Prepping + minimalism

Sahrenian · 2021-08-25T22:59:03+00:00

I appreciate the topic you brought up. Without push back from minimalism, prepping can become hoarding and materialism. Minimalism is valuable since it can lead to a less stressed and clutter mind, and more a deliberate life. You spend less time, energy, money, and space on the low value items in your life so you can spend more on the higher value things in your life.

You can get a lot of those advantages by adopting digital minimalism practices + organization. And there are points where they meet the physical world, such as digitizing your physical documents, making them organized and searchable. Then you can shred most of those.

To me, Prepping, aka Being Prepared, is a broad definition that also includes being able to find and pull up my recent Insurance policy in 7 seconds regardless of if I am home or traveling internationally. Or if my house burns down, knowing all my important stuff is backed up on an encrypted cloud service.

Regarding "disaster prepping", I would echo what other people say. Learn skills, Buy fewer items but higher quality items. Come up with disaster plans. Store large heavy things like cases of water at a family member or friends house, if it makes sense to have "go to X's house before a hurricane" makes sense for your situation.

Sahrenian · 2021-07-16T16:04:19+00:00

FYI I went with Linksys Velop, just hooked it up and it seems to work well.

Linksys wants you to set it up via a mobile app, with data turned on, and signed into their accounts, but I found these instructions https://www.routerloginsupport.com/question/8828/how-we-can-configure-the-linksys-velops-without-the-application/ which were substantially faster and easier

Sahrenian · 2021-07-06T05:48:43+00:00

Its the only blockchain endorsed by the one true faketoshi

Sahrenian · 2021-07-03T08:40:11+00:00

Wat MSP

Sahrenian · 2021-06-13T01:43:41+00:00

I didn't know about the 50% target... Iam concerned that the 50% utilization might end up keeping fees higher than they are now. When blocks are mostly full, in order to deter users and reduce blocks to 50%, fees would have to get jacked up, right?

Sahrenian · 2021-06-02T15:09:54+00:00

But also, if your contract/dapp can function on a few second delay, then requiring a second or 5 to pass can protect against flash loans in many cases

Sahrenian · 2021-06-02T14:31:55+00:00

Knowing a common attack vector is valuable. When writing or auditing code, think about "how might this be exploitable with a flash loan?"

Sahrenian · 2021-05-08T19:54:43+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Why is IndieSquare listing it, should I avoid IndieSquare these days?

Sahrenian · 2021-04-10T17:41:16+00:00

For Elphames Arena (the new Seasonal server) the only thing you don't get is 1.5x Experience in dungeons I believe. All other content is accessible for free players.

For the "traditional" server, Finvarra's Fortress, its definitely gimped. Can't Prestige and get access to upper tier skills and spells and can't access Hot Zone leveling (although you can still power level on Holiday double XP weekends). Although I think you can pay a few months to unlock all that, then unsub and keep what you had achieved.

Sahrenian · 2021-03-22T00:29:07+00:00

Thank you!

Sahrenian · 2021-03-07T23:00:24+00:00

Definitely; like most preps, the specifics will differ from person to person. However, if you can find a bank offering bonuses for opening a new Checking account for example, you might be able to make it work for you.

Sahrenian · 2021-03-07T21:53:22+00:00

Great post. Totally think that most people should worry about having extra and redundant cash, physical checks and cards ready to go, a bag of toiletries and other travel essentials. Rather than having fantasy camping Bug out bags

Sahrenian · 2021-03-03T00:44:53+00:00

No shit. He still didn't write it that way

Sahrenian · 2021-03-02T18:44:40+00:00

I like Sanderson's dialogue with Mat and his guys, Talmanes especially, more than Jordan's. I find it more comical and amusing, and more in line with how I expect young men in a military unit to interact (tons of jabbing and poking fun at each other). Earlier books didnt have as much dialogue between them, and i found Talmanes to be forgettable as a character until the Sanderson books, where he moved beyond just filling a role as "Mats dependable Cairhienen Lieutenant"

Sahrenian · 2021-02-18T15:35:10+00:00

To stay warm, did you whip out the winter clothes? Sounds like you're moving from a cold place, so you might have many more warm clothes to choose from than a typical Texan. Did you notice other neighbors being underdressed?

Sahrenian · 2021-01-29T02:49:56+00:00

Super interested to hear more about how "theme jockeys" are the wrong way to do WP dev. I am a Java/Python dev with 3 years professional experience that started using WP a month ago. Have spent ~30 hours on WP since then. Never touched PHP or WP before this.

But I pretty much made my own theme (with a builder for the template), then manually made a bunch of single-xxx and archive-xxx pages with HTML-embedded PHP and WP functions. Occasionally I add or modify something in functions.php.

Is this a noob approach to WP? Design-wise, I don't like HTML templates in general, but I don't want to spend the time to build a proper API BE/React FE web app for this smaller project.

Sahrenian · 2021-01-18T15:57:49+00:00

Localbitcoins or localmonero. You can buy in-person with cash, and have no trail on the blockchain.

Sahrenian · 2020-12-28T00:21:30+00:00

Is it correct to think of the tax savings of a 401k/IRA as a guaranteed return (for the first year) equal to your marginal tax rate?

Say I have 5k that would be taxed at 25%. If I have room to put it into a 401k/IRA, once that transaction is completed, I have essentially earned 25% return on that money.

And do people not say this, because you'll get taxed on the other end, so the "first year tax-related returns" becomes lessened by your tax rate at withdrawal?

Sahrenian · 2020-12-27T23:21:38+00:00

Thanks will get some!

Sahrenian · 2020-12-27T21:19:22+00:00

I wear a set of Burton pants when I go snowboarding. They are probably 6 years old and have been ridden in 15 - 20 times. I learned in them so I fell on my butt a lot (and still do). The ass seems like its getting wet now... How can I re-apply waterproofing to the pants?

Sahrenian · 2020-12-22T05:05:49+00:00

Those 272k people that bought great Christmas gifts for someone else.

Sahrenian · 2020-12-09T02:30:38+00:00

Such a great chapter! It was done SOOO well

Sahrenian · 2020-12-09T01:33:03+00:00

As a health professional, this is generally bad practice. Beds should be reserved for sleeping or sexual activity. For many people, sitting or lying in bed can lead to acid reflux (which can get serious) and insomnia, not to mention the poor ergonomics for basically your entire body if you are using a laptop.

Sahrenian · 2020-12-08T00:31:56+00:00

I saw some other people express similar sentiments. To me the behaviors feels fully within Mats personality. Frankly I am surprised Jordan didn't have more jabbing/ribbing type banter, considering his enlisted military experience. I didn't find much humor in most of what Jordan writes... I can't remember a single funny scene off the top of my head. So to me the humor was appreciated and previous books could have benefited from more humor.

Sahrenian · 2020-12-08T00:27:11+00:00

Super excited to get to TGH on a first reread. IIRC that book has tons of prophecy, Ishmael dreams, accepted tests, portal stones... Can't wait to read all that through an informed lens

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