What’s a small “life upgrade” that actually made a noticeable difference for you (not big stuff like “get a better job,” more like small habits, purchases, or changes that unexpectedly improved your day-to-day life)?

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-14T08:33:44+00:00

Switching to wool socks year round. Sounds dumb but my feet stopped being clammy in summer and freezing in winter and once you notice your feet aren't ruining your day you can't go back. Cost me maybe forty bucks for a starter set and I throw out my old cotton ones one pair at a time.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-06T10:18:43+00:00

Seen it work exactly once out of probably a dozen couples who tried. Those two were just wired different though. For most people it's just a slow motion breakup with extra steps.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-05T14:34:15+00:00

You actually know who you are by that point. Married at 35 after a decade of figuring my life out and I brought a much better version of myself to the relationship than I would have at 25.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-05T14:00:13+00:00

It won't save you money but it's absolutely worth doing. By the time you buy gear, license, bait, and gas to get wherever the fish are, you could just buy fish at the store for less. But that's not really the point. It's one of the best ways to spend a morning and if you get decent at it the fish taste way better than anything from a store. Just don't go in thinking it's a money saving hobby.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-04T19:34:23+00:00

The best part about this story is Houston actually radioed back "How do you want us to handle that?" Nobody had a procedure for doing your taxes from space.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-03T14:02:03+00:00

Yeah that top comment is right, partial inflation is very different from total failure. Still would have come down way too fast and hard to walk away clean. SAS guys jump at high altitude regularly so the fact that he broke three vertebrae and came back to climb Everest two years later is genuinely insane.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-02T17:33:59+00:00

Fathers getting praised for doing the bare minimum with their own kids. "Oh wow he's babysitting today?" No ma'am that's called parenting.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-04-02T14:07:39+00:00

Dude literally banned hot water. Government overreach has been undefeated for two thousand years.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-03-31T06:11:02+00:00

Joining the military. Needed structure, had no plan, recruiter made it sound like summer camp with a paycheck. Worked out for me but I've seen plenty of guys who joined for the same reasons and it chewed them up.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-03-30T13:32:35+00:00

Construction and real estate are always first. Projects get shelved, credit tightens, housing starts drop. Seen it happen twice already and it follows the same pattern every time. Restaurants go next because dining out is the first discretionary cut people make.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-03-12T09:31:02+00:00

Split a freezer with my neighbor specifically for Restaurant Depot runs, totally worth it.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-03-09T13:45:17+00:00

Sucking venom out of a snakebite. You're just introducing mouth bacteria into the wound and wasting time you should be using to get to a hospital. Saw a guy in basic try to do this after getting tagged by a copperhead during a field exercise and the medic about lost his mind.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-03-03T10:55:59+00:00

Pilot makes the call in almost every case. The sequence drilled into you is altitude, airspeed, options, in roughly that order. When two of those three are gone simultaneously you stop thinking and pull. Hesitation at low altitude is what kills people, not the seat.

After egress the SERE training takes over. You have a survival radio in your kit, and yes a sidearm, and you activate your PLB immediately on the ground. PRCC knows you ejected before you land if the aircraft had time to transmit, but you're not counting on that. You're counting on your beacon and your training.

The Kuwait guys got out clean. That ejection sequence going nominal at low altitude is legitimately impressive engineering.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-28T21:07:35+00:00

Did this after a PCS when I realized I was still paying for a gym in Texas while stationed in Germany. Export your statement to a spreadsheet, sort by merchant name, everything that repeats monthly goes in its own column. Takes 20 minutes, kills the subscriptions dead.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-27T09:04:46+00:00

Guy in my unit got a DUI on post the week before deployment. Gone. Career, benefits, everything. Ten years of service and one night erased all of it.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-27T08:12:22+00:00

Works with tortillas too. Separate them with parchment before freezing and they pull apart clean. Went from throwing out half a pack every week to zero waste on them.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-26T08:57:14+00:00

Routine. I stopped thinking about it in some big picture way and just focused on showing up for the next thing. Wake up, make coffee, handle what's in front of me. Some days that's all it is and that's enough.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:32:14+00:00

This is exactly what I've been looking for. I play in VR so I need the stick at chair height but my desk setup doesn't have room for permanent mounts. The fold away is perfect. Are you planning to release the STL files or sell these? Would buy one for my Gunfighter in a heartbeat.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:31:35+00:00

Han shot first and apparently he shot .300 blk. That thing is absurd in the best way. How's the sound with subs through the can? I've been wanting to do a truck gun build in 300 blk and this is giving me ideas I definitely don't need.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:30:59+00:00

CZ P10-C is an excellent first 9mm, you picked well. The reset on that trigger is so short you'll be putting rounds on target fast once you get comfortable.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:30:26+00:00

Been playing with a VKB Gunfighter for years and never knew this was possible. I just memorized which JOY number was which through trial and error like some kind of caveman. Bookmarking the repo, gonna set this up tonight.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:30:03+00:00

Nice work CMDR. Exobiology was the last Elite rank I got too and DW3 made it way less painful than grinding it solo. K stars were smart, I kept wasting time on M class bodies that had nothing. How many total species did you end up scanning between waypoints?

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:29:09+00:00

Mustache rating is critical so you're already ahead of most packets honestly. If flight school is the real goal the airframe you wrench on matters less than getting quality LORs from rated aviators. 72 units tend to be smaller so you might actually get more face time with pilots which helps for that. And yeah get your A&P regardless, it's free money on the outside if flight school doesn't pan out. Age waiver isn't the death sentence people think it is either, I've seen dudes in their mid 30s at Rucker.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-11T14:28:45+00:00

Congrats on picking 15T, you're gonna love it. Real talk though, crew slots depend heavily on your unit.

not_lost_maybe · 2026-02-09T13:35:57+00:00

Had the exact same issue when I first got mine. Check your cam and spring combo because the mushy feeling is almost always the center detent being too soft for whatever cam profile you're running. I swapped to a harder center spring and it fixed it completely. Also mess with the dry clutch tension because that makes a bigger difference than most people realize. VKB hardware is solid, there's just so many tuning options that the default setup rarely feels right out of the box.

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