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Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (2016)
- mijoharas 3y agoCan someone elaborate on what this is?
- kragen 3y agoNoun professional (plural professionals) (...) 2. A person who earns their living from a specified activity. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/professional https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/professional Noun hobo (plural hobos or hoboes) 1. (Canada, US) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (derogatory) a penniless, unemployed bum. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobo https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobo it's awesome is what this page is
- ErikAugust 3y agoA hobo's website.
- r9550684 3y agoa blast from the hackernews past, when obscure hacker's personal home pages made it to the front page. timonoko is a hacker's hacker, but then it's kind of hard to figure that out without attentively going over his website, something there's no motivation to do without some kind of pitch.
- uoaei 3y agoI was motivated to digest the stirrings of a crazy man, and it was a wild ride, ho(o)-bo(y).
- morningsam 3y agoIt says on his bio page that he was "blacklisted" from working. Does anyone know what exactly he's talking about there?
- sixthDot 3y ago[flagged]
- robocat 3y ago> He's a bludger Calling people names is not really the style of this site. And without actually knowing more about him, I suspect you can't know enough to make that highly judgemental call. Aside: I associate with a wide variety of people, some of which would be labelled bludgers by folk ignorant of those people's social value or circumstances. Their actual value to society varies tremendously. Note that welfare benefits are more accessible in New Zealand compared with many other countries. I also know plenty of working people I might personally think of as taking undue advantage of wider society.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago> And without actually knowing more about him, I suspect you can't know enough to make that highly judgemental call. Counterpoint: OP does know him, and well enough to make the call. You probably don't know OP well enough to say one way or the other.
- esperent 3y agoNot wanting to work is a valid life choice. Western societies produce a massive excess of goods, we don't need everyone to spend their lives working.
- shrubble 3y agoThere is this from Wikipedia: "In the 1980s under the chief executive officer (CEO) Kari Kairamo, Nokia expanded, mostly through acquisitions. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, Nokia corporation experienced financial difficulties. Losses were made in the television manufacturing division. In 1988, Nokian Tyres became a separate entity. Nokia's paper division was sold in 1989. In 1990, Nokian Footwear was a separate entity. During the rest of the 1990s, Nokia divested itself of all other businesses. In 1988, Kairamo committed suicide. Following his death, Simo Vuorilehto became Nokia's chairman and CEO. From 1990 to 1993, Finland was in recession. Vuorilehto made major changes to the Nokia corporation. The telecommunications division was stream-lined. The television and personal computing divisions were sold." So they were laying off a lot of people, and Timo had worked there for 6 years at that point. What really happened may be unknown, but given the time period it appears that a large amount of corporate restructuring was going on ...
- milkshakeyeah 3y agoIf you are rich you are the Nomad, if you are broke you are a hobo.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoWhich is he? He looks broke/hobo. But some pics seem like there is apartment, and that he travels some. So does he have some money and is nomad? (some nest egg? he doesn't look like millionaire).
- oh_sigh 3y agoHe worked for Nokia until 1990, theoretically if he held onto some stock for 10 years it could have been quite the windfall.
- 9991 3y agoWhat does a millionaire look like?
- RajT88 3y agoA million dollars ain't what it used to be. There are lots of millionaires which are not stereotypical rich people.
- iancmceachern 3y agoI would say most, most of the millionaires I've met are in this bucket
- Turskarama 3y agoA 4% return (which is pretty easy to get, even after tax) on $1 million nets you $40k per year. It's not a lot of money, but you could live off it if you were frugal.
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- dmbche 3y agoI keep seeing foldable kayaks around - what a small world it is to think this guy has a part to that!
- nntwozz 3y agoIn his latest youtube video I spotted him using the inflatable Nortik Cityraft. https://youtu.be/f7QxZnSWzN0 https://youtu.be/f7QxZnSWzN0
- nl 3y agoOhh the Cityraft looks really interesting especially if it inflates like a packraft. I have a Intex inflatable kayak which is ok, but it uses a pump for inflation ad no way it'd carry a bike.
- anyfactor 3y agoI wouldn't call him a hobo in any way, but if you really like a calming way of wandering around North America, I recommend checking out: Foresty Forest YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@forestyforest https://www.youtube.com/@forestyforest He lives in a van with a dog. And he will summit random mountains across Canada, go on hikes, cook some food in his van. There is a weird comfort that I think might echo with people who have a fascination with nomadic lifestyle.
