It was bright carpeted floors that inspired this post.
cyberdecks. they’re basically unusable as daily devices since they’re just made to look cool… but they look cool
This is the exact thought I had as I saw this post.
I’m currently building one out of an ammo can with a raspberry pi and an ungodly amount of squeezing and CAD work.
Very much inspired by this guy’s buiild:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qo-nNeZTQE
My current progress:
https://i.imgur.com/k1WUoJb.png
that’s sick
Agreed. I’ve been obsessed with it. And I Made it extra challenging for myself by using a bigger screen, a whole whopping 9 inches. And then to add insult to injury I’m making removable batteries, a locking mechanism so it can be taken apart on the fly, a full mouse and keyboard, and a fan for airflow.
Eventually I might also add a GPS unit inside it too for the hell of it.
I just put together a mechanical clock from a lasercut wood kit. Not particularly accurate, and you have to wind it every once in a while. I don’t even have it working properly because the drive train seems to have too much friction with the current placement. But it looks really cool with all the gears exposed.
Fountain pens. I very rarely write anything, but goddamn do I appreciate the artisanship of the pen itself, the myriad of inks to choose from, along with the physical sensation of writing on nice paper.
I write a lot of things on paper for notes. I found that when I write with a cheap ballpoint, I’m pressing down hard to get the ink to work right, and it cramps up my hand in short order.
With a fountain pen, you can’t press down hard. You’d ruin the nib if you did that. You need to learn to slow down a bit and glide over the paper. Your notes will tend to be more readable as a result.
The main issue becomes weight balance. I find I don’t want to put the cap on the other end, because that puts a lot of weight on that side and my hand will get tired from holding it up.
It all works very nice when it comes together. You do want to wait for the ink to dry so it doesn’t smudge. That’s the one real cost.
If you don’t want to do all the cleaning and ink maintenance of a fountain pen, then I’ve found Ohto ballpoints to be a good alternative. Still have to wait for the ink to dry, but they glide across the page with minimal pressure. When someone borrows one of mine, I warn them not to press down too hard, and they’re surprised when that works very well.
Writing implements in general: pencils (mechanical and not), pens, fountain pens and anything in between.
It’s ironic, since I’m a programmer and it’s way more usable to just take notes on the computer (easier editing, linking, organization and searching).
Dragons. How do people feed this thing !?
Feed it the rich
Gothic architecture. So much extra work to sculpt all the spires, gables, grotesques and archways, for zero added functionality. But they look dope as fuck.
Incidentally I hate brutalist architecture.
That’s a good one! The level of detail in gothic architecture is insane and gorgeous. I love seeing curves and rounded shapes in architecture in general. As for brutalism, I’ve seen some creative things done with this style too, although of course its advantages are durability and affordability rather than aesthetics. The modern minimalist trend in architecture where everything is beige/white/grey is what I dislike most.
Fully agree! It’s so much work and so incredible to look at and admire. Art deco too for the same reasons.
Steam locomotives!!! Maybe not the full intent of this thread, but they’re terrible for the environment, inefficient, complicated as hell, and SO COOL!
related, steam turbine locomotives! they never really took off, but they’re amazing!
I’m guessing that in 50 years people will feel this way about internal combustion engines as well. A lot of the time the more efficient technologies get, the more boring, as all the energy is going into their actual purpose, and not chugga-chugga sounds.
Indeed, you’re surely right. Pour one out for the big boys.
Living
Slightly lowered cars, I love the look, but they are almost always less comfortable, harder to drive in certain places (steep driveways, potholes, etc).
It’s a total waste of money, but I love how it looks when a wheel properly fills an arch and the air dam is that bit closer to the road.
An antique Victorian or Queen Anne house. I love the towers, the gingerbread charm, the corbels and fascias and all the little crinkly bits. The rich old wood interiors with tin ceilings and plaster medallions, hand carved staircases and crown mouldings.
However I am never going to be able to afford the absurd cost of retrofitting one to be energy efficient, and I know the quirks of odd room sizes, antiquated floor plans and non-standard sized things like weird door heights and window widths would drive me absolutely insane. So I’ll admire them from afar
However I am never going to be able to afford the absurd cost of retrofitting one to be energy efficient,
Is that even an option? In my experience they leak so much it’s more like a pile of sticks than a modern envelope. You’d have to, like, add a whole other layer to the inside or outside, or take it all apart and rebuild it to actual geometric standards.
You’d have to, like, add a whole other layer to the inside or outside
That is, actually what they do, by my understanding. If the house isn’t brick, then when you need to replace the siding they will actually put an entirely new layer of sheathing on over the outside, something like Zip R that has poly-iso foam insulation and acts as an air barrier. They then can put siding back on that fits the original look of the house, hopefully using architectural elements and details that were saved from teardown.
