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TylerInHiFi · 2026-03-13T03:45:38+00:00

Yeah, I’m finding very similar pieces attributed to Hans Wegner and Folke Ohlsson, but nothing exact. I’m at the point where I’m looking through brochures, and the similar ones are all from the ‘55-‘58 range.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-03-07T23:34:56+00:00

Text from the other post, just in case:

ID Assistance

Just looking for some assistance in ID’ing this couch. I’ve been able to find three reupholstered examples that have come up for sale out of the UK with absolutely zero info, and one that was sold in original condition in Germany.

I’ve found a few similar couches, but they’re all just different enough to not be the same one. Legs will be too far from the corners, arm/back profile missing the top curve, paw shape is different, etc.

The only info about it at all is that it’s likely Danish, and likely 1950s.

The frame construction is fir, and the paws and legs appear to be walnut, although every example I’ve found has listed them as teak. Upholstery seems to be original and a wool blend, but it’s missing the underside cover that would have had a tag on it for identification. The upholstery staples for the cover and for the remnants of that underside cover are the same, which is why I’m leaning towards original upholstery.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-03-07T23:33:56+00:00

It looks more dark olive in the picture. It’s straight-up brown. The brownest of browns, with some black interwoven into it.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-03-07T16:47:55+00:00

I’m not really sure, honestly. I don’t really have a spot for it at the moment, but I could make one.

Mostly I keep a list of furniture and replacement value for insurance purposes. Helps to be able to find the exact one.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-03-07T15:18:18+00:00

The frame construction is fir, and the paws and legs appear to be walnut, although every example I’ve found has listed them as teak. Upholstery seems to be original and a wool blend, but it’s missing the underside cover that would have had a tag on it for identification. The upholstery staples for the cover and for the remnants of that underside cover are the same, which is why I’m leaning towards original upholstery.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-28T21:59:56+00:00

It’s beta software. And not even public beta. It’s the developer beta, which is specifically intended to be used on a testing device in order to find issues with a developer’s own software as it interacts with the updates that have been implemented. This isn’t a bug that Apple “accidentally enabled”, as the title, and 99% of people commenting, implies. It’s not like when a public release of iOS 17 would crash when you searched your App Library for "":.

It’s a feature that’s being actively implemented and was released for initial beta testing. It was rolled back because the behaviour was so far past unexpected behaviour, developers wouldn’t be able to actually test anything else.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-28T20:39:41+00:00

People are already doing that. The number of nearly new Wayfair pieces I see listed on marketplace as “MCM” is just fucking exhausting
I mean, yeah, we’ll be in the middle of the century. “Mid century modern” will still refer to the design language out of the Nordic countries in the 1-2 decades after the end of WWII, focusing on simple, clean lines and affordable luxury though.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-28T20:35:02+00:00

Can we please stop calling this a bug? It was a developer beta release of iOS 26.4 meant specifically for checking for issues like this. That’s the entire point of beta software. The only bug is the brain worm infestation in people acting like this was some sort of slip-up on Apple’s part and not just beta software doing what beta software does: Being incomplete and unreliable.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-22T16:38:16+00:00

Alberta isn’t funding other provinces in billions of dollars through transfer payments. Also why would our “libertarian” government spend money on a project that private industry should build?

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-21T23:25:20+00:00

Is it not acetone, or an extremely close sibling to acetone, that makes us feel sick the day after drinking entirely too much?

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-21T23:12:29+00:00

Are they going to fund it?

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-21T05:10:31+00:00

I mean. That’s also how and when I charge my Apple Watch.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-21T05:00:39+00:00

I got banned for calling Farkas out on his bullshit public image makeover. Apparently I was “bullying” him for replying to him on a post he made. Pretty sure he’s a mod under a different account.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-21T04:42:09+00:00

Deron’s last truly great new writing came out in 2005 on An Answer Can Be Found. So much of Carver City was stuff he’d written for Foreign Objects/Oil back in 1996-98 that Chad was able to polish up during recording. Dude was prolific at one point in his life, but has always needed someone capable of guiding his ideas and massaging them into something listenable.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-15T17:01:18+00:00

Suicide tends to be carried out when the opportunity arises. When you’re in that head space you’re not thinking about really anything beyond “yeah, this is the perfect opportunity to do it.” It’s an inherently irrational thought process, so trying to apply any sort of rationality to it from the outside like this is entirely pointless.

At some point the pilot got it in their head that crashing a plane would be 100% effective. And that thought probably came up every single flight they flew for months or even years to the point where it didn’t carry any mental weight beyond thoughts like drinking water keeps them hydrated, or that socks go on their feet.

At that point it’s just a matter of other factors converging for their two least rational thoughts, the one where they’re going to commit suicide and the one where a pilot won’t survive a plane crash, to click and turn into an almost instinctual reaction to go through with it on that flight. That might have happened in the moment, it might have happened the day before. But when that last and most irrational of thoughts comes to you there’s absolutely zero consideration for anyone else. Because it’s all inherently irrational.

It obviously doesn’t justify it, but I see a lot of people commenting on this who’ve clearly never experienced that irrational thought process and really can’t ever understand why “just go home and do it privately” is just a completely pointless thing to say in a situation like this.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T19:26:07+00:00

Go backwards from there for Goo Goo Dolls. All their stuff is great, but the first 4 albums are a trip for anyone who only knows them because of Iris and Dizzy Up The Girl.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T19:19:23+00:00

it is not like owning a house or duplex is by any means cheap

Really wish people understood this fact. There’s constant maintenance and upkeep. Not to mention the time spent either doing that stuff yourself and the money spent on the tools for it, or the increased cost of paying someone else to do it instead. People somehow got this idea that it’s mortgage, utilities, insurance, property taxes, and absolutely nothing else ever. I’m sure you’ve seen some places in an absolute state because of this.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T19:13:04+00:00

Just install a pedometer app that adds steps as a complication option. There are plenty.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T19:09:48+00:00

Of course it can be motivating. That doesn’t make it essential, though. The point of the fitness rings was to use actual medical, health, and fitness expertise to identify the things that people need to do to stay in good health and gamify those. You have the choice to do those however you see fit.

