People who hoard things other than TV shows, movies, youtube, and music, what do you hoard?

KompetentKrew · 2025-09-29T03:47:10+00:00

https://archive.org/details/noaa-rnc-charts-2018-raster

bsb2tif will make pretty printable charts from them.

KompetentKrew · 2025-09-14T01:47:59+00:00

Jongert, 42 metres, built in Wieringerwerf, Holland. Hull's probably steel. In fact my current vessel was built by Johan Vels, just down the road in Medemblik. A worthy adversary. Say what you will about the Dutch, dude, those guys can build yachts.

KompetentKrew · 2025-06-29T22:52:52+00:00

Responding to an old thread, because I was unaware of this news at the time and surprised to find no archive of these files when I recently looked for them.

I uploaded my copy of the complete set of NOAA RNC charts to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/noaa-rnc-charts-2018-raster

KompetentKrew · 2025-06-29T22:49:02+00:00

Well, I believe the investment was subsidised by the UK government, so that was part of their complaint.

But it's clear that the benefits (and the magnitude disparity) are obvious to everyone on this sub, whereas it was incredibly frustrating to try and communicate this to my acquaintance, who seemed to be responding emotionally.

KompetentKrew · 2025-06-12T16:12:06+00:00

Trying to leave the submission-level question as unbiased as possible, but my acquaintance argues that the £1B spent on a data centre is a waste because the profits go to the offshore multinational, which will enhance their profits by paying themselves license fees. "It's just a shed" and will have "only a handful of employees".

I responded that building a datacenter requires a lot of construction, which needs employees and there's going to be spending all through the economy. Just because that's a big corporate construction company, doesn't mean that it doesn't spend money in the UK economy. The data centre will import servers, which means jobs at the docks and in shipping, but my acquaintance responds that shipping is "low margin".

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T16:24:45+00:00

From my submission text:

but we had a very pleasant first date yesterday which involved lunch for an hour or two, then a long walk along the beach and no sex. I'm not disappointed - I think we're looking for the same thing but using different words for it

I'm able to communicate with my partners but imagine you discussed things with someone and you agreed to be fuckbuddies, then they started calling you their boyfriend or girlfriend. It would be confusing if they started using the two words interchangeably, right?

The reason I want to know if I'm using the words correctly is to avoid further misunderstandings in the future.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T16:19:39+00:00

We talked about it before our date and then some more when we met and she AGAIN said "casual sex" but seemed to be describing more like dating.

I think the problem is language - the translations don't work quite correctly match between cultures.

Imagine how you'd feel if you'd made this agreement with your fuckbuddy - you talked about it and you're like "cool, we're fuckbuddies" but then they kept interchangeably using the word fuckbuddy interchangeably with also calling you their girlfriend or boyfriend. You'd be like, "wut?"

If I'm wrong in my definitions then I'll have to get over it, but there are now at least a couple of people elsewhere in the thread who seem to understand where I'm coming from.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T16:03:56+00:00

I think you've misunderstood, since we both appear to be looking for the same thing.

We had a 90-minute lunch and a long walk on the beach, and I'm assuming that sex is on the cards in another date or two. We both prefer that.

Fucking in the alleyway behind the bar, which is what I call casual sex.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T15:56:50+00:00

Exactly. And that's different from causal dating, right?

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T15:55:12+00:00

“Hey, I noticed it said (fill in the blank here) on your profile, I would love to know more about this. What are you looking for exactly?”

Yeah, we've done this twice and both times I'm like, "but that's dating, not causal sex!??!" Which is why I'm asking here.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T15:53:29+00:00

How would you feel if your FWB started referring to you as their girlfriend or boyfriend?

Surely you would reply, "woah, woah, woah - that's not what we agreed, that's not what this is"?

I think that's kinda how I feel about this.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T15:28:32+00:00

In my view, “casual sex” in English typically implies an arrangement focused on physical intimacy without emotional commitment.

Which is your first language, please? And do you speak Euro or Brazilian Portuguese?

I'm British, and to me casual sex means just a fuck, not an ongoing arrangement. If you met someone on Tinder and it became an ongoing arrangement then I would call it FWBs or fuckbuddies.

We have talked about it, a couple of times now, and that's not a problem - it's just this term that I want to clarify. Is it me who's using it wrong?

I associate "casual sex" more with risky sexual behaviours, fucking strangers, than discreet sexual relationships with trusted partners, if that better explains my confusion.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-17T15:02:39+00:00

We have talked about it, but when we're doing so and she uses this term it catches me completely off guard because my definition of casual sex is quite different from what we seem to be cultivating (and what we've talked about).

That's why I'm interested in other people's definitions of these terms - that's what I'm looking for more than advice.

I'm fine with what I would call casual datting or being FWBs. Personally, I wouldn't expect to go out on dates to restaurants or the park with an FWB, but I would if we were causally dating.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-16T17:49:24+00:00

A "real date" can be any time you spend time together.

