which casio watch has lasted the longest?
I have a pile of Casio watches I've owned for long enough to determine which models last the longest.
What I've found out is that there are three things that determine a Casio's longevity. Strap, buttons and battery life, but not necessarily in the way you would think.
Most Casio watches either come with a PUR (polyurethane resin) strap or metal bracelet.
All PUR straps will crumble apart at some point. Even if the watch is kept in a box in a cool, dry place, that strap will naturally crumble apart over time, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's not a matter of if the strap will crumble apart but when.
Even the cheapest metal bracelet on a Casio will outlast a PUR strap, provided it's not worn too tightly. The only thing that can really go wrong is the clasp might start getting loose where it snaps shut. However, I've never had one outright break on me.
Buttons are a weird thing since they all depend on springs.
dodged a disaster with my sd memory cards
This could have ended up bad, but thankfully didn't.
I recently spotted a deal on SanDisk ImageMate SD memory cards in 512GB flavor at Walmart, and got two of them.
If you look at the prices 512GB cards are selling for, prices jump around quite a bit even for name brands. Doesn't matter if it's SanDisk, Samsung, Lexar, PNY or something else. That means if you see a deal, you go for it, so that's what I did.
But then I saw this post that someone bought one from Walmart and got screwed. Uh-oh. Now I'm nervous. Did I just get screwed too?
I had to find out.
tiling window manager users are insane
Being I mentioned i3 and Sway in my last post, I wanted to talk more about tiling window managers. People who use them are insane.
You may have heard that some Linux users are anti-mouse. True? Yes. I know I am. But then again, I've been anti-mouse ever since the Windows 3.1 days. More on that in a bit.
Modern tiling window managers hearken back to DESQview. Yeah, that shell from 40 years ago that BBS sysops used a lot because it gave you true multitasking in DOS. That was good. For vintage PC peoples, DESQview is the most tiling manager-esque thing you could use. So if you were ever wondering, "Can I tile (more or less) on a PC with just an 8086 CPU and DOS?" With DESQview you can.
But let's talk about the insanity, because that's the fun part.
the good thing about ram prices going up
Computer hardware prices are skyrocketing right now. There are three specific types of hardware getting the most attention for pricing. RAM, CPUs and SSDs.
There is a good thing about the prices going up as fast as they are.
"Good? How?"
Don't worry, I'll tell you.
Whenever there's a shortage of pretty much anything in high demand, the end result is the unavoidable glut that happens afterward. The process is this:
vhs sucks, don't do it
I recently watched one-and-a-half YouTube videos of some guy who decided hey, wouldn't it be cool if I put out some videos using nothing but broadcast quality video equipment of the '90s. Being I actually have a college degree in Video and Radio Production, I thought okay, sure, I'll watch this.
I got through the first video. Then I started watching another, got about halfway through it and... no. I had to stop.
I'll explain why I had to stop in a bit.
At the time I was going to college, television industry broadcast standards weren't exactly standards but rather a weird mix. Whatever you could afford dictated what you used.
There was a period when four video editing standards were being used all at the same time. The old-and-crusty (even back in the '90s) U-matic, S-VHS (Super VHS), Betacam, and non-linear digital editing with Avid.
When I got my degree, a cuts-only non-linear Avid video editing system was $30,000. If you wanted digital video effects a.k.a. DVE, that was $60,000. Not an exaggeration. A cuts-only system was at the college I attended that was brand new then, and students were VERY FORBIDDEN from touching it because staff was still learning how to use the damned thing.