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darig··on Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (2011)
I love the G-Shock squares if you want to stay with casio. The solar charging one that syncs to atomic time automatically runs about $90 (Model: GWM5610-1). The battery powered, manually set time runs about $40 (Model: DW5600E-1V). They keep such good time, and the batteries last for over 5 years in most cases, and can swap out in a few minutes for a few bucks, that you'll have to decide if it's worth it.

I also like pretty much all Timex Ironman watches... T53151 is small like the F-91W and pretty cheap, usually under $25. The Transit series is more square and modern looking, the TW5M19300 runs under $40.

darig··on Gimp is 25 years old today
I've also been using GIMP since the 90s... but I'd say the overall experience has changed drastically and done so many times. I use a lot of Plug-ins, and somewhere in the mid 2000s the communication between them stabilized and sped up dramatically to the point that I all but ditched photoshop. Then I switched to an all mac shop, but GIMP's X11 interface on a mac was terrible, so I was back on photoshop. Then, fairly recently, GIMP switched to all native windows on mac, with tons of new windowing and tiling options that feels as responsive as photoshop, so I'm back to 100% GIMP.

I'm leaving out a ton of bug fixes and optimizations and new features over the years that were game changing to my processes. It's never stopped getting better. The only software I'd say has improved so much so consistently is OBS.

darig··on Linux on iPad
The title on the page is "Linux on iPad"
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