Why would I do that? I think you missed the point that the puncture forced me to do something I hadn’t planned to do which was ultimately very enjoyable.

That’s the one.

I guess so, whilst it can be annoying in the moment for the most part I am happy to walk home and take that risk.

That one pinch flat I mentioned was during an acid trip and turned what would have been a slightly better than average 60km road ride into a 3 plus hour trek through some beautiful countryside with a great hour long chat with my mum on the phone. I still fondly remember that day and needless to say I wouldn’t have had such a great day if I’d had a repair kit on me.

However everyone will have different experiences with punctures xD

Doki doki literature club.

I couldn’t see it recommended anywhere which surprises me considering the hype around it when it first came out. This is the only game I have ever played that gave me a genuine feeling of unease throughout. Pretty sure it is free on steam too.

Tyres definitely make a lot of difference in my experience. Changing out the cheap schwalbe for a specialised crossroads that is armoured made all the difference. I haven’t had one puncture with that tyre, can’t recommend an armoured tyre enough if you are using your bike all the time and want reliability!

I carry nothing, I have cycle commuted on this bike 4 - 5 days a week for the last 7 years or more as well as doing rides for myself. When i first got the bike I had a couple of flats on the rear, I changed the tyre and since then I’ve had 1 flat in around 6 and a half years so I just don’t see the point.

The flat I did have was a pinch in the front from a huge pothole I didn’t see on a route I didn’t know so it was what I would consider exceptional circumstances too.

How often do you actually use that stuff?

I have found most of the things I want through a combination of piratebay and 1337x for torrents, soulseek, librevox for old stuff and a library app. I have then mirrored what I have got via torrents up on to soulseek.

I have recently been using the scribd free trial so might be worth checking there, they do a 30 day free trial then when you go to cancel the sub they will offer an additional 30 days free too.

I only use 1x speed for audiobooks, i listen to them whilst at work and I want them to take up as much times as possible for me. I also don’t want to miss anything if I’m concentrating a bit harder on a specific task I’m doing. Where as something like youtube I watched everything there on 1.75x speed because that is my own time and I want to get the info as quickly as possible.

I never read however. I’ve enjoyed getting into audiobooks because of the fact I find reading absolutely mindnumbing and it sends me to sleep so I’m glad to be able to experience all the good stories out there without having to read xD

I ran into issues with sometimes not being able to view some other users files when I requested a list of what they were sharing, but I don’t really know the ins and outs of how it all works, I just know that plenty of people downloaded a lot of stuff from me so it must have been working for some people :)

https://lemmy.ml/c/dubstep I have been posting over here, if you like some dubstep come join in :D

Also https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/trap here for some trap.

I have been using soulseek for the last 6 months without port forwarding and plenty of people have downloaded a lot of stuff from me, however I have just switched to airvpn as well and can confirm now have port forwarding so Im hoping more people can access my files!

I absolutely do where I can but when a lot of stuff gets released within the scene I am into on a dead inferior format (vinyl) exclusively then I am absolutely going to pirate that shit if I can.

Found this looking for a beatmatch or dj community. Did you have any luck finding any?

Beatmatch specifically was great as it wasn’t as gate keepy in my experience.

God I am sick of remakes and remasters of all the same old shit.

I use Asgard along with real debrid which will populate your search results with torrents as well as other results and has been working well for me for a while now.

Love me some soulseek and looking through everything people get from me.

In terms of rooms I don’t converse with anyone in them but I do always sit in the dubstep room purely because 90 percent of what I have is dubstep so I hope that people might see my name in the list and then explore my files allowing them to find some music they are interested in (hopefully)

I wouldn’t even think to look for movies on there unless maybe I couldn’t find what I wanted on any of the torrent sites so maybe that is what is happening, people come there as a last ditch attempt to find what they want?

The co-op own brand version of kettle are the best flavoured salt and vinegar crisps I have had in a long time as I have found most other brands taste more watered down these days. Don’t know if that is changes or my taste buds getting old but they hit the spot!

Yeh, self proclaiming “international rules” is utter bullshit, they could maybe claim national but this doesnt follow the rules as I know them from the UK.

Also who wants “points” it is all about an excuse to beat on siblings or friends when younger.

I have heard of “punch buggy” because of the internet but never knew of that as a thing when I was younger. We did the same thing but for minis and there was no name for it you just shouted MINI as your fist was flying in.

I’ll have a browse through what you have. If you want “real dubstep” then gimme a search “music4cheese”

The music I play is pretty damn niche and soulseek has been great for finding a lot of things that I just simply wont get anywhere else. Unfortunately it is also a genre full of elitest gatekeeping “vinyl only release” cunts so it naturally draws the locked file crowd.

If i wasnt poor then I would make it my mission to buy up and rip all the vinyl only releases just to make them available to everyone. Sadly I am poor xD