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Everyday Carry. What essentials do you carry on a daily basis?

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A slightly eccentric physicist's EDC (sopuli.xyz)

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An all-black LAMY Safari fountain pen filled with a mix of water, Platinum carbon black, and inkjet printer ink.
A blank sheet of A4, folded in half three times.
My passport.
A fully loaded Secrid card carrier.
A really nice rock. It has been in my pocket for a year. Don't think about it.
A dumb watch. (Casio W-59. Very small, light as a feather. Green LED-backlight display. 50 metre water resist. Tough, within reason. Effectively infinite battery life.)
A beta of the PinePhone Pro, equipped with dreemurrs archlinux.
A USB drive containing all of my computers' boot partitions and Archiso.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Why this specific formula for the fountain ink? Beautiful pen, by the way.

What do you use to manage the ISOs? Or did I misunderstand #7?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I've heard good things about the LAMY. Do you find it's as practical for daily use as say a ballpoint?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Nice, I've got the OG PinePhone. It had some circuit board issues, but I loved helping at the ground floor. Is the PPPro good enough to daily drive yet?

I also keep a USB, but with my Keepass database so that it's an offline carry. I keep 2 copies additional to that, 1 in my fire safe, and 1 in my mothers fire safe.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Where's the rock? I want to see it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You carry all this shit on rounds? I carry a pen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Why would a physicist go on rounds?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you know it wasn't till I enrolled in a physics degree that I met another human using a fountain pen. My first year prof.

Why are we so fucking weird? It's obviously superior not having to exert normal force on the page to write (fuck you ball points) but why isn't that more widespread.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (10 children)

because we have to fill or change cartridges, buy or make ink, clean the nibs, carry our pens carefully… too much effort just to write

ballpoints are efficient, sturdy and effortless. There are situations when we have to write/mark quickly while standing or outside under the weather

it's not a question of "superiority" but practicality. when i'm writing or drawing on my desk i use a fountain pen. outside i carry a small zebra ballpoint

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I only see a pen and part of a spiral notebook.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay, can you show us a writing sample? And what kind of ratio do you use when making that ink-mix?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

filled with a mix of water, Platinum carbon black, and inkjet printer ink

why do you choose 👆 solution over a commercial ink?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like changing colours a lot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

i need more information :) you can change colours with inks too

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