bitofarambler
@bitofarambler@crazypeople.online
I like to travel, learn and tell stories
- Comment on Just work a little harder 6 days ago:
Got to be one that takes!
- Comment on Just work a little harder 6 days ago:
Good idea, thanks.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 6 days ago:
Yep. There are no active travel communities on the fediverse, and especially at a time when so many people are talking about living abroad, there should be a resource available for them.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 6 days ago:
Travel community, I understand less than a step above nothing on the backend of lemmy.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 6 days ago:
Fixed, thanks.
- Comment on Just work a little harder 1 week ago:
Hi US Americans, I’ve been traveling for 15 years ish and it is an absolutely dynamite financial decision in terms of saving money and accruing capital.
If you’re a fluent English speaker, you have a guaranteed job with nearly 2 billion English students looking to pay you $10 to $100 per hour for a skill you’ve been practicing your whole life.
If you want any info/details/context, ask here, the travel community, or message me.
- Comment on Do crew have cabins below decks on short-distance ferries? 1 week ago:
A lot of Thai crew have hammocks on their boats they sleep in.
Most of them left their boats to go home at sunset, but I saw people sleeping in boat hammocks many times overnight.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
The world is muvh, much bigger than one sparsely populated country, and there are far more important metrics than the physical size of the US.
Metrics like population, geographic isolation, health care, political instability, violent crime, countless others that define a country, mark the US as an entity to be safely disregarded.
Thailand passed the US in health care years ago, China passed the US in renewable and next-gen tech, not to mention manufacturing, most countries citizens enjoy much more robust civil rights.
Yes, the physical country is large, but the US is s small, insecure, violent pocket of the world that people don’t need to pay nearly as much attention to as its groupies demand.
The US looks very tiny from out here, and even tinier from the inside after seeing some of the rest of the world.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 2 weeks ago:
I get it, I was shocked when I looked it up. Extremely disappointing
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 2 weeks ago:
Michelin inspectors will not visit cities unless the city registers with Michelin, which carries high, recurring fees.
That’s why many prominent cities have zero Michelin star restaurants, because they won’t pay the fees(tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the city) that Michelin demands for their stars.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 2 weeks ago:
They’re so highly valued because advertising and elitism works.
The Michelin Brothers thought it would be good advertising for their tire company, and it was, and it kind of became its own thing but stars are still owned and operated by Michelin the tire company.
Important to note that beyond it being owned by a tire company, they don’t even give stars to the best restaurants, only restaurants that guy certain prestige requirements that pay Michelin to give them a star.
Other tire companies don’t pursue the same scam because Michelin is the front runner, and it obviously doesn’t tie in to car accessories very heavily, so there’s not much incentive for other tire companies to do the same thing, especially when it’s basically just a “pay me $400,000 for a fake gold star racket”.
I looked into this after watching the bear, when they were talking about Michelin stars, and then I found out the extent of Michelin star chicanery.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
My information does not require trust; it’s all based on publicly available resources.
Go ahead, confirm IRS form 2555 for yourself.
Ass traveler, I have a travel community, nothing strange about that
I haven’t tried to sell a thing, and I have months of legitimate conversation, travel advice and information publicly available for scrutiny.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
I hear you and understand your resignation; tender despair is very common and the result of those whirlwind insubstantial threats and proclamations.
You don’t have to leave your spite behind, most don’t, and I’m not telling you to; I’m letting people know that if they want to live for themselves and others rather than dying for their enemies, it’s possible and I’m here to help.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I appreciate simple, correct solutions and I understand why emotional investment and habit makes those solutions difficult to accept and implement.
If you take a step outside of your situation, it will quickly become apparent that the grip you believe others hold you in is largely insubstantial and based on empty proclamations and threats. Magnates can plead for your attention, but you don’t have to give it to them(climb a mountain, play video games), your government can scream for your taxes and you don’t have to hand them over(IRS form 2555, foreign earned income exclusion).
The world is huge and no matter how important someone demands you think they are, they’re wrong.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
There are no failsafe safety assurances anywhere, but some places are safer and more comfortable than others.