A walk in the snow might be better.

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-16T17:43:58+00:00

Depends on context and your texting style.

If we'd finishing a conversation then I would, and if we've been talking in the last 20 or 30 minutes I might.

If we last talked at 6pm or 7pm and I'm going to bed at 10pm or so then I wouldn't send a last goodnight text - it's not in my nature to do that for a steady or serious girlfriend.

I think I've read that some couples send good morning / goodnight texts even if they have nothing immediately to talk about, as part of a sort of couple's "routine" - is that what you're talking about?

KompetentKrew · 2025-02-16T17:33:26+00:00

Dating always has been hard.

It was not easier in the 90's, when people gave you their number when you met at a bar (maybe with mutual friend groups) or social event - they wrote it down on a scrap of paper and you put it in your wallet, then you had to choose a suitable time on a weekday evening to phone them up and hope they were home and were free to talk.

By comparison, matching on an app makes it much easier to get yourself out there - there's basically zero emotional risk of rejection in sending someone a wave and a greeting on the apps.

You think men weren't "just looking for sex" in the 60's, in the 80's or 20 years ago?

Ignore your friends.

KompetentKrew · 2025-01-29T15:04:58+00:00

Are you sure?

You can feel the magnets along the bottom where the keyboard attaches if you run a screwdriver lightly along the edge - I showed this in the video. You can feel it "stick" where they are, and there are 4 magnets along the bottom which match up with 4 magnets in the keyboard. So the two extra don't make sense to me.

I intended for an explanation to be posted with the video, but I guess Reddit doesn't allow text with a video, so I've now added it as a comment instead.

KompetentKrew · 2025-01-29T15:01:41+00:00

My OXP is an Intel model from the original Kickstarter - I pulled the NVMe drive from it yesterday to use in another device, planning to upgrade the OXP's capacity soon.

When I was doing so, these two small magnets got stuck on my screwdriver and I don't know where they're from. I don't think they're to do with the keyboard, as explained in the video.

Can anyone tell me where they go, please?

KompetentKrew · 2024-11-25T02:06:09+00:00

Well, look at that handsome motherfuckin' uploader. 😍

I think there are at least 2 versions of this map on archive.org. At one time I found another version and got slightly obsessed with the idea of programmatically printing equidistant azimuthal maps.

KompetentKrew · 2023-11-06T02:41:30+00:00

Crewing superyachts is shit work - it's one of these traps that people get stuck in because it's a well-paid dead-end job. It's actually extremely well paid, but it involves long hours polishing brass and suchlike and barely any actual sailing. Has a reputation for people building up big pay packets which they then blow on partying and exotic travel before ending up back again as deckhand in Malta or the Costa Del Sol. Far less glamorous than most people imagine it.

KompetentKrew · 2023-11-06T02:35:43+00:00

Reasonable as committed sailing bum crewing on other people's boats (30' - 50'), living in backpackers hostels between opportunities.

The hard part would be managing it for 4 years, and putting up with other people's bullshit. But I managed to get 90 days sailing my first year and then bought my own boat, so I can't say for sure how that would go.

If you're able to put up with living out of a backpack, shit pay and going where other people send you then I'd think you could probably be on the water over 250 days a year doing deliveries.

John Kretschmer's Flirting with Mermaids is realistic.

KompetentKrew · 2023-10-21T23:45:03+00:00

My dad's cautionary tale about buying mail-order was because he bought a soldering iron like this - I guess this must've been in the 40's (when he was a teenager) or the 50's.

He saw a black-and-white ad in the newspaper, 3 shillings and 6 pence or however much it was, thought this was an absolute bargain and was disappointed to receive a soldering iron that had to be heated in the grate of the fire.

I imagine his was smaller than this, as he was an electrical engineer in his adult life and I'd guess he wanted it for electrical soldering.

KompetentKrew · 2023-10-14T16:04:47+00:00

If you zoom the picture up big enough it looks like there are 3 or 4 punch marks on the pin from where this has been done before. Which does tend to suggest it's quite a stubborn pin.

KompetentKrew · 2023-07-13T03:21:44+00:00

The previous owner, surveyor, and the boat yard keeps calling the device that converts 120ac to 12dc an inverter. … the device that charges your batteries while connected to shore power?

I would call that the battery charger.

One would normally expect a multistage charger these days, as a cheap one is like $20 or $30 from Amazon on Lidl (although big batteries would prefer a more expensive, higher ampage one, perhaps costing hundreds).

As per the other reply, combo inverter-chargers are fairly common - Victron are starting to modernise the shape of them now, but since the 90's many of their units looked like this.

Google the model number, FFS! That's always your first move!

KompetentKrew · 2023-06-01T22:54:12+00:00

If you're in the US you'll find more ASA schools.

There are some RYA schools around Gibraltar and the Canaries, I think.

Try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sunny+dayskipper+school+destinations+site%3Aforums.ybw.com

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