EugeneNine

Through headset cable routing - my bike is from 1996, doesn't have this

Trail casing tires on eMTBs - Mine isn't electric

Bentonville glazing - never been there, probably can't afford to anyway

Obsessing over Strava - deleted my account when they went all Apple and started suing everyone

Low stack height geometry - my old bike has a quill stem

Rude trail users - I try to say high to people but they usually pass me so fast they don't notice.

There are plenty of smart-ish watches that aren't running a full phone OS also, Garmin's watches for example. You can sync them with tools like gadgetbridge

https://viking-gps.github.io/

exiftool is one I use to tag my images and videos with my name and sort them. jq is another that does a quick export from json

Harder to backup and synchronize also

I usually use viking https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/

For anyone else wondering, you can export all your Garmin data .Use the "Export All Garmin Data Using Account Management Center" option here https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=W1TvTPW8JZ6LfJSfK512Q8 The output is json files so you can use any json editor or anything that can import json. I use a little tool called JQ https://jqlang.org/ to extract just things I need. Then I can analyze in whatever tool I want such as a spreadsheet

If you read the announcement from them you will see that they are not moving previously free features to paid, all of the previously free features are still free, they are adding some new paid features.

I have an eTrex Legend HCx from around the same time. Actually had two but lost one on a trail a couple years ago. The other one the screw for the handelbar mount was ripped out so I had to drill through and put in a bolt though. I have replaced it with a watch, last year ago I bought an instinct 2s solar. It has 19 days of battery life and I top it off when I shower. So I can shower on sunday, skip shower on monday then to do a quick MTB ride tuesday evening and it still has enough battery life to keep going until I shower after the ride.

I was going to say imagemagick as well. You make a simple script to do what you need such as the crop and connecting together then set it up as a right click action in dolphin or whatever file manager your using.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/

Everyone is feeling the squeeze. For the last couple years employer have been reducing staff and expecting those remaining to pick up the extra work while not increasing compensation. Then the employers report record profits and the news tells how great the economy is doing while we are all struggling.