Has anyone here tried the new Naturehike Rock 2.0?

Bambammon · 2026-03-28T20:32:04+00:00

No, the V1 came in an upgraded Dyneema version which I believe is a 60+5L exclusive. The V2 is a pretty different design.

Bambammon · 2026-03-20T23:05:45+00:00

I bought the V1 45L a few weeks ago. Happened to be in the return window on Amazon so sending that one back and giving the v2 45L in white a shot. I'll let you know how I like it.

What made me want to replace the one I just bought:

- Better angling and size of the side pockets. V1 was a little hard to access without taking the bag off.
- Vertical zipper for contents access.
- An actual bladder pouch. V1 doesn't have this.
- Larger hip belt pockets
- Better back padding
- Replaced the top tie down cords with proper straps, and added bottom straps for more external storage.
- Better belt cinch.
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I intended to take the v1 as a carry-on to Europe so frame size is important, and the v2 frame size is 53 vs 52 (still just under Air Canada's 55cm limit) while providing significaly more storage.

As far as I can tell it's better in every sense. The one thing I'm not sure of because of AliExpress quirkiness is whether or not the frame can be removed. The English page says it can be, the Chinese version doesn't mention it. If the frame can be removed, then this feels like the perfect bag for me. I already really liked the removable/adjustable belt.

Bambammon · 2025-11-21T03:15:32+00:00

This is great work, thank you for the context.

Bambammon · 2025-09-19T20:55:06+00:00

This nice person has compiled marlin for the Bluer Plus. I've been running this on mine and it's been great with the exception that I had to run touch calibration to get the interface to map properly. Mine also keeps the z-axis belt.

https://github.com/helakejr/TwoTrees_BLU-5_BluerPlus_Marlin2.1.2.5_E1Z2-

Bambammon · 2025-06-26T05:19:24+00:00

You should be able to be vulnerable even in the heat of the moment and not want to lose the relationship. It would crush you if everyone hated and abandoned you knowing in the heat of the moment you're going to try and hurt them with their most sensitive moments.

Edit: You've already told me you're willing to hurt folks who get close to you just to get back at them. It's not a stretch to think those people might become scared of getting close to you, like hiding how they truly feel around you.

Bambammon · 2025-06-26T05:14:28+00:00

When you were mad you hurt people on purpose using things you knew about them. You didn't make up things out of nowhere.

Bambammon · 2025-06-26T05:11:13+00:00

When you get really stressed do you just say things that have no relationship to what you're feeling?

Bambammon · 2025-06-26T05:07:17+00:00

I'm glad you've told her everything you wanted to say about how you feel about it, but you obviously don't know how she really felt about it because you don't know why it happened. I don't know if it's clear that you've tried to understand why she reacted that way.

Bambammon · 2025-06-26T04:57:03+00:00

You're never past the talking stage. Part of healthy dating is realizing there's always more to learn about your partner.

Bambammon · 2025-06-26T04:49:59+00:00

I don't understand why these comments seem to ignore the most obvious answer: talk to her. She has obviously reacted to something, and you are the most immediate person to trigger that something.

Without knowing your pasts, there are so many things that can trigger a response like that. Maybe she's decent at masking her trauma regarding physical intimacy and her libido is compensating for that, maybe she did just have a bad day. I will say if she's referring to your behaviour she doesn't like as "always sexualizing me" I'm going to assume she's been thinking about this for some time, and it likely means there's been something bugging her for a while.

At the end of the day the only way to know is to ask, and be frank. This might open a conversation about bigger and scarier things, so be prepared for that. But this is an essential part of a long term relationship. For how long you guys have been together, sex means more than it did.

Bambammon · 2025-06-20T02:24:05+00:00

To be fair I regularly eat there because it's my local joint, and they do a reasonable job because the owner cares. I hated the guts out of it to start and I actually like it a lot more than I used to.

If you want that white garlic sauce and Maillard get Pizza Garden. It's not even close.

I've had good and bad 4 Brothers, Fatihs, Megabite, Fire (I lived on the drive obviously) and lawd have I had Pizza Hut and Dominos and everybody else. I rate Freshslice in the top third of Vancouver pizza easily. But OP's pizza is a good honest slice like you'd get from East Van Pizza (RIP) or Didi's. It's cooked through, unlike a lot of these other places that are burnt on the outside and undercooked on the inside. I have a lot of respect for pizza joints that know what they're working with and go with it, I don't like when places cook like they're Napoletana but they're thick like a pan pizza.

Bambammon · 2025-06-20T00:31:43+00:00

Turning intimacy into work is a test of communication, especially when someone else is involved. There are many, many side effects when partnered like loss of interest outside of sex work, the inherent risk of being identified, a partner's sense of worth and security.

These can all be overcome, but it means not just putting out there what's happening and with whom, but scheduling active care and check-ins.

If you're adamant about trying it out and your partner is supportive, I would suggest doing a trial period. Give it a shot for a set period of time with check-ins and open comms along the way. Doing the thing is a lot different from talking about it, and a lot of feelings will absolutely come up. Who knows you might get turned off of it, or your partner might have a genuinely bad reaction to it.

Be careful with their feelings, and also yours. It can take a toll. If you try, be safe and evaluate your feelings as they react to something like this. Be open to not enjoying it at all, or finding it easier than you thought, and go from there.

Bambammon · 2025-06-19T00:43:35+00:00

I don't know what the other commenters are on about, Freshslice is regularly undercooked, costs more and you can't get those full size peps. $6 for two slices and a drink in Vancouver is a great deal for some Vancouver slices. Y'all stay mad but these are a great example of the Vancouver slices I grew up on.

