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Same, man. I like it, from the meditation-like state when you take it serious to the gun goes bang part when you are just messing around. But some of the people, man... Where do I start.

I think I should go again regardless, if everyone with wane opinions leaves, that would be surrendering.

As a rule of thumb, everything Japanese is expensive but rock-solid. Chinese stuff is hit or miss, don't buy if you are not willing to put in some research. So, great beginner radio.

Hah, is that a challenge?! Because I will totally try, fail, and proceed to tell myself that tarps are overrated anyway.

If I cannot think of a word in my mother language, I see if I can think about it in English, and then put it into an online dictionary to get the mother language synonyms. Works pretty often.

I found a bug by slacking off.

Without details, there was a product that we were supposed to test before it hit mass market. It had an annoying bug where it would forget certain configuration items, seemingly at random. Nobody could reproduce it.

Until me and my friends decided that this was the perfect opportunity to slack off, and took a >1h lunch break ("can't be online on teams, I'm testing..."). As it turns out, the product goes into deep standby after >30 minutes. Official break time was 30 minutes. So if you take the break on the dot, it will never go to deep standby, and never forget its configuration.

So, we figured out the bug by taking a long-ass lunch break.

Imperialism is good if the other team does it? Come on.

Besides, nobody was going to attack Russia. 1. they have nukes, 2. everyone who tried in the past has lost due to geographic and military realities, 3. they were supplying (and still are!) lots of fossil fuels to Europe, and 4. they have nukes.

All other recent conflicts near european Russia like Georgia, Moldova (both Russian imperialist aggressions) and Yugoslavia (it's complicated) were limited, minor skirmishes on more or less neutral territory. Hardly a threat to Russia as a nation or even its role in Europe.

I think the key word is "practical". Both the mainland and Taiwanese governments are not stupid, they know they have to acknowledge the status quo for day to day business like customs and immigration.

If you are cheap like me, you can use a normal head torch and hold it in your almost-closed fist, that reduces the blinding a lot and you can control how much light you want

Mine is a small mokka/Turkish coffee pot with a removable handle. On a recent trip, someone bought a portable espresso thingy and it was a really nice alternative to the bottom-of-the-shelf cheap instant coffee we had otherwise. But to be honest, non-terrible instant coffee is fine for me, just don't get the ultra cheap crap.

At the end (or rather beginning) of the day I settle for "hot, caffeinated, does not make me want to spit it out". I'd rather drink the shitty cheapest possible instant coffee on a cool trip with nice people than the other way round.

Coffee. If you are a coffee drinker, get a way to make half-decent coffee.

Or tea, or hot chocolate if you hate caffeine. Nothing beats the feeling of a hot cup of something after a short, noisy, miserable night.

Counter argument: be unprepared and ready to improvise. I swear half the fun is just zip-tieing random stuff together late at night in the light of your phone torch.

This. You need high conectration deet or icardin, and you need to basically rub it all over your exposed skin and clothes. Then it works quite ok.

The best method is to apply bug spray and make sure someone else in your camp does not use bug spray. I swear the fuckers take the path of least resistance.