AI+diots, not AL+diots. :D
I think Aldi's gets pretty widespread admiration. In contrast to AI, which seems to be almost universally reviled.
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Continental Grand Prix TR Review: Most of the legendary GP5000 performance for nearly half the price
Does anyone else have bad experience with Conti tires? Car, bicycle, motorcycle... I find they wear out quickly, have less traction, are more flat-prone, and have much weaker sidewalls than tires in the same market segment. I gave up on Conti on my bicycle when the sidewalls would start to disintegrate ~1500 miles. My car and motorcycle both came with Contis from the factory. Just terrible. I put Michelin Pilot Sport on the car and motorcycle, and Vittoria Rubino Pro on the daily commuter. Never looked back.
My second wife was ridiculously jealous. At first, she would go through my phone*, about which I was apathetic and allocated no thought since it initially seemed to assuage her jealousy. She would claim that I was tech-savvy enough to hide my tracks (true, but not worth my effort). But then I got a security-critical job, so her snooping became an instant nope. She flipped the fuck out. So many accusations over completely innocuous things such as a team happy hour (to which she was invited) or the quarterly dude's weekend my friends and I were doing for years. She repeatedly, actively tried to stop me from going to my dude's weekend. And while there, she demanded I send pics and video of attendees to make sure we weren't gangbanging other women (no, seriously, that was her concern). "No, honey, we're playing Mario Kart and sampling Scotch. Here's the proof."
*I later came to learn that this violation of privacy, even through I didn't care, is a huuuuuge red flag.
The irony here is that we had an ENM marriage. I was too busy to date anyone else, but she saw demons in everything. Turns out, that was projection on her part. She would demand terms for our ENM dynamic, which was fine by me since I was functionally monogamous. And then she would completely violate all of these terms. In marriage counseling and my individual efforts to save our marriage, I read everything science- and research-based that I could find (John Gottman's Love Lab FTW). Turned out that her attachment style is anxious-avoidant, and that shit burns down everything around it. As an example of how bad things were, our marriage counselor fired my wife. Yelled at her and threw her out of the session, told my wife that she was actively breaking the therapeutic process, and to never come back. Our counselor said that was the first time she ever lost her temper in over 20 years of practice.
After that marriage imploded, I invested heavily in my own therapeutic journey. It quickly became obvious that my wife had been dealing with lots of trauma. She would pull shit that would turn you white, and claim a dissociative state (which I believe was one of the few true things she ever said). And that dissociative behavior generally indicates deep trauma. What was that trauma? Never came to light.
I tend to stay friends with my exes, or at least socially acquainted, because we are emotionally mature enough to part amicably and able to recognize why we were close in the first place. My second wife is the only ex with whom I went scorched earth. I completely walked away and blocked all contact after the divorce papers were filed. I left only with my bicycle, motorcycle, backpack, computer, and a small bin of stuff. I wanted so little to do with her that I walked away from our house, my sailboat, and all of our joint investments.
So, for your own relationship journeys, I strongly suggest (ideally before getting too deep into a romantic relationship):
- "Attached" by Levine and Heller; accessible book about Attachment Theory
- pretty much anything by John Gottman; his research is primary source material on much of relationship science
- "Non-Violent Communication" by Marshall Rosenberg; even better, take an NVC workshop; this will yield dividends in every interpersonal facet of your life
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Ah, yeah, that makes way more sense. TIL mirror wrap is a thing.
I collaborate with other people who are also on DRS. Before I had teammates on DRS, I tried using Blender, Openshot, Shotcut, KDenLive. Those NLEs are just not there yet.
I actually started my solid modeling/parametric journey on FreeCAD, and I prefer the parametric workflow. I switched to Inventor when FreeCAD kept crashing when the object tree was ~60 primitives even on my monstrous workstation. I would love to go back to FreeCAD, because fuck AutoDesk in its ear, so hopefully they get the stability + complexity under control.
Rant on, bruddah! I am also in the "must use it for work" group, and I despise my work laptop with the fury of 1000 suns. In my personal work and prior to this new job, I was staying on Win 10 for Inventor, AutoCAD, FL Studio (and a bunch of VST synths I bought), and DaVinci Resolve Studio. My experience with my work laptop has spurred my nearly-complete jump to Linux.
FL Studio has been replaced by Bitwig, new learning curve and loss of the VSTs just being the cost I have to eat. I almost have DRS running in perfectly in Aurora Linux. And my two Win 10 machines will just go into an isolated network until I can figure out workarounds/replacements for the Autodesk garbage.
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If this is real and setting aside the steaming pile that is the Cybertruck... The effort required to polish that much stainless steel to that level of finish is astounding.
Poor taste but amazing execution!
I have one of these 8bitdo sticks. It performs well, but more importantly, it's compact compared to other fighting sticks with similar hardware. That borderline proprietary cable gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Edit: A society that has not long since been wiped out because it stood in the way of greed.
That's seriously moving the goalposts of your original statement.
The Salish Tribes lived in the Pacific NW for ~13500 years, which is a pretty long run. They were quite egalitarian, flatly organized, and lived in balance with the ecosystem. There are other long-lived Native American groups to also consider, such as the Iroquois. See: "The Good Rain" by Timothy Egan, "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. That last book suggestion is a bit more tangential, but the point comes across.
Looking at this with a broader lens, 99.9999+% of all species ever have gone extinct. If you look at societies as a type of species, yeah... the less bellicose, less extractive species will get wiped out by the more avaricious until the ecosystem falls too far out of balance to sustain that behavior.
