EVs have no gears, they don’t need this stuff. Or they have a manual simulation.

It’s called a 3D printer.

What do you mean? Dacia Spring exists and it starts at £15k. That’s pretty much a budget petrol car price.

What’s a PRNDL?

Our eggs are too good for the US anyway: not bleached and can be safely eaten raw.

It’s YOUR country. If you can’t fix it, then you’re complicit.

No.

Even cheap SD cards are larger these days. The smallest SSD you can buy in the UK right now is 250GB.

To be able to point at that easily.

Lemmy is full of tankies. It’s pretty much their personal echo chamber at this point.

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I’m talking about regular smart/fitness/sport watches: VivoActive, Venu, Forerunner, Fenix, etc. None of them are dive watches, but they all have the exact same hardware feature set. Battery size and screen resolution are dictated by the watch size and apart from physical dimensions they all are exactly the same.

P.S. My very personal issue is with Forerunner series. 265 has the screen size I want, but 965 has additional MTB sports I need. Sports and watch size are the only fucking difference! Even if I don’t care about the price, I can’t have the watch I want, because Garmin decided to show me a middle finger.

As for apps, Garmin store has some useful apps, which show additional data, and additional sport types, etc, but Garmin shop itself is a bloody cancer. If you want to buy something, most developers opt for a separate PayPal payment or bank transfer, then you need to wait for them to mail you a licence, etc. It’s just a cumbersome piece of shit, which leaves you open to scams, etc.

one model for everything would be quite expensive though given all the extra sensors, better displays, solar charging and stuff the higher end ones have yeah?

That’s the problem with Garmin - it won’t be more expensive. If we ignore optional gimmicks like solar charging, then there are no real hardware differences between VivoActive 5 and Fenix 8 apart from the barometer, which was present in even cheaper VivoActive 3. Depth sensor, for example, is just a software feature of a barometer (you need to calculate depth and altitude differently from the same data).

Garmin is selling software features packaged as different hardware SKUs and charging up to 4x more depending on a feature set. Their product range is extremely large with multiple product families divided into multiple physical products, which all are essentially the same piece of hardware. And today their range is actually more streamlined than it was before.

This is a stark contrast to Apple, for example, where you have one bloody watch and that’s it. Yes, you have different physical sizes to fit different people, you have different materials and finishes to choose from, but when you’re buying an iWatch you’re getting all the features no matter which screen size and arm band you choose.

Garmin should realistically only have two lines of watches - base model which has everything Fenix 8 has for £250-300 to compete with iWatch and advanced model with solar and other gimmicks no one cares about for £650-800 to compete with iWatch Ultra. That’s all.

Garmin is not trying to compete, but Apple and Samsung came and took the market by storm.

I don’t want them to add anything, I want them to switch from making a thousand models and selling software features as hardware revisions to making one model which can go do everything and to have a proper app store instead of a joke they have right now.

They’re stuck with 1990-s mentality and refuse to change, sadly.

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You will once the prices will go up to offset losses to theft. The theft doesn’t hit the chains, it hits your pocket.

A simpler name would require a trademark. Go on, try to trademark a nice name. Or better yet - hundreds of them each year.

Randomly looking numbers and characters cannot be trademarked (one of the good examples was Intel’s move from x86 naming to Celeron and Pentium as they couldn’t prevent others calling their CPUs 486), so everyone can use them freely.