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...whomever started the planned obsolescence thing really needs to be court obligated to be slapped by a robotic slice of gravy ham [and if they are dead we should raise their bones and make that device, a ham slapping a skeleton, a perpetual sculpture outside of apple headquarters]...

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Didn’t you hear? Tom Cook announced a Perpetual Ham-Slapping feature would be rolling out with the new iPhone 16.

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...if that comes in a maple flavored i'm buying two...

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Jan 22Liked by Sam Robinson

I think you can send it into Garmin for repair, Sam!

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What?? Are you telling me I could have just done a simple google search to figure this out?? ;p At this point though, I think I've got to try to fix it myself.

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I understand - I went through this with my second Roomba. RIP.

I very much enjoyed this essay on thoughtfulness, mindfulness, interconnectedness. All good things and the same thing.

Sometimes, it's just better to just send the damned thing off to an expert/landfill.

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The wabi-sabi of running gear... I tend to get attached to my running shoes, liking them better as they deteriorate from use (and I take a memorial retirement photo of each pair before discarding).

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That’s great. I need to do more to memorialize shoes. Where do you keep the retirement photos, Jeff? Just on the phone or in a special place?

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Well, capture is the easy part... right now they're just piled away on the computer with all my other photos. At some notional/aspirational point in the future, when I have all those photos organized, I'll have a "shoes I've known" gallery on my website (along with a trails gallery, a watches/packs/poles gallery, etc.).

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I love the idea of a “shoes I’ve known” gallery.

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Great essay. My husband now is trying to find a place to repair his analog watch, which he's worn for a couple of decades, and it's not easy, so it sits on his desk in the limbo of disrepair. Me, I love my Garmin Fenix 7 for so many things that it measures. Will I repair it when a new, better version beckons? No, I admit I'll put it in our e-waste pile.

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It’s so hard. Would that one could just swap out batteries like the watches of yore.

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