cd -… Wow, I can’t believe I never knew about this. I should read more man pages.

!! Is useful too, never knew. Thanks!

That makes sense, I’ll try the Bowline on a bite and report back! Thanks!

Thanks for the expert advice! I didn’t realize sheet bends were so suspect, I’ll have to research the knots you described.

Hmmm, maybe I tied the butterfly wrong or am remembering it wrong. I’ll have to play with it and see, it’s honestly been a year or two since I’ve put one under load.

And thanks for the disclaimer! Yeah I didn’t mean to make it sound so easy to help someone with knots, I’ve never actually used a bowline for this purpose, I’ve just heard it explained that way for emergency use. But I agree it’d have to be an extreme emergency to risk using the wrong equipment or technique, better to just wait for proper help if it’s safe to do so.

All of my experience is just novice stuff with Paracord, etc etc. My rock climbing experience is all just indoor bouldering 😬

Thanks again!

I’ll add to this, know how to use good rope, learn a few knots, and you’ll be surprised at how often you use them even in your daily life.

My favorites, and thus my recommendations, are these, in order of usefulness.

1. The Bowline. Obviously. It’s one of the most versatile knots you can make. You use it to create a loop around something, and that loop will not move. It will not tighten or loosen, it can support your body weight and more. It’s often used to haul people up when they’ve fallen into a crevice or hole, because a noose would tighten around your chest and hurt you on the way up, but a Bowline will not.

And, if you need a noose, you can make a small looped Bowline, and pull the lead line through it to make a noose that will self tighten on whatever your putting it around.

Best of all, the Bowline is easy to remove. You know how hard a regular square knot is to undo? Especially if you’ve pulled it really tight? A Bowline knot, by design, is always easier to undo, even if it’s seen hundreds of pounds of load. It really is the best knot, in my opinion.

If you can only learn one knot, make it a Bowline.

2. Truckers hitch. I use this knot all the time. Have you ever tried to use rope to tie something down? And no matter how tight you pull the rope, by the time you’re done making the knot, the rope has slipped a bit, and it’s looser than you’d like? Especially annoying when trying to put up a clothes line at camp, and it’s all droopy.

Enter the truckers hitch. This knot let’s you cinch the rope up super tight, and lock it in place, so it stays that way. Plus the finished knot always has a tail you can pull to easily undo it. This is useful for clotheslines, hammocks, tying stuff to your truck or bike, plenty of uses, easily my second favorite knot. Tied for first, practically.

3. Sheet bend. Have a rope that’s too short? Need to extend it a bit to get the job done? Sheet bend, double or triple sheet bend depending on the load. Easily connects two ropes together, and comes undone easy enough when you need it to, unlike if you just used two square knots.

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4. Clove Hitch. Quickly and easily tie the end of a rope to a circular object like a pole or tree. Goes on easy, comes off easy.

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5. Butterfly. Make a non sliding loop anywhere in the middle of a rope. Don’t load the rope too hard though, this knot can be tough to undo.

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6. Spike hitch, similar to butterfly, but more likely to slide, tightens like a noose on whatever you loop through it under load, but has a wide variety of uses that become more apparent the more you play with rope and knots. Fun fact, this knot is easy to learn, because it’s the basis for the Bowline and truckers hitch.

There’s definitely more knots to learn, and others will have opinions on which ones are the best. But these are my favorites. Just learning the first two will be extremely helpful to you.

Edit: wow that formatting really got away from me. I’m on mobile, so I’m leaving it, sorry

Window units are the best bang for the buck. Don’t worry about expensive ones, $100 goes a LONG way to cooling one bedroom. And it’s cheaper than doing the whole house.

We have a big in wall unit in our apartment that can do the whole living space, but we hardly ever run it. We just run the bedroom one, set to like 70-75f, just to take the humidity out and chill it down a bit. A nice place to go cool down if you get hot while doing things around the house. We don’t run it when we’re not home, because even the cheapest Menards special can cool the room down in minutes, and it’s cheaper to not run it when we don’t need it.

