Unsurprisingly, DT wonât release a new product until Amal is completely sure that itâs going to be reliable.
I guess that itâs a good thing that Iâm not in a rush for getting a Vivokey. Hopefully, the Apex will support payment by the time I finnish setting up my life around a few of the normal DT chipsâŠ
Just got my casters today in the mail, was a pretty easy and quick swap.
On my bedroom carpet, which is super terrible, it manages to do a decent job. The carpet moves around a bit with any chair I use, and these tend to actually roll properly. The build quality seems decent at a quick glance, hoping they last.
I took it in the kitchen though, and you were not lying about frozen glass. My parentâs kitchen floor is uneven, by a fraction of a degree, and I immediately began drifting towards a wall haha. Excited to see well they do on my dormâs carpet, which is a shag carpet thatâs unkind to most wheels.
Anyone here use Lemmy? its like a federated alternative to Reddit.
I created a âbiohackingâ community just in-case someone who hacks their body with smoothies grabs the name first.
At the risk of waxing annoyingâŠ
I went hunting today with my neoprene socks. Itâs great in deep snow too: the dexterity is unparalleled, so you can âgrabâ the ground like you would truly barefoot in the summer and walk much easier in the snow.
Also, you can feel the hardness of the snow underfoot, which means you can tell by feel whether youâre treading on a path thatâd been covered by fresh snow, thatâs normally completely invisible. And you can tell easily if itâs hardened peopleâs footprints or hoofprints youâre stepping on. Itâs fabulous for tracking!
And look: it ainât half bad for stepping on ice youâre unsure of either: you can literally feel the ice cracking underfoot well before it gives:
The weather was changing today, so the hunt started at -16C and ended at -6C. At the coldest, my feet were âcomfortably coldâ (if youâre a barefooter, you know what that means. If youâre not, you may not quite get the concept 
). At -6C, my feet didnât feel cold at all - quite toasty in fact. The snow felt like slightly cool fine sand.
Very nice and very diverse sensations from the various types of snow and ice. Honesly, hiking with those socks in the winter literally adds another dimension to your hikes. So much to feel that I didnât know about!
If you try it in really cold weathers - like below -15C - make sure youâre used to walking on cold surfaces and your feet have the correct physiological reaction to the cold, otherwise you wonât enjoy it. Or go for thicker neoprene, like 5 mm or something. But youâll feel a lot less, so it might be a bit disappointing.
Also, be aware that neoprene isnât terribly solid. So you need to apply the same defensive barefoot walking techniques you would normally apply in the summer to protect your skin, but to protect the socks instead. They insulate you enough from potentially painful objects that you may forget basic barefoot walking rules.
And finally, depending on how you walk - heel strike or ball strike - youâll find that sticky snow tends to accumulate on the area where you feet hit the ground first. Kind of annoying, because after a few hundred steps on the wrong kind of snow, youâll feel a sort of a âballâ that wonât go away at each step, and youâll find a layer of hardened snow under your soles that youâll have to scratch off every so often. But thatâs only on really sticky snow.
I think Iâll pass on the barefoot stuff for the time being.
Now if I could convince Amal to make me a pair of robot digitigrade leg replacements⊠Or to upload me like he did with @PilgrimsmasterâŠ
Good idea, did you consider putting a redirect to the forum?
There is a Reddit one also, which @Backpackingvet is a mod for.
I think he has a redirect, otherwise it is just to difficult to manage and the community is spread to thin.
Anybody who would drift toward Reddit /lemmy should be happy with the discourse forum
Thatâs pretty cool Rosco, your snow looks pretty dry, have you been in wet snow with them?
are you using 2 or 3mm neoprene
Also have you looked at kitesurfing socks?, they have a built in grip tread. it might just add one more beneficial function to your system.
Although I donât know how it will behave with your clumping issue 
anyway, just a thought
or MMA fight training neoprene socks
aannndddd
found the ones I was looking for, similar to some I had.
2mm with grip
This is 2 mm. Theyâre not totally waterproof, but waterproof enough to cross a stream and stay dry.
I do have kitesurfing socks. In fact, I went to the hospital with them yesterday. Brand new, I walked maybe 5 km on soft packed snow, and look what happened to them:
The thin rubber sole stiffened with the cold and cracked right down the middle. Those things arenât really meant to walk on to begin with, and I donât think theyâre meant to take that much cold.
And yeah, Iâve seen all them specialized socks. The one pair Iâm almost tempted to try are these:
But those things are really pricy, and theyâll take too long to arrive if I order them.
I think Iâll just stick to el-cheapo neoprene socks over el-cheapo regular socks, and my beloved Paleo chainmail shoes over the booties if I need extra toughness without sacrificing dexterity or feeling. I already have them and theyâll last plenty long enough.
I have used something very similar to those âpaddle wetshoesâ you linked, I donât think you will get the dexterity you would hope for with them.
FYI my experience with these is from diving, not âbareâ footing
My guess is, the ones I linked to, would have less chance of cracking like your full foot rubberised pair. but again, just a guess
Yes it should be a sticky or something, I just need to check that it doesnât count as advertising or something.
Itâs up for sale grabs if anyone wants.
I donât have enough motivation or enough time to keep it going.
What is? Not sure I follow⊠sorry
Can I be one too?! /u/vivokey
Am I already? I dunno how this newfangled technology works hahah
If that is your actual handle there I will add you.
I am not familiar with Reddit or how to mod. I only got moderation privileges after I requested them. I didnât want to let the subreddit die out if one mod lost interest or is not vested for the company.
No offense to whomever the other mod is. I just wanted to at least update the public.
Reddit might be a good place to start an ad campaign also, so I wanted to be able to give you access when/if you want so you can update that place like a blog, and at the end of the post, you always redirect here.
it is my handle
Just sent you an invite.
Need a good laugh anyone?
So I discovered something pretty coincidental, but amusing enough dicking around in my office to mess with @Backpackingvet
This is a utm 556 battle field blank, on the left
Center and right is a fired and live man marking round, tip is like airsoft meets paintball, but worse
I donât have any fired blanks, but the silver tip of the blank doesnât come off like the MMR
Essentially itâs an all aluminum case, uses 2 staggered primers, one to cause the casing to piston forcing it to eject, and the second to either fire a non lethal projectile⊠or in this case make a really loud bang
Itâs used for high level âforce on forceâ training
ANYWAYS,
Thatâs the explanation of what your actually looking at, the following was an interesting discovery
I could likely fire an implant out of a gun nowâŠ
âŠanyone who knows me well, should know this was only a matter of timeâŠ
I do also âŠstrangely enough⊠happen to have a block of clear ballistics gel
This might need to happenâŠ
To be clear, Iâm 90% sure the glass wonât handle the acceleration⊠but it might be reinforced enough during initial acceleration⊠and glass does handle suprising forces
Iâm not going to, but Iâd really love to imply to the crazies there are rfid bullets⊠but as funny as it would be we donât need the headache
What an interesting round. Thank you.
I looked up UTM rounds for shits and giggles, and check this one out:
REALLY quiet and the blowback still works. Thatâs quite something.
