/tech under the night sky?

A few years ago I found out about this programmer called Matthew Von Rocketstein. >Have you ever heard about him? Probably not. >What is so special about him? Well since you ask. He has been travelling the world and programming at the same time for 3 years. Furthermore he has been travelling on bike. Here is his personal website: http://data.holdings/ >Sounds cyb, I wanna hear more about the bike... Well his bike is in pic related.Also here are more pics of it: https://plus.google.com/photos/116408857612537818720/albums/5919384113018548945 What is special about his bike is that it collects solar energy so that he can power his laptop and program on the move, even during the night. Here is some of his code: http://data.holdings/code Anyways, isn't this super cool? I will post this under /cyb because I want to hear this from all of /cyb and /tech, not only programming. Do any of you ever just grab your laptop, hop onto your bike or {insert favourite vehichle here} and just do your /tech stuff outside or in a coffee house? Also what is your tech lifestyle? As for me, yes I do sometimes go outside, just for the sake of "changing rooms". Sure finding wifi is a blessing in such cases, but most coffee shops give you wifi anyways. Other than that yes I am mostly sedimentary and survive on coffee, tea, fizzy drinks and unhealthy foods.

Oh dude that fuarrrking cool- >apple Yeah, no, he's not really living like this. It's just something he does in his spare time for fun when he snot living off his daddys trust fund so he can tell his 'friends' how experienced and cultured he is for having traveled in this manner.

>>19120 I would say he is pretty legit, he also gets paid to do presentation on his lifestyle. Oh and he is an artist on the side.

>>19120 And you only proof that he's bull soykaf is an Apple logo? God-tier reasoning.

>>19149 >gets paid to do presentation on his lifestyle. Oh god please no. >>19165 Yes, Kalyx. It is.

>>19120 >he's not really living like this This is either bait or you're just being a presumptuous asshole; not everyone with a macbook is some techie bankrupting themselves into working at the Googleplex.

This is pretty neat. Almost makes me want to go out and do something similar. If he can afford a nice bike like that I don't see why he wouldn't able to afford a Macbook too. The active lifestyle/hipster/coffee house crowd tends to gravitate towards Apple products anyway from what I've seen, so it doesn't really seem like a surprising choice if you ask me. Definitely not hating though, the dude is doing something really cool with his life.

>>19190 Your're so full of soykaf and assumptions.

>>19190 way to put people you don't understand or even remotely know into a tiny little box.

>>19248 Would you kindly stop commenting his hardware choices and start getting back on topic and comment his lifestyle?

I've wanted to do something like this for a long time. It would be awesome to leave everything behind and live off what you can carry on a bike. I just haven't found an opportunity to do it though, you'd need to be pretty financially stable to do something like this if you have no independent food source. I'd be especially expensive to outfit a bike like that. Stupid reality, stop getting in the way of my dreams and ambitions.

I don't think I can even try to live thsi way. I know I'm capable, I know how to camp, but the fact of the matter is I like my cushy middle-class American lifestyle. Props to this guy though.

>>19251 Sadly, you cannot reason with those who are part of the Apple cult. And yes, I would consider people who autistically hate on people just because they own an Apple product to be just equally brainwashed as the idiot who assumes it's good because Apple made it. As for this programmer, I don't really see the point of going out into the wilderness or just outside in general and bring tech that isn't a smartphone with me. But then again, I have days where I "unplug" and just don't spend hours on my computer or tablet. So for me, outside would me no electronics.

At night I like to get outside and use my laptop. Ive done some programming on the grandstand of a football pitch, in a carpark in the rain, at a trainstation at midnight. Those cyber feels. Also I run debian on a macbook air i got originally for ios dev.

I've also been dreaming of something like this. But instead of a bike, I was thinking of a small camper/bicycle trailer kinda thing. At least so I have a place to hide inside and carry some more stuff with me while also being able to compute in the rain. It's only a dream though.