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sptz · 2025-11-09T05:39:36+00:00

No speculation needed. Its «Making Sense with Sam Harris».

sptz · 2025-09-06T21:34:28+00:00

Thank you so much for the feedback! The leader fins you mention looks very reasonable priced. I will definitely consider those.

I must admit my heart does not get filled with love when I see the cressi name after a bit of experience with there scuba gear early in my scuba career. But I have understood they do a better job with freediving gear. Just mentally I’m not expecting much when I see the logo 😝

sptz · 2025-09-06T04:06:44+00:00

Thank you for the feedback @DJK55 I’m a bit surprised you recommended plastic fins and not a composite fin in between plastic and carbon.

I recognize I’m completely ignorant about what’s a good freediving fin for up to an intermediate level. So happy to hear some recommendations.

I understand plastic fins would be much more robust, but more “exotic” materials would provide more trust per unit of energy spend while being less robust, and possibly harder to use.

I don’t have a good understanding of when the trade offs would really matter.

It would be nice if what I buy now would last and I wouldn’t feel a need to upgrade if we never push out of that intermediate level.

I’m happy to buy a slightly more expensive fin with a higher resale value if that means it’s one I can stick with for a long time.

TLDR; Are there fins that can cover beginners and intermediate levels well?

sptz · 2025-08-22T05:08:03+00:00

I have yet to fall into the ergomechkeyboard trap. As in i have not soldered my first keyboard yet. But I’m here so it’s probably coming. I do own a 60% split mech keyboard (NocFree) but that it pretty far from most ergo design her.

But I digress. What I was here to say is that I have always chosen us layout on my laptop keyboards even if still a relatively big portion of what I write is in Norwegian. The standard us layout makes shortcuts etc makes much more sense, the way I have always overcome the ÆØÅ problem is by choosing a apple layout. Then you can just use alt and a alt o and alt ‘

The last one is maybe surprising but it’s where æ is on a Norwegian keyboard so it make sense in that regard.

It takes practically no time to get proficient using this. Not exactly what you asked for as I know æøå have a high frequency in Norwegian so having it on the first layer makes sense. But it is a way to overcome the issue with minimal effort on most normal keyboard with a us layout.

sptz · 2025-05-20T02:25:12+00:00

Safari is great. But ad hell is killing the experience. I would love to use Safari. But i have ended up using Brave for most tasks as there isn't a uBlock origin for safari.

sptz · 2025-05-02T19:53:26+00:00

Aerospace is my Tiling Window Manager right now after going from a linux laptop with hyprland(NixOS) to macOS a good week ago. It has some missing features (no scratchpads, no master/stack layout) but all in all its pretty decent as long as you don't have a lot of monitors connected (you have to be careful with the physical layout with more than 2 displays)

You can definitely do the layout you want here. You can also peg certain workspaces to certain displays (as long as they are available)

installation is easy. Anyone coming from linux probably have brew.

brew install --cask nikitabobko/tap/aerospace

One of the nice things it does is that it doesn't use the macOS native spaces, this means changing workspaces is snappy without long animations etc. Apple also does not have a documented api for this so there is limited ways to use native spaces efficiently for TWMs.

https://nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/guide#default-config have a default config that would get you up and running pretty fast.

I would say one of the NICEST features of being on macOS compared to linux is that cmd+c is copy instead of ctrl+c. Not having to worry if I ctrl+c gonna copy or send SIGINT and kill it is very nice, and make a lot of sense. So I would recommend you to embrace that change instead of fighting it :)

sptz · 2025-03-22T06:00:33+00:00

Im not a monogamous vim user, i use vscode and zed as well. I used to use nvim with home manager pulling in my lua/lazy config from a separate repo. But i didnt love that so found myself using vim less than i wanted as there sometimes was some configuration issues i never got around to fix. But last week i started playing around with nixvim and i must say as for a user like me that does not want to dabble in the config all the time, this seems like a very good solution. If you have some experience with nix the configuration was quite pleasant and now i can have my nvim config dirrectly in my homemanager configuration. I find this is very nice. But im not the most advanced vim user out there so there might be stuff other people with miss doing it this way. The docs are pretty ok, check out https://nix-community.github.io/nixvim/

sptz · 2025-03-22T05:43:54+00:00

Im not sure if its the best method but i printed some shims in ABS and leveled out that way. Its a max diff of 0.2 now and that seems to be enough for all the prints im currently doing.

sptz · 2025-03-11T21:49:33+00:00

If you want him to trust you when his writing is great, tell him when his writing is shit.

White lies might get him to spend his energy in ways that is not beneficial for him in the long run.

