Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Pro-tip: it's only illegal if you get caught

also, if you do fuck it up and have a bubble of air in there you can say "oh, that's intentional, it adds a spirit level feature!"

Here's a good demonstration of what I know of as a "hydro mod" for a watch

It consists of filling a watch with an oil to give you a wider viewing angle underwater (due to refractive index stuff that I don't really know enough about optics to understand) and increased water resistance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu4T4Cy4eKQ

It's pretty cool, and not too difficult to do

oh my god

the suzuki mighty boy

it's a kei-sized ute

AND THEY ACTUALLY CALLED IT THE MIGHTY BOY

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

Watch news: Baselworld has been "postponed"

to next year, so cancelled

admittedly the only "fitness" I'm interested in is fitness pizza in me mouth but neat features are neat

cool new G-SHOCK release, a proper fitness tracking watch thingy!

The GBD-H1000 series

https://world.g-shock.com/asia-mea/en/products/g-squad/gbd-h1000/

Has an optical heartbeat sensor, GPS/GLONASS/QZSS, altitude, barometric pressure, and compass

Also, most interestingly, solar assisted charging! The timekeeping and notification features will keep running just on solar, the GPS and heart tracking needs more juice so topping up the battery with the charger is advised after using that

walking into a hospital with green mud on my face

"the doctors said I should wear a facema... oh, yeah, that makes more sense"

In watch news Watches and Wonders Geneva (formerly SIHH) has been cancelled, joining Swatch Group's Time to Move and the Grand Seiko Summit in events that have been cancelled this year

sharknado but reshot with all blahaj..es? blahajar? ikea sharky friends

I'm beginning to think I may have to enlarge the doors on the hedgehog cafe

It's long been said that your phone has more computing power than the computers on apollo 11 which went to the moon

today it's more accurate to say that your phone charger has more computing power than the computers on apollo 11 which went to the moon

https://forrestheller.com/Apollo-11-Computer-vs-USB-C-chargers.html

but soff what robot yonder @mavica is

yeah, I have no idea where that's going but it's been in my brain and it must get out

"but it could murder all of us!"

yeah, so could your kids but we generally don't imprison them and hold knives to their throats and that usually works out fine

seriously, just don't be a prick to AI and it'll be okay

A lot of the strategies about "keeping humanity safe from artificial intelligence" revolve around how humans can contain the AI and shut it off if it's deemed convenient

Maybe, y'know, don't lock it in a box and put a gun to its head so it has to act in self defence? That'd probably be a better idea?

I know if I woke up chained up and with someone ready to kill me I'd be pretty pissed off

are we doing food discourse?

jam or clotted cream on first on a scone?

second discourse; how do you pronounce scone?

During the floods some dude was messing around in this little one-person boat, 'course, this being england he got a bit chilly

He had the brilliant idea of putting a little gas heater at the front to keep his feet warm

sadly, it was a plastic boat, heater melted the plastic and the little boat sank

Just goes to show, you can't have your kayak and heat it

oh you have got to be shitting me

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cwandt/solid-state-watch/description