Beware of the units with the hose… You’re paying more, and trading the convenience of not lugging a big unit into the window (small ones really aren’t that bad), for the inconvenience of having to dump the water (unless you pay more for one that can pump it out the window).

But by far the worst thing about the hose units, if they only have one exhaust hose, and no return hose? They are less efficient, because they create negative pressure in your house that sucks hot air in through every crack.

For more information see here.

Upvoting for visibility, but this seems insane and impossible to me. When I take a cold shower, I can feel the water stealing the heat from my back, because it’s warmer when it hits my legs. It’s crazy.

It’s definitely taking heat away, for me, and I would die if I tried to take a hot shower on a hot day.

I start with a warm shower, like normal, then slowly turn it down until it’s nice and cool, almost cold. But not ice cold. Feel way better afterwards.

Wiztree and Treesize are both much faster.

Windirstat is still relevant… But slow.

Unique! Thanks, I’ll try it and report back!

My wife has one, I don’t like to use it, it’s too aggressive for me.

I can reach my back with my arms. To get the spot right between my shoulders I have to reach up and come down from the top with one arm, while using my other hand to grab my elbow and pull it to push my hand low enough to get it more effectively.

Why don’t you just get one beefy computer, then use something like Nucleus Co-op to split screen multiple sessions of the game on one TV?

Or if you’ve already got multiple copies of the game on multiple devices, you can use something like a multiviewer to split it up.

No need for a special TV in either case 😉

I was with you until you started italicizing things and calling people lazy. It’s an honest question, you gotta chill bro

You articulated what I was thinking, better than I could have. This is it for me.

I’d add that there’s probably a lot of habit involved, plus the fact that everyone else does it.

So not only am I not used to saying “today is the 4th of May”, everyone around me isn’t used to hearing it either and might think I’m being weird.

Used to use a double edge razor from the 1960s, I still have it. Gillette Slim.

I just use a modern DE instead, 2015 I think. Feather AS-D2.

Both of them will probably outlast me. Especially the Feather, even though it’s newer and therefore theoretically made with less care, it was made in Japan, and it’s entirely stainless steel, not pot metal. Very strong. You’d need to run it over with a truck to break it.

If cared for, nothing is stopping the Gillette from going another 60 years either.

I’ve definitely pulled my hair out with docker too. Banged my head against the wall for a couple days before finally giving up.

I’m not ridiculously tech savvy, but I’ve tinkered with Linux since I was young, daily drive it on my laptop. I’m not afraid of the command line, and I’m smart enough to search for help and guides when I need it.

But something about docker just breaks my brain. Maybe I’m too old and there’s too much abstract thought required, I don’t know. But I can’t figure it out.

They did not nest properly on boost. But I guess that’s not surprising, we only just recently got them at all

After some research, apparently its closest comparison is pisco yes.

It seems like an agave spirit vs tequila, or sparkling wine vs champagne, situation. It’s a pisco, but the location makes the specific flavor, and so you can’t legally make singani elsewhere than Tarija Bolivia.

I’ve only had pisco mixed in drinks, never bought and tried any on its own, so I can’t compare personally. But I can say that singani tasted really unique and delicious to me, enough that I decided to make room in my luggage so I could share it with friends at home. Before I knew that Singani63 was literally a re-label of the same stuff I brought home 🤦‍♂️

Interesting! Thanks, I’ll report back 👍

Thanks for this, but I apologize, I’m still confused.

You’ve described fixed gear, and geared, I think we now agree as to what these are.

But what is a single speed bike? I’ve never heard of it. Is it a geared bike, with only one gear, but still has a tensioner? So it can’t have hub brakes? Why would such a thing exist?

I had to skip 3, two would dox me, one was a private Google doc.

That leaves us here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/insouciance-2025-04-30

Good to know lol, thanks