I'm in a field where remote work should be possible, but I'm not lucky enough to have landed such a job. I have to go to the office every single damn day.

It's an 8 hour job, but I have mandatory one hour lunch, so it's really 9 fucking hours. Comute is about an hour each way, so that makes 11h total. Oh, but wait, I take transport and have to wait some time for a bus one way or the other, so it's more like 11h30.

To wakeup and get ready for work I need 30 min minimum, but really 1h is better. So it's up to 12h, or 12:30. Let's round it to 12:15.

That's half my damn day. If I want to sleep for 8 hours, that leaves me 3h45min at most each day for myself. And I don't even get paid enough to move out. Which I guess is a positive in this case, because that way I don't waste my <4 daily hours taking care of tasks which my parents can help with (cooking, groceries, etc.)

Ironically, if I did get paid enough to move out I might be even more depressed.

Would you share the main stage, or the secondary stage?

I just got my open water certification from SSI, and I think I remember my manual saying you should share the main stage, and use the secondary yourself - also called the octo, I think? But when I dived with my instructor, she taught me to share the secondary.

My instructor is certified under both SSI and PADI (maybe others), and when I looked it up I did see some people mention that sharing the secondary/octo is the PADI way, and sharing the main is the SSI way. Is that true?

Which way were you taught? Which would you do? If you're an instructor, which way do you teach? And more importantly, why?

To me, how my instructor taught me makes the most sense, because what you hear in most rescue situations is that you have to make sure you are safe first so you can be in a position to help; so it follows that you should keep breathing out of your main and share the secondary (instead of interrupting your breathing to switch).

Some months ago I made a post asking about denim finger tabs, and said I'd try it out and make an update. I ended up forgetting, especially because I've been spending less time online (humblebrag, because I'm proud of it). Also, I only went to the club about once per week, and had to skip a few weeks.

Anyway, here's my experience.

My club also had some old/used leather tabs that you can borrow, and I used them a few times to compare. The thing about the denim tabs is that they are kinda thin by default. Even if you double layer (which is easy to do with most denim materials by just bending it in half), they are still much thinner. Another issue with denim is that if you just cut it, it starts fraying at the edges and falling apart very easily. An easy way to solve this would be stitch/sow the edges; however, the stitch also adds an imperfection (becomes less smooth) to the tab. I'm too inexperienced to say how much it affects the release, but it's worth mentioning.

In short, they are viable but require more craft work than just cutting a piece in the right shape (layering, and stitching). Someone also mentioned canvas, and I'm thinking of trying that sometime later. For now, I'll just keep borrowing the old tabs.

Edit: Also, for some context, I've been shooting recurves in the 25-32lbs range.

Hopefully this community isn't dead and someone will see it.

I'm a vegetarian leaning vegan who just got into archery and I need some kind of finger protection. All finger tabs I see are made of leather, but obviously I want to avoid that; and I've also seen gloves made from plastics, but ideally I'd like to avoid plastics as well since they're not very sustainable.

I've seen some videos of people making their own finger tabs from leather and it appears quite simple, so I had the idea of making mine using denim from an old pair of jeans.

So, how viable do you think denim is? I expect one tab won't last as long as if it was leather or plastic, but I have an entire pair of jeans to go through.

EDIT: Thanks for all the answers! I'm still in the process of getting federated so I can start going to the range regularly, but I think once I do I will try the denim method to see how it goes and then post an update. I'll probably use it for a month or until it falls apart, whichever comes first.

Was having a lot of thoughts and decided to try my hand at this. Was kind of proud of how the second one turned out.

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They say love is blind

but before you I could not see.

Romantic movies and poetry

finally fill my heart with glee.

 

With sorrow and sadness as well,

for I'm alone in this race.

You didn't follow when I fell,

but I try to rise with grace.

 

A friend is all you want for now,

so a friend I try to be;

but if you ever want everything,

look no further than me.

Hey, so I've been using Hamachi with Haguichi on Linux (Mint) for some time, and for the most part it works fine; however, hamachi will occasionally disconnect and then ask for my password to restart the service. This seems to happen kind of irregularly, and some days it barely happens, while others it seems to happen every 5 minutes.

After some search, I only managed to find a couple of old results - with no solutions - but which suggested it was a memory leak issue. I checked the systemctl logs and it seems like that might be the case:

systemd-coredump[96279]: Process 93832 (hamachid) of user 0 dumped core.
            #11 0x000000000040954f n/a (hamachid + 0x954f)
            #12 0x0000000000462f71 n/a (hamachid + 0x62f71)
            #13 0x0000000000464d10 n/a (hamachid + 0x64d10)
            #14 0x00000000004afe24 n/a (hamachid + 0xafe24)
            #15 0x00000000004e816c n/a (hamachid + 0xe816c)
            #16 0x00000000005005d4 n/a (hamachid + 0x1005d4)
            #17 0x000000000050eb48 n/a (hamachid + 0x10eb48)
            #18 0x0000000000446c9e n/a (hamachid + 0x46c9e)
            #19 0x00000000004bebe2 n/a (hamachid + 0xbebe2)
            #20 0x000000000040709e n/a (hamachid + 0x709e)
            #23 0x00000000004076cf n/a (hamachid + 0x76cf)

I guess my question is, is this a known issue? Does anyone else have the same problem and/or know a fix? And, if not, does anyone know of a good alternative that is available on both Linux and Windows (I'm connecting to people on Windows)?

Thanks in advance.