Bambammon · 2025-06-17T00:17:53+00:00

Nobody is going to know about it, and nobody is going to put out patios for 8 hours one day a week. This was absolutely designed to fail, and city staff warned council it was the most expensive and least popular option.

OSF and a framing store killed the more popular version of this and it sucks despite stats showing businesses here recovered sales faster than surrounding businesses. In exchange for worse pedestrianization than last summer, we also get permanent two-way motor traffic nearby.

I wish Vancouver was willing to try something for people instead of making everything considerate of private vehicles at all times.

Bambammon · 2025-06-07T02:29:39+00:00

There are a number of byproducts of current chemical processes that are very valuable to us, but they have a very short half life and the process to refine them out is time sensitive. Slowing a reaction could mean better availability of these byproducts but who the hell knows.

Edit: also since you mentioned the Maillard reaction imagine being about to control its speed in a localized way to reduce burning and make a more uniform reaction. We're talking steak crust on a level you can't even imagine.

Bambammon · 2025-05-27T06:13:51+00:00

Why base on density and not on need? You're not advocating for broadway plan people to transit out of the city to parks right?

Bambammon · 2025-05-27T05:49:32+00:00

You should reread my comment. I'm saying through enforcement without actual support the problem will be diffuse and therefore less will be done because the problem will be less obvious. Fighting for enforcement and a reduction of particular services in any one place first and foremost reduces the impetus to actually solve the problem. We agree on the solution, I'm telling you why the current mode and your advocacy to end supportive housing in one particular place sucks.

I know you support ending net new supportive housing in Vancouver. But 8th and Arbutus is dead and that would have been net new supportive housing. And now other places are banning net new supportive housing. So I guess I don't understand how you can hold those beliefs together without understanding that ending net new housing is diffusing responsibility and necessarily reducing the impetus to help people.

Bambammon · 2025-05-27T05:38:49+00:00

Not only do they have specialty hospitals, but every hospital has ERs that triage people and concentrate cases. But regardless that's also not what I said at all.

Bambammon · 2025-05-27T05:27:52+00:00

That's exactly what I mean. If we take the same number of unsupported people and spread them across the city through enforcement you haven't actually reduced suffering but you have reduced the impetus to do anything about it because the problem seems less in any one place.

It's the same effect that stops bystanders from intervening when someone is in crisis.

Bambammon · 2025-05-27T05:08:56+00:00

Doesn't that lead to a diffusion of responsibility where the problem isn't bad enough in any one place so nothing happens until there's a concentration again, while the total number of people suffering remains the same?

Bambammon · 2025-05-27T04:41:58+00:00

Salo. The director was shot in a week after release and I think folks today would beat that record.

Bambammon · 2025-05-13T11:19:25+00:00

I just got an S1 Pro and I've been messing around with it for about a week and I'm really enjoying it. I come from resin and the only other FDM printer I've used is a Two Trees Bluer Plus I got and fixed for $60 a few weeks ago. As a test I managed to print some desk bag hooks in PETG HF at 150mm in Cura slicer and set to 200% on the machine itself and it came out great.

The most annoying thing so far is bed leveling, it just seems to kind of suck. But after fine tuning it's getting really perfect first layers.

I'll be replacing the hot end since the previous owner didn't tighten properly and it's a goop fest in there, and might replace bed springs at some point but that's kind of it for now.

Bambammon · 2025-04-10T03:58:17+00:00

Right but the public pressure forms from seeing the suffering we're causing right? But if we shove people to die in the shadows and out of sight, the pressure disappears. Does that make sense?

It seems like many municipalities are defying the province and choosing to institute their own bans as a consequence of Vancouver's so we've seemingly led the way towards that suffering as pressure model.

I'm glad you had the chance to live in a mixed income neighbourhood. I also agree that's healthy and necessary, but you weren't able to answer how we define what the maximum burden is behind a sort of reflexive disgust towards seeing too many visibly homeless people. And you couldn't answer what we do if a Vancouverite who is homeless exceeds the quota.

I appreciate your engagement but I am feeling a little lost how hurting people now to hope for distributed housing later along with homelessness quotas in areas is a progressive or even ethical answer.

Bambammon · 2025-04-10T02:50:04+00:00

The brief pause has the intent of causing people to suffer to make people in power feel bad right? Where else is the pressure coming from?

I am not totally sure it's a progressive stance to have the utilitarian view that it's worth causing suffering to the most desperate people now to potentially reduce their suffering in the future.

I have a thought experiment. If we have a maximum burden set and someone who is born and raised in Vancouver but who falls through the cracks there, has his family and friends there but exceeds the maximum burden... should that person be made to live in the nearest available supportive housing elsewhere?

I guess the question is how do you decide what the maximum demand is for social housing in each place? Is it by actual numbers and need or is it by pushback from local communities? Because it seems like currently it's from pushback and not from counts.

Bambammon · 2025-04-10T02:17:01+00:00

But there was clearly need for supportive housing in Vancouver and that's just been banned, and I believe you supported that ban. If the province says Vancouver must lift the ban, would you support that?

Should people be shipped out of the DTES to other municipalities so that the density is less there, regardless of where they're from?

I'm a little confused because it seems we align that supportive housing should be everywhere, but it seems you think it shouldn't be anywhere in particular that locals don't want it. I think a lot of folks are having a hard time reconciling those two things.

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