Simple things, that once you dig down into them get massively complex.❓

I find this happens a fair amount with tech but it can happen with most things in life when you think about it.

A small example, mechanical keyboards for PC gaming. If you aren’t into PC gaming then a keyboard is a keyboard most of the time. Sure, you might have a favourite but basically you hit a key and a character appears.

Mechanical keyboards though.😐

What sort of feedback do you want, linear? How noisy? The keyboard must be hot swappable of course. Per key RGB rather than rainbow, obviously. Ten Keys Less? 60%, 65%? Wireless, corded, macros, colour display?…

The list just goes on and on. It’s fun deciding on, or even building up a keyboard from kit but you can end up researching the keyboard more than playing the actual games.

Tell me, what’s your rabbit hole of choice? From the real small stuff in life like keyboards, right up to the big questions we all might try and find answers to… as we fall down the Google search pit of despair!👍😁

Obviously the answer is tyres. BITD, you just bought a Fire XC Pro in size 2.1, and if you were feeling fancy, chose one of the 4 coloured stripes.

But now. Blimey. Couple of days to figure out how a Wicked Will is different to a Nobby Nic. Then you need to choose a width. Then a compound. Then a carcass. And figure out if tubeless ready is even a thing any more or if TTL is the new thing, and what even is tubeless ready because surely all tyres get run tubeless nowadays.  Then realise that you current tyres are the OEM version or whatnot and so aren’t as good as proper ones, so now you don’t want to even put those old tyres on your pub bike because you have convinced yourself that anything without at least 6 compounds is a deathtrap.

Then you notice the price of tyres nowadays and go and have a little frustrated cry.

Annoyance of my life. keyboard.

Im a leftie, so set ups on games is difficult. A completely custom keyboard where you decide where you want things to sit certainly sounds like lap of luxuary.

The opposite sex 😝

Brexit

Pretty much everything is like this. How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

@Fueled Before that even simpler

Tioga Factory XC or Factory DH both £10 a pop ! 👍How we scorned those who told us buying “decent “tyres made a difference after all we were on the Factory version 👍👍👍👍

Up at FOD the other week , Continental Kryptol something or other compound my riding could never justify £84.99 each ! 😳😳😳😳

For me at the moment it’s replacing our large family car.  It is an incredibly first world problem I know but I spend a fair bit of time in the car every day/week and I am going to need to like it enough to not feel grumpy about the expense every time I look at it or drive it.

Current bones of contention include…

Hybrid/petrol/diesel or could we make an EV work for us …maybe, not quite, definitely no (and repeat)?

Estate vs. SUV.

Higher mileage, premium car vs. lower age and mileage mass market.

Shall I downsize and put up with a roofbox and grumbling teenagers about legroom on most long trips, where shall I store the roofbox the rest of the time?

Before COVID our max budget would have got us a low mileage, 4-5 year old premium car.  Now it seems to be a 7-9 year old one or something 4 years old that’s nice-ish that you’d have paid 40% less for not many years ago.

I used to be indecisive….

I’m a lifelong ‘victim’ of this. If I am going to start a new hobby, activity, or project, I have to research it to the nth degree. Sometimes, if I’m honest, to the point of being borderline obsessive about it. I can’t just try something and see how I get on. I have to completely immerse myself in it. And of course the more you ‘know’, the more gadgets and ephemera you ‘need’ to acquire and the more complex it becomes.

It’s a shit character defect really. I love to try new things but I think I’d enjoy them a lot more if I wasn’t so driven to fully understand and/or be good at them all. A small consolation is that I’ve finally recognised this trait and am managing to hold it in check a little better than I once did. Thank ****, as I’ve recently started on home espresso. An activity notorious for obsessive old bores disappearing forever down very deep and expensive rabbit holes. #prayforblokeuptheroad.

Any form of insurance, but particularly travel insurance to cover ‘extreme’ sports and contents or stand alone insurance to cover bikes.

My word you need to read the detail…

The mathematics of Bayes theorem and how it applies to medical screening and testing.

Tl:dr more “tests” often cause more harm than good even if not doing them can sometimes mean missing something.

Pension withdrawal strategies – how to make sure my DC pension pot lasts until my wife & I die.

Annuity or not, safe withdrawal rate, asset allocation, income harvesting, tax-efficiency, life-expectancy, financial advisor competency/longevity… I’m probably 8-10 years from retirement and started looking at this stuff a couple of months ago. I’ve got a PhD and I’m finding it challenging, I’ve no idea how most people manage.

I’ve always been a fan of the Keep It Simple Stupid principle, but modern software development infrastructure and methodologies have gone very much in the opposite direction. It’s like peeling an onion with an infinite number of layers.

I’m a lifelong ‘victim’ of this. If I am going to start a new hobby, activity, or project, I have to research it to the nth degree. Sometimes, if I’m honest, to the point of being borderline obsessive about it. I can’t just try something and see how I get on.

I think the root of this is a fear of doing the wrong thing.  Well, you’re a bloody idiot, you obviously should have bought 2.2 tyres rather than 2.1 as any fule no.

The corollary to this is analysis paralysis.  You’ll sit there agonising for days over something absolutely trivial, before hitting STW going “recommend me a windscreen wiper.”

The processes that take place to make a letter appear on a screen when you press the keyboard.

Two things sticking together.

Patios

😂 for me building gaming PC’s and completely agree with the keyboards even down to the lube for the kill switches

renovating old houses.

my advice. buy one thats already done.

Software development, and I say that as a grizzled veteran developer.

My current issue is buying new cycling shoes – I bought some but don’t like them now that I have worn them, and now don’t want to make the same mistake again

Water. Seems simple on the surface. But no, cooling expansion and hydrogen bonding.

All of physics. Every so often you reach a tipping point of learning and suddenly they go “actually everything we told you so far was a lie, a comforting white lie that enabled you to feel like you understood a little bit when in fact you know LESS THAN NOTHING”

Water. Seems simple on the surface. But no, cooling expansion and hydrogen bonding.

This. It’s so essential to life. It’s everywhere. We can’t live without it. But the physics and chemistry of it are just a bit mad.

Everything. Believe it or not, we haven’t all had enough of experts. And it doesn’t matter what field; building, medicine, particle physics. Everything.

Tides…. just the moon right? and that opens a rabbit hole of 1 or 2 a day, why some places don’t have them and urgh. Turns out it’s quite complex.