I’m originally from the US and have mostly been living abroad for over a decade since I left over many of the issues US Americans still deal with today
Perspective on the US is much more clear from the outside.
If you’d like to live abroad, I can definitely help you do that with information and advice, I’ve helped several other Americans move abroad.
tldr is get a passport, secure $500 USD in monthly income (English teaching is currently in high demand), buy a plane ticket.
Someone from the US I’ve been offering advice to this year literally left the US today based on that tldr.
I’m very happy to go into details and supply more context for anybody interested in living abroad.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Yup, that’s basically what has happened.
Political leaders and journalists have visited and done “welfare checks” on the US, and came to the same conclusions you just have.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
The US looks bigger and more influential from the inside. Its tantrums look tiny and rambunctious from out here.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Do yu mean Russia? Their attacks have resulted in external military buildup near borders, NATO assurances, local military alliances.
Russia’s aggression directly harms and threatens other nearby countries.
Different measures for different circumstances.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
There are 200 countries and the US is one relatively small, isolated pocket making terrible decisions and hurting themselves. Many countries hurt themselves and the US is just one of them.
US problems benefit their rivals immensely and is influencing their allies to become more independent and form new local alliances, there’s no benefit to anyone to long jump into one isolated hornet’s nest.
Sanctions are specifically difficult against the US because 1) they’re largely hurting themselves, most countries don’t agree the US is doing the wrong thing about Palestine/ foreign/other policy to warrant sanctions and 2) the US has so much, albeit dwindling, legacy political and financial/banking influence that sanctions won’t make much of an impact.
If your dog starts defecating on the floor and rolling around in it, you clean up your dog.
If your neighbor starts defecating on their floor and rolling around in it, well…
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine that some of its lessons won’t stick with her.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 3 weeks ago:
Bluey and Bob’s Burgers are both amazing for healthy family dynamics, and Bob’s burgers can be so funny I’ve cried laughing. Oh, the camping episode!
But how much the parents care for their children and each other is also extremely touching.
Bluey has such a healthy, compassionate family dynamic I was confused watching it for the first time.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 4 weeks ago:
Rights of nature laws have been rapidly expanding for a couple decades now, have stopped massive deforestation and environmental exploitation in legal cases where nature advocates legally argue for and sue on behalf of the rights of nature.
So not exactly like murder, but in 40 countries nature can legally fight back.
Rights of nature aren’t popular yet because we aren’t living at the end of history where everything has been worked out, most people are still struggling to survive, countries pop in and out of existence, a huge percentage of the world is currently officially at war while there are countless unofficial armed conflicts elsewhere.
An active minority of Maslow- secure, aware people have only just started to figure out how important the environment is and how to protect it in a resource-greedy world where the priority is immmediate profit over longevity.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 2 months ago:
Roach motels(pic when the situation becomes unmanageable.
From what you’re describing, the roaches are probably laying eggs and living inside rotted wood or old furniture.
I’m not a fan of fumigation since it is expensive, rarely works anywhere near 100%, and uses toxic chemicals, so it makes your house dirty and then the roaches are back in a couple weeks.
Buy a 12 pack of these glue traps with packaged bait, put one in the area of each room you see the most roaches, somewhere dark, under furniture or out of sight.
You don’t need more than one per room. Check them daily in the beginning, replace them when they are one layer full of roaches trapped in the adhesive.
You will have a whole bunch of live roaches you can feed to your chameleon and you will notice the roach infestation going down rather drastically. They catch young and old roaches with equally effect.
Very simple traps, and I’ve always found them to work very well.
I recommend buying the highest rated variety of the trap below with the highest amount of people who have bought it before.
- Comment on Oh crap. 3 months ago:
Got it. Thanks.
What a job.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I did these in China.
4 first, poor had nothing, moved to teach English. It was fine, I paid for things with cash, I had a debit card to use the ATMs.
And up until that point I still didn’t have any phone, so I climbed the hills behind the apartment I was renting and just walked around town learning stuff, trying for, living life.