- prawn 3y agoHaven't watched him in a while but in the earlier days, his production values were quite charming. He's at a great intersection of vanlife+summiting+pressure-cooking. Not much pretence or glamour.
- anyfactor 3y agoI took a very long break as well, but I started re-watching again. For some reason, I have become very fond of the idea of finding comfort in routine. He posts a video and the format is pretty much the same, so I just play his videos as I go to sleep. Post10 [0] has a similar tone to his videos. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@post.10 https://www.youtube.com/@post.10
- tkgally 3y agoHere’s a video that happened to come up on my YouTube feed today. It’s by someone doing what I’ve always thought of as the quintessential hobo activity: hopping a freight train. Beautiful scenery. https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlPWF8LFXS0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlPWF8LFXS0
- watmough 3y agoBeware, this is kind of a deep rabbithole. I suggest to look up his trip up from Mexico, following the migrant route. For a different view of the same trip, his travelling companion (automous something) has his own channel. RanOutOnARail isn't really a hobo though ... I think he's a software engineer in Texas somewhere. Hobo Shoestring has an interesting channel also, albeit with a home base. You'll learn a lot about trains, and hobos' most hated adversaries, the 'homebums'. :D And of course, there's a 10x hobo, in stobe-the-hobo (RIP), well worth watching all his videos.
- prawn 3y ago"My ultimate hobo dream has been a suit, which is comfortable to wear at all times and which protects you from any kind of environment. You wont need a tent or a home." One of my eternal pub discussions has been about an Urban Mobility Suit which looked like a business suit, but was actually designed for backcountry hiking. Plus a briefcase actually containing ultralight and compact camping gear. To really confuse people in the outdoors. Then as you overtake anyone on the trail, say things like "Excuse me, running late for my 10am."
- tommica 3y agoI need this in my life... "I know I dropped the presentation somewhere here"
- hans0l074 3y agoThis reminded me me of the _stillsuit_ from Dune [1] [1]: https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit
- iancmceachern 3y agoI have good news for you, this exists. It's called the "suitsy" and it's made by the SF clothing company beta brand: https://gizmodo.com/a-hands-on-review-of-suitsy-the-silicon-valley-born-on-1705082495 https://gizmodo.com/a-hands-on-review-of-suitsy-the-silicon-... Unfortunately Beta Brand doesn't make them anymore, maybe it's fortunate, I don't personally know of that were good or bad.
- quickthrower2 3y agoAlmost every other mammal has one!
- __jambo 3y agoBut few to none can survive across the breadth of environments humans can with the aid of sometimes highly advanced clothing.
- d-lisp 3y ago
- nntwozz 3y agoThis guy puts MacGyver to shame.
- resolutebat 3y agoThe website hasn't had any updates in years, but Timo's YouTube channel is still alive and kicking: https://youtube.com/@TimoNoko https://youtube.com/@TimoNoko
- vesinisa 3y agoHe's also an active community member on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=timonoko https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=timonoko
- ldmosquera 3y ago[dead]
- helf 3y agoInteresting page.. but some stuff is pure wtf material: "Sol emits indeed Nukular Particles and solar panels thus have tendency to produce Nukular Energy, but the accumulation of these particles can be avoided by using "Green" batteries. NiMH-batteries are more "Green" than NiCd-batteries -- and usually labeled as such.." Say what now?
- marttt 3y agoSleeping bag kimono, tent that looks like a car (and is "parked" next to a real car). The Finns' subtle sense of humor always makes me smile. Totally love it. Warmest greetings from Estonia! Also, look at the wear and tear of his HP100LX (main portable computer for 20 years). It's been a close relationship for sure: https://github.com/timonoko/HP100LX https://github.com/timonoko/HP100LX I think all this is also an expression of the Finnish "sisu", isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu
- fulafel 3y agoThe lisp stuff in the bio sounds interesting too (https://timonoko.github.io/Timo_Noko.htm https://timonoko.github.io/Timo_Noko.htm)
- timonoko 3y ago50 years of Youtube is quite amazing. If I watch old video I can feel how I felt that day. That is why I dumped so much "unedited" shit to Youtube. -- I am the biggest consumer of my own content.
- layer8 3y agoAccording to [0], he's now 70 years old. [0] https://timonoko.github.io/curricu/IRTISANO.jpg https://timonoko.github.io/curricu/IRTISANO.jpg