Not a newt

The politicians debating online abuse claim to mean well.

Your reply to the above comment is a bit caustic. Here’s my take on your argument that explains your position in a rational way:

The bomb-proof and repair free nature of the Rolex comes into play in situations where replacement parts are not readily available. Consider an astronaut on a trip to Mars: they are out in space for months, in a ship where both space and weight are at a premium. A disposable time piece may be cheap on Earth, but without the means to replace it, it becomes a liability.

Similarly, someone on an exploration to a remote region - let’s say a member of the yearly British Antarctic Survey expedition - will not be able to replace a broken timepiece until they return at the end of the season. Not everyone needs a reliable time piece, but those who do - such as medics measuring a patient’s heart rate with a stethoscope - might go for something that has a lower failure rate.

Sure, a $5 timepiece is probably enough for most people, and wearing a Rolex as a status symbol is dumb, but that’s not the only use case for them.

Shrimp platters.

two thumbs up = 100

So how would you distinguish this from 55?

This is my brain liking self-documenting strings, instead of having to remember which symbol means what. I’m using a communications platform, not playing nethack.

Missed an opportunity to use IAM style principals, e.g. user:[name]@[instance] and comm:[name]@[instance].

Not disagreeing on that, my comment was more about configuration options. After 4.4 they started removing so much QoL stuff under the excuse of simplicity: the indicator LED, several volume controls, the headphone jack, made gesture controls default, etc.

Agreed. 4.4 was the pinnacle of user-configurable Android. after that they started removing features and locking things down.

They just switch the locale to Australia.

Unless you do Excel, then they want you to work the sheets.