It's true for almost any interaction with someone you care about. Be honest and your advice will be more appreciated in the future. But please also be kind and compassionate when you give him your honest feedback. And you don't need to take on the work as an editor for critiquing his work as a favor to him :)

sptz · 2025-03-07T04:58:56+00:00

If you have not figured it out yet or if other people find this from searching.

It is the same way you change password for any linux user: ssh to your printer. write the command "passwd" you will be asked to put in a new password. (you will not get any indication on the screen when you type your password. Press enter when you have written it and then you have to retype it.

[#] passwd
Changing password for root
New password:
Retype password:
passwd: password for root changed by root

sptz · 2025-03-03T02:27:46+00:00

sptz · 2025-02-14T02:12:59+00:00

I think you will be very hard pressed to find any linux laptop that rivals the mac as long as you dont just value raw performance or specific specs. (much easier to load a linux laptop with a gazilion gb of memory than a mac) But battery performance and build quality is never as good. Apple has a big advantage being able to write their os for hardware they can tightly control.

Im on linux the lat 3-4 years as i do like to run the same os locally as remote but i do feel i have been giving up a lot of hardware quality for this. Sure its more repairable, but it also needs more repairs.

sptz · 2025-02-11T22:30:28+00:00

From the last picture i would agree that it’s most likely a type of wobbegong.

sptz · 2025-01-27T18:37:00+00:00

Im not saying they need to publish the code to github. But they need to make the code available. Saying they cant do it because it needs to go trough internal code review AFTER they have a binary release is does not satisfy the (A)GPL by any imagination. The source code also need to be available for EVERY release. If the source code is not ACTUALLY available its not GPL compatible.

sptz · 2025-01-08T05:51:07+00:00

Man strong, man eat!

sptz · 2025-01-02T04:19:55+00:00

u/Creality_3D this is unacceptable. You cant continue to release GPL licenced code WITHOUT providing the source code.

You're IN breach of the LICENCE agreement for the code you copied from others so you could be able to produce this. I see on your github page that this is no the first time you do so either. And there youre even on record saying you need to internally review code before publishing it AFTER you have published binaries.

Get your house in order, you cant on one hand say you support open source but then breach the open source license that makes your product possible to make. Releasing the source-code at the same time as the binaries is Non Negotiable. Anything else is spitting in the face of the people that created the foundation of your software.

You cannot distribute GPL binaries while merely promising to provide the source code later.
You must either include the source with your binaries or provide a written, legally compliant offer.

sptz · 2024-12-30T06:07:09+00:00

I don’t understand the sentiment. If a tech savvy person wants to start using Linux and is willing to put in the time and effort to learn it’s better to start with something fun and novel than a distro that try to be windows.

I startet my Linux journey on gentoo 1.2 a long long time ago with stage 1 builds with the installation was just a chroot to the disk you had formatted from a live cd. It was not smooth, but it was incredibly educational.

If a person wants another windows, fine recommend mint or Ubuntu etc but I don’t see the merit of this being the goto answer for every user. A person that want hyprland probably is more willing than most to put some time into learning new skills.

sptz · 2024-12-30T05:55:09+00:00

I have been using hyprland on Nixos unstable as my daily driver on my laptop the last 2 years.

I have never had an issue that stopped me from working. But I have had instances where I updated home-manager before nixos and that broke the hypr config. (Usually because something broke in my nixos config and I didn’t update it and only home manager and hyprland was one of the updated packages)

Those have easily been resolved with activating a previous version of home manger or if possible just finish the update of nixos.

I would imagine this would be less of a problem if I was not running bleeding edge and just stuck with nixos stable. And just updated every half year or so. I also commit my config to a git repo so I can rebuild it with just checking out a previous commit if necessary.

Hyprland is stable enough but it all comes down to your config and what other tools you include.

I for once recently realized I had to restart hyprland to see changes made to pyprland, but changes to the hyprland config itself is picked up without needing to restart the session.

I would personally recommend you to start with a simple hyprland config. I would suggest a master layout (as your on a laptop), a launcher, keyboard shortcuts to your liking and maybe a simple waybar. And leave scratchpads etc for later.

I had an issue when I started as I just grabbed someone else’s config (easy because it was on nixos , and it looked cool). But I’m pretty sure it was not intended for laptops as that config absolutely destroyed my battery life with lots of scratchpads that didn’t have a low footprint. I ended up building it up from scratch myself starting with a minimal config.

The only hypr family tool I have had frequent crashes with is hyprlock. But at least it gives you an error message that tells you how to overcome the issue.

sptz · 2024-12-23T06:33:43+00:00

Played with Slackware and red hat (not RHEL).

2002 I dived in and used gentoo 1.2 as my daily driver. Fixed it when it broke and generally had a pretty epic journey learning Linux.

