LKC
Western Ohio near St.Mary's. I didn't get Mars nor Venus even though they were nearby. I tunnel visioned on the eclipse itself.
I came across the project before but they don't have biometric stats that I was looking for.
My Hybrid's screen died under 9 months of use. The e-ink screen started to fade. Not sure if it was from sun light or maybe knocked around.
I haven't had the Garmin for as long yet but it's nice enough to use outdoors.
I don't know of any e-ink displays outside of Fossil but give Garmin a try. I use the Vivoactive 4 and get a week+ of battery.
I went from Pebble > Fossil > Garmin.
May not qualify as "simple" versus a VM, but you can try using chroot environment. You essentially run minimal Ubuntu environment from a folder that can be a newer or old version of the host OS.
Another tip is the leveling system is busted as hell. For instance, health increases by a rate in relation to your endurance level. If you don't level up endurance early, your character can be fragile later on.
You don't have to max out endurance, just keep it maintained.
Basically sweeps errors under rug.
No error handling and go again.