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Everything about this group is fascinating. They are digital nomads on a boat. Every article [0] is a peek into an existence I didn't think or even consider was possible. I always get thrown into a rabbit hole when I visit their site.

In another life maybe.

[0]: https://100r.co/site/dry_toilet_installation.html

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Some of the stuff is truly fascinating. My favourite: Solar Collector Tubes (cooking using the sun, including baking bread).

https://100r.co/site/solar_evacuated_tube_cooking.html

Also, they are active 9front users because they got fed up on dependencies (on any OS) and bloat. 9front it's very small and everything it's statically compiled while having a very small API. Crosscompiling it's a breeze and it automatically makes you competent on CS on reading then Plan9 Intro book from Ballesteros.

For anyone interested in this, Devine also has a personal wiki at https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/home.html

There's so much cool stuff in there.

Also, they post on Mastodon (since way before the recent migration waves), at:

https://merveilles.town/@neauoire

https://merveilles.town/@rek

and the instance created by them hosts a rather fine community of people:

https://merveilles.town/public/local

I'm really impressed that they have the energy / motivation / time to write a virtual machine after dealing with all these "real world" issues !

Also impressed that it runs on a lot of real hardware apparently. I have seen many VM projects but they seem kind of isolated within other computers.

The extreme constraints definitely push the design in a different direction

Yeah, the same witht the Z-machine for text adventures (and terminal games like tetris, trek or rogue for the Z-machine) . Once you compile the game with Inform6 (an easier OOP lang than Python, rooms and objects are described almost as if they were a config file), the game runs from DOS/Amiga/Atari machines to Win/Lin/Mac/Android/iOS and even Haiku.

There is a huge subculture of sailors on Youtube, which is part of my escapism entertainment.

Of course Youtube’s algorithm being Youtube’s algorithm and capitalism being capitalism a large part of those sailing videos is bikini content. But at the same time a large part of the sailing existence is repairing, renovating and upgrading their small yachts, from fiberglassing to solar to watermaking. As you say, a peek into a fascinating existence.

As someone who recently moved onto a boat after discovering all those YouTube channels, I agree! I've found the less produced channels to be the most exciting.

Yes. The trick is to find these channels early and then bear to unfollow them when they get to streamlined.

My favorite recent channel is called “Boring Sailing,” which the algorithm served up, but has very few subscribers. It’s actually—truly—been boring to watch, at times, but you have to root for him!

“Wilding sailing,” on the other hand, is a much more ambitious labor fest, with the boat owner restoring a catamaran he bought for 2k Euros. That’s been inspiring, entertaining, and really worth subscribing to.

into a rabbit hole

Pun intended, I suppose.

;)

Shitting in the seas is more complex than I thought.

Not always. A lot of the boats I've been on opt for a bucket instead of a head.

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