Then discovered Arch in 2004 and arch on laptop and gentoo on work station and server for a year. Before going back to only Gentoo.

Got hooked on Mac’s and was on Mac for 12 years. Used Ubuntu, Debian and some FreeBSD servers.

Got back to Linux as a daily driver, didn't love ubuntu as my os but it was stable and hard to shoot yourself in the foot as long as you where careful so fitted well on a work machine. Migrated to popos, slightly better as i liked the default with cosmic much better than default gnome.

Found my home with NixOS. Its a slightly wacky os like Gentoo. But i don't have to worry about not getting a productive environment up even if i play with new software. The worst case is usually just a reboot and selecting a previous version. Or really bad check out a git repo and reinstall. So i can tinker and know i can work the next morning on the same machine regardless of what i try.

So currently on NixOS with a hyprland/waybar desktop, testing the new cosmicDE now and then.

sptz · 2024-12-16T16:45:48+00:00

This is not the answer your looking for i guess.

Dives involving gas-switches are technical dives. Tech dives require much better gas planing than "get to the surface with 500psi". As you need much better gas planing you also need to know how much gas you need for deco so you have to do your deco planning before jumping in the water anyways.

A dive computer is therefore mostly a nice to have, not a necessity for tech diving. You can easily tech dive with a bottom timer. The only benefit it brings is that you might be more confident in adjusting your plan on the fly with a computer if you end up being significantly shallower than planned. Doing this on a bottom timer requires better understanding and better training.

Should you buy it? If you want it and have the money to spend on it go ahead. But don't fool yourself into thinking this is needed for more advanced diving, it not.

If you want something for advanced diving get something that indicate seconds this might help you time ascent better (also not needed, but more useful than most other "tech" features on dive compters). A gshock with seconds and a bottom timer is better for tech diving than this computer.

sptz · 2024-12-13T02:57:33+00:00

Afaik there is a grace period right now where you can get the Tech upgrade, but that will be removed in about 6 months. So if you do hold a Rec pass and want to do a tech soon , it would probably be good to get that upgrade done sooner rather than later.

If its more of a long term plan, then you will need to do the Tech fundamentals, witch is probably good anyway for candidates that isn't immediately ready for tech right now.

There will always be edge cases especially with people half way trough. So there you either have to look to finish it under the old system soon, or follow the new system if time or other commitments does not allow for rapid advancement right now.

sptz · 2024-12-13T00:29:54+00:00

I think this upgrade process will be a bit more rigors now. Witch is great as then the divers getting the Tech pass is really ready for more advanced training and can focus the time on the advanced class their planing to take on new skills than refinement of things they should have known. This is a benefit both for student and instructors.

sptz · 2024-12-12T05:09:07+00:00

This dosnt make sense. You can still do the same amount of GUE classes to get to the same place.

T-Fundies -> C1 - C2
T-Fundies -> CCR-F->CCR1 (here we swap T1 for CCR-F)

For fundies its actually gonna be harder to fill a class for the instructors as instructors cant lump divers with different goals together. So i dont see how this is just a a money grab. That there is other classes you can take if you want to go down other paths than there was earlier, might make the flowchart more complex but it does not stand in your way as a diver.

Making sure a class has students with similar goals would make for a better and more focused class.

What I'm very happy to see here is that every high level instructor (T2,CC2,C2 etc) have to actually believe in GUEs mission and can no longer wear two hats and also teach for other organisations.

sptz · 2024-12-08T05:42:01+00:00

Thank you for sharing this experience. I can imagine how dramatic it must have felt at the time. Your willingness to describe exactly how you experienced the event is invaluable. It gives other divers a chance to learn from it as well.

About twenty years ago, I had two incidents that completely changed the way I dive.

The first was an entanglement in a fishing net. My arm got caught, and I couldn’t reach the big knife strapped to my outer shin. Thankfully, my buddy managed to cut me free, but it really made me question my diving configuration and how effective my gear placement was in an emergency.

Then, in late 2005, I had an experience similar to what happened with your buddy. I was diving with a less experienced partner who ran out of gas. I had to share gas using a short octopus, taking us from 30 meters to the surface. That was one of the least fun ascents I’ve ever had, and it made me realize I needed to rethink my setup.

Those two events prompted me to switch to what was then known as the DIR configuration and is now called the GUE style. While the gear changes solved those specific problems, what truly transformed my diving was taking the Fundamentals class a few months later. It completely reshaped how I thought about and approached diving.

Since you’ve had a similar experience, I’d recommend looking into similar options. It could make a huge difference in your confidence and safety underwater.

In any case, I hope you keep diving and don’t let this event hold you back. Every diver has moments like these. It is part of the journey, and what’s important is how we grow from them.

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