Another way is to go from the inside, and rip out the walls to the studs while saving trim pieces and put in new insulation and replace the horsehair plaster with drywall. Then you’ll be dealing with special ordering non-standard modern double glazed windows in weird sizes, because if you wanted to use the standard window sizes you can’t use your beautiful old growth mahogany trim pieces lovingly carved for your whacky leaky windows.
The attic is often not that bad to insulate because there should be relatively few cut-ins and blown in cellulose can go everywhere, but then you miss out on your perfect gothic “Wednesday’s room” unless you want to spend even more money trying to figure out how to get all of those turret towers and vaulting and weird rooflines into your envelope.
So, it’s possible, just prohibitively expensive
Thanks! That makes sense.
Please don’t kill me. I actually like the way cybertrucks look.
I would never own one for innumerable reasons, though.
I remember when I first saw them, the cyberpunk aesthetic was interesting.
Having seen them in real life though, the fog machines and laser light show were definitely doing a lot of heavy lifting.
In real life they look out of place and instead of looking cyberpunk they end up looking more retro-futurism.
To me, at least, as someone that likes the cyberpunk aesthetic, I was kinda excited for the cybertruck too. If not for it specifically, than for it opening the door for other people to adopt more sci-fi designs.
Sadly every time I see one in person I think it may have set things back instead of moving them forward.
SUITS! I LOVE SUITS! They also are comfortable to me
Had to read this twice.
Did you also see “SLUTS”?
My orange cat
Shaved legs, there’s literally no practical benefit and it’s so much effort but even if I wear long pants just having the knowledge I haven’t shaved makes me so uncomfortable.
Shaved legs, there’s literally no practical benefit
Pro cyclists would argue with you on that point. Probably swimmers and runners, too.
Hairless bodies have less wind/water resistance. 💁♂️
Laser hair removal is a good long term solution for this.
Yeah that’s very high on my list of things to do once I have more money. Hopefully my hair is dark enough for it to work
If you can spare a spa day once every couple of months, you can try sugar waxing at home. The smoothness lasts way longer than shaving and it’s more gentle on the skin (and easier to clean) than normal waxing. After a few years of that my hair stopped growing back on my calves, and I haven’t had to shave there in a long time.
I might try that. I’ve not heard about sugar waxing before
My Filipino wife was joking with her friend this weekend about how mystified I was that she never shaves her legs. On our first date her legs were so shiny I thought she had oiled them.
Orange. Shag. Carpet.
Yes, it’s a bitch to clean. Yes, it traps every particle of dirt that wafts into the room. Yes, to almost everyone other than me and some equally damaged enthusiasts, it looks god awful.
But if I could carpet my whole house with it without that being grounds for divorce, I’d be doing it right now. It’s the feeling between the toes, top-tier. I can’t explain it - it’s not like I grew up with it - but there’s something about orange shag specifically that screams “comfy” to me.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
He’ll kill you on sight just to take the first word in your username without the s.
You talking that weird orange with the bits of brown in it they used in the 70s?
You talking that high maintenance, orange brown shag?
You talking that deranged, I’ll never-have-to-clean-it-myself carpeting?
Best shit ever.
My best friend bought a house that was last redecorated in the 70s, and had been unoccupied (but maintained and cleaned regularly) since the early 80s. I loved that carpet so much. Eventually we pulled it up and redid her hardwood floors, but my God did I miss that carpet when it was gone
Awwww yeaahh…that’s the good shit.
In my very last move with my parents, I almost got to have my dream room - wood paneling, old 70s orange-brown shag with pilling like a lawn in need of mowing, the works. I was staying behind in the old city a month longer than them, but I begged them to keep it exactly as is.
I moved in to find it was replaced with beige, boring carpet, with almost no pill to speak of. I was devastated.
They did you dirty, my friend. I’m so sorry. I will observe a moment of silence for your loss
My kind of people 🤝
Love a good shag.
“Lookin’ for a good shag with the missus, gov’ner?”
Me, with my wife in the carpet store “Please leave us alone, it was hard enough getting her to come”.
“But didja manage?”
“Hell yeah!”
And then we high five, I buy my carpet, and turn around only to notice both my wife and car are gone and never coming back. And I’m left to hump that shag down the road myself.
[This was fun]
Your comments and posts are a great contribution to Lemmy :)
The PowerMac G4 Cube. Absolutely gorgeous design, arguably the best looking computer ever. Horribly impractical even for the time and especially nowadays.
Even just looking at them is a problem. The main computer is held in place with two screws? Posts? and the weight of the machine can make the acrylic crack. I have two of them, but I store them upside down. I 3d printer some support braces, but my printer at the time sucked so they weren’t a perfect fit and it took a ton of work to file them down to the right size to fit, but not fall out immediately.
This is the exact kind of answer I was hoping to find. I had to look it up; it’s definitely a sleek and innovative design, especially for its time.
