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  • Re: If a box hasn't been unpacked..

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Mon Jan 26 07:46:07 2026
    Ogg wrote to ogg <=-

    I've moved 4 times in 15 yrs. Each time, I've added more unopened
    boxes to the next. I still haven't even unboxed much after my last
    move from 20+ yrs ago either! :D

    Once I moved, realized I had unopened boxes from my last move, and
    donated them without opening them.

    Moving is an important tool for getting rid of crap, I've been here 11
    years and my wife and I spent the weekend clearing out our storage space
    of stuff to be tossed.

    For me, it's mostly about getting rid of hardware and cables I don't
    need any more. The one thing I refuse to get rid of -- my Linksys WRT54G router. I just can't get my head around tossing it.

    I'm looking into minimalism, realized I have 7 books in my Calibre
    library on the topic, then realized the irony of it.






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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jan 26 18:05:51 2026
    I'm looking into minimalism, realized I have 7 books in my Calibre
    library on the topic, then realized the irony of it.

    I think I'm generally aiming for something _approaching_ physical minimalism, and then be a digital hoarder.

    Yes, I'm 99% sure that I won't read x book, but that 1% of the time...

    But if I have 100 books on a bookshelf that I haven't read, that takes up a lot of space.

    ...mind you, not that I'm great on physical minimalism, given that I just tried sorting through my clothing, and I still have at least 27 dresses, and that... is probably way more than I'd keep if I were moving and needed to be space efficient.

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  • From Vorlon@21:1/195 to Accession on Sat Jan 31 14:12:44 2026

    Hello Accession!

    27 Jan 26 17:44, you wrote to me:

    The one thing I refuse to get rid of -- my Linksys
    WRT54G router. I just can't get my head around tossing it.

    Are you still using it? Mine has Openwrt on it, and since setup
    i've not had to mess with it. It just keeps on working, and the
    only time it's had a reboot/power cycle is when the UPS has said
    "I'm running out of go-go juice, I'm shutting down"...

    Mine is tucked away on a shelf somewhere. I couldn't get rid of it
    either.

    Do you have a dead spot in your house? Could place it there (If having a network cable back to a central place).

    I ran DD-WRT on mine, and the only reason I took it out of
    commission was because of better speeds and more wifi devices.

    I just checked mine (After remembering what IP I gave it), it's actually running DD-WRT. Just goes to show how
    solid of a device it's been, that I'd forgotten what it ran & the login information! #-()

    We have fixed wireless here so the average speed test result is 60-70Mbs. It does peek up over 100Mbs, but
    that's at something stupid time in the morning.

    Loved that thing, though! First router I ever flashed with new
    firmware, and was the timeframe I started tinkering with IPv6 via a
    he.net tunnel. Good times. ;)

    It was my first router that I flashed as well, but had done many other things (SCSI cards, land cards for
    example).






    Vorlon


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