!battlestations@lemmy.ml has been pretty quiet… I miss looking at cool setups and vicariously imagining myself using them.

Unfortunately I can’t seem to find any place that sells them in HK without expensive shipping. They look neat though!

Looks solid and practical, I’ll look into it. Thanks for the rec!

Is this true? Did they switch manufacturers or something? I’ve heard of the same happening to other previously reputable brands like Doc Martens, it’s a real shame.

Thanks, I’m hoping for this to last me a good while :)

My dad has a goruck, it’s taken quite a beating (he actually goes rucking unlike me) but is still very much intact. Wouldn’t get one at the moment but they are a reliable brand!

I fully agree with you about the zippers. That jingly shit is annoying as hell. My Osprey pack has the cord type of zipper but with plastic zipper pulls on the end of the paracord, which unfortunately have all broken in half lmao.

Looks nice! The v2 appears to have some more features too, which is cool. Do you find yourself actually using the compartments, though?

Swissgear is a cool brand but somewhat over budget for me. I’ll look into it though!

Yeah this is way over budget but it looks very sleek and fully featured. Thanks for the rec!

Foobar just works. I use it for audiobooks as well.

More for them and less for me then. I enjoy my Subscribed + New feed and don’t bother with much else.

I used to play on (pirated) Pocket Edition on my dad’s phone as a kid, since I couldn’t convince my parents to get Java Edition.

I built an entire city in Creative mode - with a gigantic ice skating rink - and ran around showing it off to anybody that would listen. If I looked back at it these days I’d find that it leaves a lot to be desired, but my dad chucked the phone so I have no way of knowing how good/bad it is beyond my nostalgia-tinted memory.

These days I main survival, redstone, and tech mods. I miss the days when I could build whatever I wanted without my inner critic getting in the way.

Nice tweet bro

I’m a student, gonna start (undergrad) medical school this summer.

Yeah, I guess it really depends. A decent chunk of my school friends have ended up emigrating or going to university halfway across the world. The Internet is neat but timezones are still fucky.

That’s impressive. How did you manage to stay in contact for so long? Hoping my friend group can stay similarly close, although I can’t say for sure. (Coming from a teenager.)

Thunderbird on PC and K-9 Mail on Android

Thanks, to be fair my social circle always consisted of outcasts that banded together to begin with. I don’t think there’s much harm in keeping up with some “normal” activities so you have stuff to talk about though.

It’s worrying how many of the answers are “nobody”. Not surprising based on Lemmy’s main demographic being men in their 20s-30s, but damn.

I freshly graduated secondary school and still have a tight-knit friend group that I can lean on. Even as we drift apart, I hope I can still maintain this type of support network in the future, although I’m not too optimistic.

PC for Minecraft and osu!, Nintendo Switch for Zelda and Mario Kart. I’m not a huge gamer, I only focus on a few specific games. In general I do prefer keyboard+mouse over a controller, though.