A geek, who no longer likes tech

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  • Me neither. The quality of roads is beyond excellent, and usually roads that are considered “worse” are still much better than those considered better right outside EU. And they are driveable by even low-clearance cars[1]! It makes even less sense for EVs, taking into account that added weight of an SUV increases cost and lowers the reach of a car.

    I have only two assumptions, first one being: everyone got into belief that SUVs/crossovers have more space than sedans of same size. Which really is an illusion, and even sellers usually say, where the sizes match. In fact, a kombi car will have so much more space, compared to SUV, that it is really impossible to compare.

    Another assumption is feeling like a Cool Guy®. Even today I saw a guy riding a BMW, which has bunch of “turbo power” stickers, while sitting alone in a crossover. It’s like Macs, which are very average laptops, but everyone wanted them, because of an Apple effect.

    [1]: Here I mean cars with clearance about 10cm



  • Well, the issue is that when you are being rewarded for the work you are doing, the motivation for why you are doing it changes: and the higher is the reward, the less you stay interested in doing things (with very rare exceptions). That was noticed during some researches [wanted to reference some, though can’t find links quickly], and it kind of makes a definition of “work” to work differently than “have a passion and you won’t work a day”.

    That is a reason why we need this distinction: not all people need to be incentivised by money for literally everythign they do. Sometimes people need to do something just because they want to, over what they need to to get going with their lives.





  • I’ve tried all popular and popularized ways to do it, and I’ve been having hard time with it a lot. Here is a short list I can think if off top of my head:

    • paper journals — structured (bullet journal), unstructured
    • Obsidian
    • RoamResearch
    • evernote
    • vimwiki

    I’ve noticed that to me, the tool must be a perfect fit, otherwise I will just forget about it and stop using it.

    So, now I use a paper notebook with Lamy Safari, and keep literally no system (except for writing down date and place — I don’t even write things down every day!). With that, I can keep journaling and taking adequate notes at work with at least some level of consistency — that I don’t miss any information in the process. That is what worked for me :)







  • RCS is a really nice thing in principle, because SMS/MMS infrastructure is just awfully outdated from security standpoint.

    Though, replacing SMS/MMS infrastructure which is internetless yet cross-carrier by making it a internet-first and tied to a single meta-carrier under the hood kind of defeats the purpose overall. There was an attempt to build an independent carrier-deployable implementation of RCS, yet it turned out to be bought off by Google :(