freak me out

It's the storage density

Like, which eldritch abomination did you have to form a pact with to get all those ones and zeroes in such an itty bitty space

@mavica minidiscs were and continue to be super cool

I wish mp3 players took longer to get to market so minidiscs would have been more of a thing

there's also this which is a tide-time bezel but I've only ever seen that on this particular model of Sinn

Super cool though, even if it's of no use to me whatsoever

one that's missing is the Doxa-style ND bezel but that's incredibly niche and is basically just a count-up bezel with an extra bit around the edge for no decompression times

Ever wondered what the things around a watch face are for?

Mark from Long Island Watch made a good video on what all the different bezels do and how to use them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_BJ9LNYZOs

@envgen next year it will be revealed that hazel is, in fact, one of the trees at the front

@jk now you know why we were so concerned about getting all that tea

also we nicked an i from somewhere, we should probably give that back

@mavica you're cool of appearance

@lyliawisteria@weirder.earth that's not to mention all the other ways clocks help out

Navigation, for example. GPS for a start is just a bunch of clocks in a trenchcoat

Want to find your longitude at sea? Literally impossible without clocks

Most automation needs clocks too

Clocks: they're fucking awesome

@lyliawisteria@weirder.earth I'll jump in with a defence of the humble clock

They're great

They let you coordinate with other people, I mean if you're always on your own then maybe not but if you want to meet up with your mates at 6ish to go <activity> then clocks are what you want

Otherwise you have to be all "We'll meet up when the sun's about... thereish" and then it's cloudy and you either wait around for ages or they're waiting ages for you

@mavica same but watches

WHY MUST NICE PRETTY THINGS BE SO EXPENSIVE!?

@mavica lovely picture of the moon

@cypnk if you take "sword fighting" to mean "sword fighting against trees" then that's quite useful

chopping down trees would come in handy