I currently have a $45 Armitron smartwatch. The nicest thing is that I get to choose the watchface, honestly. Though the built-in pedometer (step counter) and using it to control my music are also nice. (It also would allow me to answer calls without touching the phone, if it were connected to a phone - but as it is connected to my tablet that's not going to work.)

Surprisingly, neither this watch nor its predecessor will accurately track my sleep. I tend to fold my hands on my chest, and presumably the motions induced by my breathing and/or heartbeat convince it I'm still awake. I've checked the logs a few times and when I'm reading (on said tablet) it often thinks I'm asleep as I won't move my left hand at all. But when I'm actually asleep, nada.

The mail client in Opera 7-12 (known as M2) included an RSS reader. When the founder decided he didn't like where the current owners were taking Opera, ne decided to reimplement as much of it as he could in a Chromium-based browser under the name Vivaldi. So yes, Vivaldi has a mail and RSS client built in as well as showing an icon in the address bar if a page lists that it has RSS feeds available.

As a mathematician, I have written programs that anyone without the background has no hope of understanding. Why would I need to make such a thing any harder to understand?

95% is only 19 in 20. That's far from demonstrating "unique". Also, anything metal on your person - change, keys, etc. - will effect your "signature". Maybe you could follow a person around the office on a particular day, but that person will probably appear different the next day.

Yeah, but I can leave one hand on the mouse ... and it's J, not K

I am not a touch typist. I did learn, but had no use for it. By the same token though, I am not a "hunt and peck" typist. I know exactly where the keys are, I just don't rest my fingers on the "home keys".

I can't imagine how a true touch typist deals with a mouse. Taking your hand off the home keys, moving the mouse, then locating the home keys again ... if you've learned to type with one hand and "point" with the other it is much simpler. Of course keyboard shortcuts - where available - are better than pointing devices, but not everything has a shortcut.

Mind you, these mobile device on-screen keyboards are a bit harder.

Admittedly I was ... 14? - and my Dad bought it for me, but I remember it fondly.

Dad worked for RCA, so we had an RCA VIP (see https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...). Came with 2K of RAM and a video resolution of 32x64 (yes, that's pixels). No software internally except a tiny 256-byte "monitor" that allowed you to input or display hex code.

Oh I know, all very primitive by today's standards. Yet at the time it was wonderful.

Back in 1986, I was working writing Commodore 64 programs for a Biology teacher at a Catholic high school. Technically, the C-64 was well past "outdated" by then, but the teacher didn't really want to have to learn new equipment. Admittedly finding an old Petspeed compiler to compile his old BASIC software helped immensely, but beyond that I was able to optimize his code to make it run multiple times faster. We had those machines doing things that made the IBM-supporters at the school board jealous.

Okay, AI run locally will require the latest and greatest hardware, or likewise video gaming and VR. Anything else is stuff we did just fine 10 years ago on then-current equipment and thus there is no reason we couldn't still do so.

Though then again, my phone isn't Android ...

I use my phone as a phone, not all that other stuff. (I have a tablet for that.) So it isn't strange for me to not use it for a week. Rebooting would actually mean using the battery more. And any limits on what time of day it does this? If it happens just before someone decides to call me (not likely obviously, but not impossible) or need to make one myself.

A better choice would be to reboot when it is charging, as you're unlikely to suddenly want it then. Or insure there's an option to disable this inconvenient feature.

I mean, really. I still use a flip phone - sort of. Mind you, flip phones that are 4-compatible come with some of that named junk. It has an app store, though using KaiOS. Not having an ASCII keyboard nor a touchscreen (and having a tiny screen to begin with) the apps are limited. Yes, it claims to have a web browser, though I really haven't been tempted to see how compatible it is. It does offer a media player, it even has a few games of sorts. Never looked for social media. Mind you, maps doesn't sound useful on this screen either, but turn-by-turn navigation might be okay.

But regardless, it certainly didn't cost $800

Their description was "Legendary", I didn't see him as quite that famous. Wouldn't consider either you named as "legendary" either - yet. Maybe Gaga will get there, eventually. I don't consider rap as singing (just rhythmic poetry) - or do you consider William Shatner a singer for all those times he did songs?

Remembered the name .,. Johnie Mathis.

Just a couple of days ago my tablet gave me a notification about a famous singer retiring and cancelling the rest of his tour dates - but of course left out the name in the notification. (Standard clickbait.) I clicked through and saw it was an 89-year-old guy whose name I d8d recognize but wasn't really that famous (and have since forgotten who it was).

But I'm sure you're familiar with Google searches - beneath the main results they have "People also asked ..." one of which was when did the singer die. As he was obviously still alive, I expanded that one to see what it said. It claimed he died 8 years ago following a stroke.

Unless you just classify them as " unGoogled Chromium", there are multiple users of both Opera and Vivaldi reporting this issue. Strangely, it doesn't effect me personally in either browser, but I suppose that just proves how inconsistent their test is.

Over the past couple of years at least, I've noticed our local Extension office (part of the state's Agriculture department) asking people to collect milkweed pods (and thus seeds) because monarch butterflies pupate on milkweed plants. As someone who grew up in rural America, it seemed like in the 70s farmers would have loved to kill all milkweed, so that's a bit of a change for them.