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Couldn't help but notice the link to the author's Twitch account, which has the description "I live a minimalist lifestyle..."

Amazing what passes for a minimalist lifestyle these days!




I have a single bowl, fork and knife. Everything that I own has a purpose or it gets chucked. There really isn't much space in a 7m long van.


Given the size of cutlery, coupled with the fact that multiple bowls will fit inside eachother, is this overcompensation for an extreme maximalist lifestyle on the electronics side?


Physical misanthropy FTW


Well there's nothing necessarily wrong with maximalism per se, it's just the misrepresenting was a bit odd


No offence, sir, but 6 different ways to connect to the internet is not minimalist.

Your priorities lies elsewhere, perhaps not in bowls, forks and knives, but certainly with internet connectivity :)


I disagree.

It sounds like OP has found that six different ways to connect to the Internet is the minimum that is viable for him, and that meeting that is important enough to justify spending a large portion of his limited budget (both financially and in terms of space in/on his vehicle).

If one fork does the job, one fork is enough. If five way to connect aren’t enough, then maybe six will be enough :)


I disagree. The highly specialized monitoring equipment and dual high gains antennas and the plethora of other bits and pieces are NOT required to run a "a meeting" or a "netflix stream". A phone with a sim card usually suffice. All this frivolous spending points out that this is a hobby. Nothing wrong with having hobbies, of course, but the spending is not compatible with the definition of minimalism.

A minimalist online meeting is an IRC connection over 3G.


You're underestimating how terrible internet connectivity is in rural Australia. A lot of places will only have 1 provider that offers service, if any at all.


> I have a single bowl, fork and knife.

And soon 7 (!!!) internet links! Anyway, I just find it interesting how individuals (including myself) describe themselves and rationalize their descriptions.


That's cognitive dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

It's normal to a point :)


"Dad, can I use the bowl today?"


This definitely sounds like a rough experience for the kids, practically and socially.


Pfft. Mahavira didn't even have clothes.


Admittedly a low-effort post, and too late to delete, but just to explain, this whole idea of having a single bowl (used to collect alms) is a thing in monastic/ascetic traditions. Which I always get the sense minimalism is vaguely inspired by. Anyway, whatever, it was off-topic.


Basic utilities like water, internet, and electricity are what I would consider minimal.

They're just much more involved to get in a Van.




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