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  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldFinally
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    27 days ago

    Of course. I can only speak for brands that I’ve had good experience with, there’s other manufacturers like Nike or On Running or Hoka or Asics or Saucony etc.

    The Brooks Adrenaline range offered the best cushioning and support for my overpronation style of running (as in, I naturally land on the inside edge of my foot and roll out - Supination is landing on the outside edge of your foot and rolling in, and neutral is landing squarely) or the New Balance 680 range got me through my first half-marathon.

    My advice would be to head to a local running store and see if they do gait analysis - basically they get you to run for fifteen or twenty seconds on a treadmill looking at a fixed point in front of you, and a camera records your footfall on the treadmill to see where you could benefit from cushioning (if at all), or take your old pair of trainers down and let them examine the wear pattern (only works if you specifically use the pair for running).

    Secondly, don’t bother buying the latest models of shoe unless you’re an athlete or at least semi-pro - find out what model number the latest range is (for example in Feb 2026 the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 26 is being sold), and search for last season’s model number to get them for a fair bit cheaper.











  • Sorry friend.

    If your data was occupationally-sensitive or renders you vulnerable to financial ruination, it’s time to move to a recovery phase and see if modern data recovery specialists can work their voodoo.

    Remember: never run experimental commands (you or a GenAI) in a live environment. See how it breaks things in a test environment first - if it shits itself, you may even get to learn how to fix it before running the instruction on live data.

    Anecdote time! A good friend of mine drove his car to a mutual colleague’s place once because the wipers were about as much use as two chicken breasts on metal poles. He says to our colleague “Hey Foxy, I hear you’re good with cars, can you fix these wipers for me? The rubber seems to be in good nick but it’s not clearing anything”.

    “Sure thing,” Foxy proudly announces, “I’ll get to work”.

    Foxy strips the wipers down, one component at a time, before dusting his hands off and walking away.

    “What’s going on, Foxy? The thing’s still in bits!” my pal says.

    “No idea,” says Foxy, “not a fucking Scooby mate” and goes back inside, leaving his wipers and actuating motor in about fourteen pieces on the roadside.

    So much for being good with cars.




  • I’ve lucky enough to be able to fund my study while I’m in middle age.

    I took up my degree course because I enjoyed computing and the theory behind it. I enjoy it for the most part, it’s engaging and intriguing. I’m getting some personal and academic development out of it even though it’s got fuck all to do with my “real” career.

    I can see people stressed off their tits with it though - people who have a career pinned on success with the degree; people who went to uni because they felt it was just the next natural step; and people who did it because they were told to.

    I feel genuinely gutted for them that a topic that brings so much learning and satisfaction can bring another so much stress and anxiety.

    Shame.