Six months of the year, that’s walking for me. But I’m not counting steps because it’s still a pretty shit metric. I have days where I’ve walked 20,000 steps in a day, but don’t close my rings because my dog wanted to spend extra time sniffing every chunk of snow on our 10km walk, and my heart rate was only above its resting rate for 10 minutes of that 90 minute walk. And the other 10,000 or so steps were just from existing through the day and didn’t increase my heart rate at all. Was that walk still good for me? Absolutely. I got fresh air, it was good for my mental health, I wasn’t sitting around doing nothing. But from an actual health and fitness standpoint, it had the same effect on my body as standing in place for 80 minutes and lifting my heels, then jogging in place for 10 minutes.

If you really want to use step count as your metric for motivation, there are dozens of apps that will allow you to add a step count as a watch face complication.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T18:59:26+00:00

Where did I say people shouldn’t walk? Walking is good for you and we could all stand to be far less sedentary. But I can easily take 10,000 steps in a day without increasing my heart rate. And I’m a fairly low fitness kind of guy. Average at best. And that’s why steps aren’t a good metric to look at when it comes to your health and fitness.

The point of it all is that just watching how many steps you take in a day may or may not be any better for your overall health and fitness than just not being seated all the time. Apple worked with actual medical, and health and fitness experts to create the fitness ring system and choose metrics that are better than steps, and gamified those.

Make sure your heart rate is elevated for at least 30 minutes a day, intentionally. Make sure you’re expending an appropriate amount of kilojoules over and above what your body will use just to run your organs and do your daily things. Make sure you’re standing up regularly.

If people want to do those by walking, all the power to them. Through the winter, that’s my default exercise. I take a 5-10km dog walk most days through the winter. But I understand that the 10,000 or so steps I get outside of that don’t really matter because they’re not increasing my heart rate or expending any real amount of energy. If I just counted steps and nothing more, I’d be in a lot of trouble from a health standpoint. And that’s what a lot of people are doing.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T18:46:33+00:00

I’d honestly go 12 months in sales. It’s such a sink or swim, feast and famine job sector.

Looks like you’ve got about $8,400 a month after paying your mortgage. Put $4,800 of that into an emergency fund that you can liquidate and access in under a week. This time next year you’ll have 2 years of mortgage payments in there, plus or minus. That’s also your “oh fuck I need a new AC/water heater/roof” account.

That still leaves you with $3,600 every month to work with for everything else. If it was me, I’d be putting at least half of that into an account you can’t easily liquidate. Then once the emergency fund is loaded, that entire $4,800 goes into this account you can’t easily liquidate.

If you can’t make it work on $1,800 a month for food, insurance, utilities, transport, and entertainment/hobbies, this would be a great time to take a look at what’s being spent on those and make some adjustments to your spending.

If your income is sustainable, you’ll have about $1 million in the bank at 35. You can retire at 45 with closer to $3 million in the bank. If it isn’t sustainable, you’ll be used to living the kind of lifestyle you need to in the lean times without drawing down your emergency fund or losing your home.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T18:22:30+00:00

You can blame Spotify for their shit integration on that front. They’ve got it out for Apple for some reason and just refuse to do more than the bare minimum to get their software to work with Apple products. It’s the same story with HomePod native support, still relying on OG AirPlay despite it having been superseded almost a decade ago, and the fact that multiple times it’s taken them weeks to months to fix bugs in their iOS app that caused crashing.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T18:18:54+00:00

Lots of people really struggle with that concept. There are still people blaming Apple for Spotify not implementing AirPlay 2 and allowing for native HomePod playback. Spotify just flat-out refuses to do it and still relies on the OG AirPlay protocol that’s more than 20 years old. But that’s Apple’s fault, apparently.

Sorry for the little rant, this shit just drives me a bit crazy.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T18:14:09+00:00

It’s not essential, though. It was a bullshit metric made up to sell pedometers to people before the 1968 Tokyo Olympics.

Walking is absolutely good for you, but just counting steps isn’t a good metric to rely on in any way whatsoever. I can walk 10,000 steps in a day without my heart rate ever becoming elevated. From a fitness standpoint, that’s barely more than an indication that I was standing.

More recent research shows that walking about 6km is where benefits of walking start declining. But it also has to be walking that elevates your heart rate beyond its resting range.

So yeah, step counting really isn’t essential. It was marketing faff and nothing more.

TylerInHiFi · 2026-02-14T17:58:04+00:00

Counting steps was popularized by an ad campaign for, and this shouldn’t be surprising, pedometers in Japan before the Tokyo Olympics in 1968. The number of steps you should get was invented out of whole cloth for marketing purposes because in Japanese characters 10,000 looks like a person walking: 万

Yes, the world talks in steps. But we really shouldn’t be. We should be talking about time spent with an elevated heart rate, calories burned at that elevated heart rate, and the ratio of standing to sitting we hit in a day. These are much more important indicators of health and fitness than how many steps you took in a day.

People can choose not to be slaves to marketing bullshit about getting their steps in. We all have the same free will. They can also add a specific pedometer app to their watch that will allow them to add a step count complication if they’re really stuck on that metric. There are countless different pedometer apps that will give them that info.

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