Then I got a dumphone, which changed little except I could hang out with close friends from the school but usually we coordinated when we work together in the school anyway, so there was very little change with a dumb phone.
Then I bought a laptop and I could study Rosetta Stone and watch TV/movies.
eventually I got a smartphone and then I could start dating in the modern world. I dated in China before that through organic meetups, but I didn’t realize how far into the digital age dating head lapped until I got a smartphone and used all the apps.
It’s very feasible and I’ll say a lot less stressful to not have a phone, but it’s not as anxious-fun, and I do like looking stuff up all the time and having gigabytes of music in my pocket.
which reminds me before I had a laptop or smartphone, I bought a mini iPod in China and used one of the school computers to load it up with music.
Shoot that was a revolution for me, I loved the little clip on the back and how late it was.
How bad would it be for your social life?
I’d say that without the tech you won’t make new connections as easily on a surface level, but whenever an unteched person does get into a conversation, their side of the conversation tends to be a bit more well thought out and significant.
You’ll also put more work into the real life relationship since you don’t have a hundred virtual relationships vying for your attention on your phone.
So it would probably help your social life, by my metrics.
- Comment on Oh crap. 3 months ago:
More than other fish?
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 3 months ago:
- Comment on Did google brick my s21 ultra? 3 months ago:
I agree on both points about graphene, but I don’t think graphene makes Google open software; if you removed all of the pages of a trump biography and put in the pages of LOTR, you would probably enjoy the book immeasurably more, but that wouldn’t make the removed pages any good.
You’re right, it is funny how easy it is to remove Google from Google devices.
You can flash custom ROMs on the g54; I haven’t done it yet because I like the moto system so far, basically how barebones and functional it is.
The annoyances will have to build up before I replace anything. So far the only one I found is in speech to text, the microphone dings when it turns on and I can’t turn the sound off. Yet…
I can live with that though, this thing is so much faster, more responsive and customizable than my pixel that I haven’t noticed any of the flaws yet.
I have written out a very long list of all my problems with the pixel I had and this thing basically has none of them so far that I’ve found.
Motorola was the last company I looked at while I was researching new phones, but they are certain to be near the front of the line next time I have to jump on the merry-go-round.
Ha, KingoRoot is what worked for my HTC One! I was shocked and after I got rid of all the bloat it was like a new phone.
Facebook is such a hog.
- Comment on Did google brick my s21 ultra? 3 months ago:
Super cool of them.
I definitely wouldn’t go over to apple, they’re the same way in terms of a closed environment kind of thing.
Google is full of shit metoo; I had a pixel and it was the most infuriating phone I’ve ever had, I felt like I had been tricked into an apple (or apparently Samsung).
I got a Motorola g54 recently new for 150 bucks: almost no bloatware, easy to uninstall the few apps that there are, including Facebook, disable animations and the phones operations are fast, expandable storage, esim, there’s all the features and way less bs for a much lower price.
Moto has pricier options with more stuff, but this phone cost… 25% of the pixel 6 at launch for more storage and ram, higher refresh rate, and I already like it a lot better after a couple days than I ever liked the pixel because of their closed hardware and software environment.
And the poor build quality, I had to replace my pixel and then the second one had something rattling around inside and I just figured it wasn’t even worth waiting for them to send a third piece of shit out.
Sorry, since we’re ranting, I’m so happy to have parted ways with the pixel.
I’ll look into the Samsung thing a bit more when I have time.
I bricked htcs and an oppo and there’s always some way around those startup loops, especially if the phone is otherwise functional and it’s just one barrier to work your way around.
It looks like that FRP thing has a lot of videos and threads about it, I’d be shocked if somebody hasn’t figured it out.
And droidkit I was thinking of a different route kit that I used to fix HTC, so I can’t really speak to Droid kit.
Stick in there, a brick is worth a few attempts at alchemy if you like the camera that much.
- Comment on Did google brick my s21 ultra? 3 months ago:
something to try:
