It's long READMEs with 3 punchlines per paragraph for a project best described has "I found these 4 thingies, all of them had compromises, so I told Claude: merge the 4, no compromises!"

And every issue, every PR you open, about every small improvement or new feature, is the same.

Previously, most people would save their effort for things that actually mattered. Take away the effort and this is what you get.

Mostly useless, but was quite fun to write.

You should compare this with the F-91W that gets 7 years on the same battery, and hobbyist hardware mods that get years out of the same battery running ARM chips.

I'll take some solace in mine supporting lots more alarms (beep when school recess ends) and a bunch of geeky stuff like sunrise, moon phases, tides, and stuff.

So what does "the majority" mean? 51%? Because that's just saying those 51% occur during EU/UK afternoons and east cost mornings.

Because SQLite has 10k requirements that wouldn't even cross your mind to write down, but 80% of which are useful to you.

It'd be nice if something like this could be maintained long term. The US, UK and Germany signals have been working since the ~1960s.

I kinda wish the German transmitter had more range (like the US one does) but even the blog I linked to, you can see someone in the continental US who needs to hang their watch from their window blinds for syncing to work reliably.

I even looked into hacking my own transmitter (https://github.com/hzeller/txtempus) before giving up and just buying one of the models with bluetooth phone sync.

I had a weather station with an external antenna that could never sync, even during the night, even placed outside in the "best" side of the house on my neck of the EU.

A solar powered, low battery wristwatch that's never outside in the middle of the night will fare much worse.

It's interesting old school tech that works fine in the places where it does work.

For elsewhere, I guess synching through a phone is more practical. So far it works fine. I just hope it doesn't get deprecated (I do, unfortunately, have a feeling the Casio app will break before the radios stop transmitting).

Other people have the right to rest on Sundays too, so you force as many activities to shutdown as possible to make it so.

I don't really agree with the rule, by the way. Same thing as (in my country) all schools closing the exact same weeks which causes terrible holiday peaks on a bunch of other activities. Something we're also timidly abandoning, to great results (IMO) but which is not a popular change.

I would hope you realize that your good fortune (aka luck) does not generalize to an entire population.

Which is a great way to make sure they're not overused, which in my experience is better than underuse.

And no one gives a shit about the (18 million) Dutch, but we picked Bertha von Suttner.

But why are a Greek-American, and an - unknown to the majority of Europeans - Austrian in there?

How many counties more populous than Austria are unrepresented? Do all EU countries count, or just EZ? (Poland is not EZ, is represented, still complained)

It's an impossible list. Europeans don't necessarily have shared heroes, and if they did, some of these wouldn't be top 6.