I'd personally love to have a Rolex just because of its craftsmanship. Because of this, I'm only drawn to the more subdued variants (all steel, plain bezel, plain dial in blue or black).
However, I have a couple of nice automatics, and don't want to expand my collection any further.
It is. "We are not in the watch business. We are in the luxury business" - former Rolex CEO.[1]
Rolex was originally a maker of working watches for rugged environments. Pilots and divers might wear one.
Today, the watch of choice for people who need accurate time is the cheap Casio G-Shock.
For about US$100, you can get solar power, WWV corrections, good waterproofing, and resistance to being banged on. It doesn't need any attention. It just works. Popular with military types.
My watch of choice remains the OG Casio F-91W, unchanged since its June 1989 introduction (35+ years!)[1] and still available today for the very nice price of $16.88[2]. They recently added Pink, Blue, Clear, Gold, White, Grey, and Green versions.
That's what seems newsworthy about this new movement, generally I would have said Rolex was just conspicuous consumption, you could get mechanically better / more interesting (and certainly more interesting-looking) watches for less, but that isn't their target market. So it's sort of heartwarming to see them making improvements that most of their customers won't notice.
I've been tracking this space for a while just out of annoyance that Tailscale offers ssh on the free tier, then not on the "starter" paid tier. Netbird is by far the best of the alternatives that I've tried.
Well, it's important to start with saying I didn't like it as much as Tailscale, but I liked it a lot more than any of the others I tried. The UI for their dashboard is very good and getting it up and running was pretty trouble free though the docs could be a little better.
Typically the left lever is the clutch, right lever is the front break, and your right foot has a lever for the rear break. Not sure what the setup was for the record breaking motorcycle though.
Note that the bike pictured does not have a front brake. So I’m guessing he went back to his starting position at some point to hit the brake pedal. He first probably just rolled off the throttle until the bike got to a much slower speed. “Probably” meaning, it’s what I would have done, having already decided that riding a motorcycle at 150mph in my underwear is a good idea.
No. Usually one of the brakes (I forget which) is actuated with a pedal, and one of the handle levers (what would be brakes on a bicycle) controls the clutch.
Not in relation to his body which is the concerning interaction. Though contact with a 150mph tire would have had similar if not the exact same consequences as a 300 mph tire.
It's typically called "meat crayon". No need to look it up... it is like when a crayon is dragged across a piece of paper, and leaves behind a line of like color.
It's actually kind of impressive how racists can take literally any issue, in this case a legal battle over encryption, and make it all about their own racism.
I got into the game when my older brother was sysadmin for a PDP-11. I had the opportunity to look at tall the collected reference work going back to the PDP-1.
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