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by luxagraf
Wed Nov 01, 2023 1:25 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: Are you a Nomad or a Homesteader?
Replies: 117
Views: 33675

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Are most of you Nomads or Homesteaders? Are you partnered with the opposite? How have you worked that out? After 7 years traveling in an RV, I am firmly in the nomad camp. That said, I am married to someone who I think could probably have been happy in the homestead scenario as well, or some blendi...
by luxagraf
Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:10 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: How do you raise kids with wisdom?
Replies: 36
Views: 8555

Re: How do you raise kids with wisdom?

I have been trying to figure out best practices to raise kids with wisdom. Not to be too contrarian, but I don't think there are any best practices. The minute you start thinking of people as abstractions, e.g., "kids" I think you're doomed. In my experience the only thing you can do is b...
by luxagraf
Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Setting up a website - ERE style
Replies: 82
Views: 20027

Re: Setting up a website - ERE style

FWIW, as someone who has been hosting their own site for 20 years now, I do what Jacob linked to at the beginning of this thread, flat HTML files served by Nginx. Super simple. Can be hosted just about anywhere (I've used AWS servers, and just about every VPS provider listed on LowEndTalk.com). That...
by luxagraf
Tue May 09, 2023 9:10 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive
Replies: 19
Views: 2189

Re: The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive

And getting lost. I'm waiting for getting lost to be something people pay to do. Along the lines of how candlelight become "fancy" once everyone has electric lights. Getting lost, like genuinely confusingly lost, like I did every time I went to San Diego prior to Maps apps, seems likely t...
by luxagraf
Tue May 09, 2023 6:46 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive
Replies: 19
Views: 2189

Re: The 90s Were Objectively the Best Time to Be Alive

I am the same age as the author and 100% agree. There was an optimism about the age and being a millennium baby. Climate change meant banning CFCs and leaded petrol. I don't remember doomerism or global extinction being a thing. Everything was going to be hunky dory. Interesting. Because I am a few...
by luxagraf
Thu Mar 23, 2023 6:46 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: How Much is Remote Work Worth to You?
Replies: 36
Views: 6003

Re: How Much is Remote Work Worth to You?

For me it very much depends on the work being done. At the moment I am a writer, I would not gain anything by being around other writers, that's just not how writing works (for me at least) so I would never go into an office. Same with programming when I was doing that. But obviously its hard to WFH...
by luxagraf
Sun Jan 15, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: GTD Getting Things Done for ERE People
Replies: 55
Views: 14350

Re: GTD Getting Things Done for ERE People

How is GTD compatible with the maker schedule? http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html GTD doesn't use timeblocking. I mean clearly you can, like AxelHeyst writes above. But I never have. The whole idea of timeblocking fills me with dread. But then I am one of Graham's example cases for the m...
by luxagraf
Sat Dec 31, 2022 8:00 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
Replies: 1976
Views: 341006

Re: The Education of Axel Heyst

I've never understood the whole 16-20 miles days on the PCT. Why go that fast just to finish? Maybe that's just me. Of course the longest trail I've done was about 250 miles and that was over 25 years ago so I am not the one to listen to. I just wanted to point out that dehydrating an entire PCT wor...
by luxagraf
Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:13 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: GTD Getting Things Done for ERE People
Replies: 55
Views: 14350

Re: GTD Getting Things Done for ERE People

Ah I love me some GTD nerdery. I too took this up way back when Merlin Mann was a blogger and have at various points been really good with it, totally dropped it, gone back to it, customized it, added some elements of Kanban to it and so on. Today I still use the core elements (capture and organize ...
by luxagraf
Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:15 pm
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Linux - Getting started
Replies: 30
Views: 4553

Re: Linux - Getting started

I've used exclusively Linux since 2008 when I first tried Ubuntu (eventually finding my way to arch). FWIW, I have been recommending System76's Pop_OS for newcomers. It bills itself as something for STEM types, but I've found it to be the most trouble free Linux experience no matter what you want to...
by luxagraf
Tue Oct 25, 2022 6:51 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Is there a name for this phenomenon?
Replies: 76
Views: 9369

Re: Is there a name for this phenomenon?

I never found mindfulness meditation to do a damn thing for me. Well, it bored me. Not sure if that counts. But I have been practicing discursive meditation for about ten years now and find that very useful. Especially as a way to clarify my thinking. It's what christians used to call contemplation ...
by luxagraf
Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:37 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Lying flat, quiet quitting, Gervais losers
Replies: 49
Views: 8554

Re: Lying flat, quiet quitting, Gervais losers

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/06/quiet-quitting-why-doing-the-bare-minimum-at-work-has-gone-global I would just like to say that that that opening line there was solid. went a bit downhill after that. I have noticed this from a slightly different angle: customer service in shops. if a ...
by luxagraf
Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:10 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Kids on ERE
Replies: 137
Views: 41322

Re: Kids on ERE

There are a lot of people who say you can't do certain things or you have to live like X. As you seem to have noticed, this will dramatically increase the minute you have kids. And, as far as I can tell, the number of people saying that just keeps increasing as time goes on (our twins are about to ...
by luxagraf
Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:30 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Older minimalists
Replies: 28
Views: 6327

Re: Older minimalists

Speaking as an Xer, minimalism sounds like trendy pretentiousness to me. Strongly agree. I think there's a big generational component to that term. I live in a 26 ft RV with my family of 5 and we have very little stuff, but it's not like I track it all in spreadsheet and make videos about it. Havin...
by luxagraf
Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:57 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Emergence of the Literature of Climate Change
Replies: 48
Views: 7907

Re: Emergence of the Literature of Climate Change

Jacob links to them, but I'd second Paolo Bacigalupi, esp. The Windup Girl.
by luxagraf
Wed Sep 01, 2021 7:27 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Ego's Journal
Replies: 371
Views: 56685

Re: Ego's Journal

nice!
by luxagraf
Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:52 am
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Digital tools/hacks
Replies: 30
Views: 4807

Re: Digital tools/hacks

The backlash was so fantastic that the contributors have backtracked on the idea. More info here https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889. mmm, yes and no. The issue thread you've link to is actually their first facepalm PR move. They backed off that. But then they updated their TOS wit...
by luxagraf
Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:36 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What are you taking/eating or doing to improve your immunity?
Replies: 27
Views: 10102

Re: What are you taking/eating or doing to improve your immunity?

How can one ask for a TB vaccination in a way that leaves a liability-avoiding doctor no other option than to agree? Travel plans to Indonesia? The conclusion mentions the DTwP vaccination may be the most promising. The CDC Adult Immunization Schedule calls for a TDAP booster every ten years so tha...
by luxagraf
Mon Oct 26, 2020 3:01 pm
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: How many of you wear glasses or contacts?
Replies: 27
Views: 5640

Re: How many of you wear glasses or contacts?

Ego wrote:
Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:40 pm
I've had good luck with https://lensesrx.com/ for re-lensing second hand frames with my prescription. Very inexpensive.
I believe it was you who turned me onto this a few years ago. I've done it several times now, great results. I second the recommendation if you already have frames you like.
by luxagraf
Thu Oct 08, 2020 5:40 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Is programming still a valuable skill to learn?
Replies: 68
Views: 18614

Re: Is programming still a valuable skill to learn?

Is programming still a valuable skill? Valuable for what? For who? Abstractly I don't think it's really all that useful. You can learn logic studying ancient greek or half a dozen other things, just as well as control structures in programming languages. Logic didn't arrive with C. If you want a hi...