a titanium windscreen would be lighter, but i like taking my Esbit with me
it picks up droplets or a little splash, and by the time i’m home that spot is already rusting
when i clean it off the color shifts a bit
that little moment of change is fun too, so i keep bringing it out

高尾山 isn’t exactly a “real hike”, but that’s kinda the charm
i love how you can just walk up like it’s a long, quiet stroll
and coffee at the top while looking out at 富士山? that’s pretty special in its own way

even on max flame the stove doesn’t roar—it stays calm, and if it ever tips the felt keeps the fuel locked in so the flame is easy to snuff out
still a lot to refine, but yeah—another small step toward the burn i’m trying to reach

i also made a removable felt cylinder
raise it for stronger flame, drop it for simmer
it holds fuel on its own too, adding about +5mL of capacity
more fuel available, more fire when i actually need it

with this layout i’m getting about 13min from just 5mL
the sub-chamber felt holds around 10mL on its own, and 350mL will boil if you’re patient
a slow burn, super efficient

i added a thin felt disk at the bottom of the main chamber as a warm-up pad
it heats first and sends warmth into the sub-chamber so the stove starts quietly instead of flaring
the thin felt also makes ignition easier
this whole setup is tuned for efficient low–mid fire, not raw power

in the sub-chamber the felt grabs every drop so nothing sloshes or pools
consistent vapor → consistent output
lowkey one of the biggest fuel-economy boosts i’ve seen

so i split the stove into two rooms
a dry main chamber for burning, and a sub-chamber packed with carbon felt that holds every drop of fuel
fuel stays locked in even if the stove tips, and separating storage from vapor generation fixed most of the instability

by the end it doesn’t feel like a nightmare so much as a consent form everyone signed without ever reading the fine print haha

the scariest part isn’t even the tech itself, it’s how reasonable the whole thing looks on paper
Harmony keeps asking “how much freedom would you trade for a world where you never get hurt again?”

was reading it while my phone kept nudging me to stand up, drink water, breathe, “take care of yourself 💕”
at some point it stops feeling like support and starts feeling like this very gentle, pastel-colored control system that’s completely convinced it’s doing the right thing

we’re drowning in mental health talk and kindness campaigns on every platform, so stepping into a universe where that logic gets scaled up into an operating-system-level form of governance feels way more suffocating than any loud, gunmetal dystopia

and the wildest part is how casual it is about humans basically being nicely packaged stacks
personal identity stops looking like a “soul” and starts looking like version control with really sloppy commit messages haha

reading it while my watch is live-tracking heart rate and sleep like it’s quietly drafting specs for my next sleeve
at some point it stops feeling like “far future SF” and starts feeling more like an OS update rolling out with terms of service absolutely nobody read