Depends on which context in which you're interested. Internet? Hm... For the refit part and thinking through/designing for all of these factors, maybe The Duracell Project (https://www.youtube.com/@TheDuracellProject/videos). Most of the people I know actually doing this stuff are... actually doing it. There's not a lot of time and bandwidth to create an accessible internet resource. And the seriously salty folk, most of them barely have email. Among my sailing peers, I'm the most technologically capable, and that's not saying much. :D We tend to eschew the high tech that invariably will let us down when we most need it. Much of seafaring knowledge and skills are born from hard experience and sitting around getting drunk with old salts, which is its own kind of hard experience. :D
You start small, push the limits, break shit, find fixes in order get back to port, and find what works for you with what you have at hand. Anything you couldn't fix, you go to your marina neighbors or the internet to find jury-rigs for that specific failure mode. In your day-to-day life, learning some basic knots, how to make whoopie slings and soft shackles with Dyneema, wilderness first aid, wilderness first responder training, even basic disaster preparedness all help change your perspective on how you approach your day. For example, drilling for natural disaster response, at least for me, shifts my mindset into a "what could go wrong," "what are the failure modes of [this critical component]" way of thinking. These are aspects you can explore without a boat or having wilderness nearby.
I haven't watched a lot of her stuff, but Wind Hippie Sailing (https://www.youtube.com/@WindHippieSailing/videos) is a seriously badass solo dirtbagger (not a pejorative; it's technical term cribbed from rock climbing). Solo sailors are a breed apart and a few steps above the rest of us salty dogs who have crew.
Downloaded to my Kiwix app or installed on phone/tablet and mirrored across a bunch of backup devices:
- 100 Rabbits
- Ready.gov
- Animated Knots
- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook (hard to ignore 200 years of military refinement)
- Survival Manual (sadly no longer available)
Now if you're okay with books, lots of great resources there.
- "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Joshua Slocum
- "Sailing a Serious Ocean" by John Kretschmer
- "Cruising in Serrafyn," "The Self Sufficient Sailor," "The Capable Cruiser" by Larry and Lyn Pardey; hell, almost all of their books are great reads; they sailed the world for decades with almost no electric and no engine
- "Where There Is No Doctor and "Where There Is No Dentist," Hesperian Health Guides
- "Annapolis Book of Seamanship" by John Rousmaniere
- Just about anything by Fatty Goodlander, funny stories on the dirtbagging lifestyle
Let me know if you any additional questions. Happy to share.
Edit to add: Practical Sailor (https://www.practical-sailor.com/), a great internet resource . JFC, how did I forget that?!
The diarrhea is going to be one of the biggest challenges. The differences is food, parasite/microbiota challenges... dehydration and acclimating to the local food supply are going to present problems.
Sure, I'm not going to be replacing any modern consumables or modern tech. And the LiFePO4 cells are ultimately going to wear out. The solar cells will lose generation capacity. But I'll probably be long dead before that capacity becomes a concern. Hopefully the hardcopy books don't get wet, because that's where I keep the stuff I don't keep in my head.
That said, there's very little I can't fix on my boat. I did all of the work in my complete refit. If you know any open ocean sailors or sailboat delivery captains, we are a ridiculously resourceful bunch. Prepared AF. Kinda like the Eagle Scouts of the sea. Also, our gear is robust, resilient, and fault tolerant.
We sit around and practice this shit. There's not much else to do out in the ocean. :D "Oh, your refrigerator compressor died." I've got a brand new, spare compressor and a second refrigerator; move the most critical foods accordingly. "The second fridge died." Immediately switch to non-refrigeration food preservation techniques. "You're running critically low on salt." Use the brine rejection from the watermaker. And so on. Because of all the interlocking dependencies on sailboats, we have failover modes all the way down to tarring the hull and weaving hemp lines. Okay, not that far, but you get the idea.
A) I'm very resourceful and have formal wilderness training, but naked and completely foreign environs... Probably not going to do so well, especially if the weather is harsh.
B) Pretty well. My backpack is my bag of tricks and my daily loadout includes my multitool, an IFAK, some clothing layers, and two water bottles. But it's still going to be a challenge because of completely foreign environs.
C) Perfectly awesome, living my best life. My home is my sailboat with solar, 40000Wh battery storage, water makers, extensive first aid, dried food and spices, and more books, movies, and video games than I could possibly finish in my remaining years.
One of Grant Peterson's early designs. He headed up the American division of Bridgestone in the 80s, and he was an iconoclast. The RB series were his take on Italian racing bikes, with the RB-1 being top of the line. But Peterson eschewed some things that industry considered de rigueur. Moreover, these were built in Bridgestone's Japanese shop and were very high quality.
Peterson later went on to found Rivendell Bikes. Regardless of how one might feel about Rivendell's design philosophy, they are seriously great steel bikes that feel amazing, all without resorting to the voodoo that other modern bikes need.
So, finding an RB-1 at a decent price is a bit of a big deal. Finding one in great condition is a coup.
Congrats on the classic steel! Not only classic steel, but one of THE classic steel bikes. In that condition... total unicorn.
I'm totally guilty too. I'll be right next to you in that circle of hell reserved for "SWEs who failed to optimize their code."
- Even when Moore's Law was still holding ground, it was countered by Wirth's Law: software is getting slower at a more rapid pace than hardware is getting faster.
So this is a cool thing to notice as you go about your life: there are no unexploited corners in a balanced ecosystem (reference: Sylvia Earle); take note of what in your locale consumes what. If there is energy to consume, something has evolved to consume that. Ants are amazing at making use of small caloric particles that other organisms will ignore because the bits are too small.
Plastic is an interesting case. Plastic is made of long chains of lipids (an energy storage molecule), polymerized into somewhat durable longer molecules. When some critter learns to crack those molecules, things could get very interesting for humans if we're still around.
If you can plan a bit ahead, ridesharing/transportation is one of the most popular services in US timebanks.
Disclosure: I am a founding board member of a timebank that uses hOurworld software.