What is the ideal gear for a Sophisticated Man?
What is the ideal technological setup for a Sophisticated Man?
What does the Sophisticated Man eat?
What are his hobbies and interests?

We must discuss and form Cyberix's role model that we may live by.

My ideas:
All mobile technology have greyscale color correction to make reality more appealing than the mobile device
No social media or gimmicks. Your "phone" is a tool, not a toy. Being a phone is it's primary function. Connecting to IRC/XMPP/Mumble is appreciated, but ultimately secondary. Be grateful that you have the ability to see the weather forecast from such a small device.
Sonim XP8 or XP5 smart/dumbphone hybrid
^ Alternatives? Aim for similar phones made before 2019-2020. Replaceable battery and rugged frame recommended for longevity. SD card and all of those other goodies

Computer:
Legacy software just works. You don't NEED to upgrade.
Try not to use software or hardware that isn't built to last. You should be able to self host or bypass any Internet reliant components of the software easily and without extra cost. It's okay to compile a 17 year old version of a program in order to achieve perfect native performance. It worked for people back when it was the latest version and it'll work for you now.
Consider deliberately older hardware that is most commonly documented and discussed on the Internet for better troubleshooting

Consider small square monitors. Wide screens aren't cognitively healthy. Something like the Dell 1908FW for example is small and square. Avoid Internet connected monitors or smart TVs for your screen. Also more desk space for other gear.

The Sophisticated Man could forego computers and phones entirely, but then we would probably not know of Cy-X overall. The Sophisticated Man limits the majority of his time online to interacting with Cyberix and using it's services, for the community serves to be a obscure tightknit club where other sophisticated men are present.

Also music. Modern music is a mess and is psychological warfare through frequencies and idea plants. The Sophisticated Man limits when he listens to music, how long he listens to music, and the genres of music that he listens to.
Consider Classical and its sister genres.
Consider avoiding negative music like the plague. Negative music WILL have negative effects on your psyche and how you perceive reality and thoughts. You must abandon it or risk attracting negative experiences.

No porn or masturbation. It's not that special and only drains your energy. It is also psychological warfare funded by shady interests. Consider installing the Wingman Jr Firefox extension if you have a Computer or Android device in order to avoid porn sucker punches.

I have not listened to any music in two weeks. I no longer suffer from mental overstimulation and "ear worms". I am less tense. Not a lot of Americans can say that they've went at least three days without hearing music. I do not masturbate. I act without ego.

Other gear could be:
Wallet (RFID resistant, rugged?)
Dedicated camera, doesn't need to output super high quality imagery. Rugged forms are best.
Portable pocket size hard disk drive to transport Computer system around if necessary. Encrypted with LUKS2. MBR BIOS partition table for compatibility.
Vehicle - We need to Avoid "smart" vehicles. No satellite / cell tower bullshit. Also avoid remote control. Something that's boxy and can fit lots of things inside without problem? Thinking something around 90s-2008. Low maintenance. Haven't figured out yet

Consider searching for rugged forms of everything. They are always better than generic civilian equipment

Thats a start..

>Consider small square monitors. Wide screens aren't cognitively healthy.
any particular reason why? I have always found them useful because of the additional screen space to sort things, especially whilst reading and writing several documents.

Is this the new fastman?

The Sophisticated Man jerks off up to 8 times a day to the finest pornographic material
He uses the latest and greatest iPhone and Macbook for his computing needs and replaces them every year
He has multiple 8K monitors for his setup
He listens to music 24/7 with his Airpods, if they run out of battery he uses another pair
He doesn't need a wallet, after all he can just use his iPhone to pay for shit
He looks at social media up to 10 hours a day
He also drives a Tesla

Now that's Sophisticated.

>>10224 is correct
He also never makes his own food he either goes to McDonald's or the local gas station

>No porn or masturbation.
Unless you are also against non-procreational sex, I don't see why you would make an exception for porn. You cannot just hide parts of the human psyche without major consequences, the same way you cannot condition humans to behave less violently without facing major consequences, you cannot just disable human sexuality without major consequences. I think those people, who claim to be against porn, do this out of guilt for what they had as sexual fantasies, which is why only Internet weirdos even know about concepts like "NoFap".

>Consider avoiding negative music like the plague.
I think the "sophisticated man" should allow himself to feel the full spectrum of emotions, having the whole experience as a human, as such he should seek out dramas in literature, movies, AND music, because this will give him an authentic life, not "avoiding it like the plague", because then he would shelter himself from what it means to be human.

>>10302
You can, you know, get a girlfriend, that's why porn is bad
all you do is jerk off to a non existing partner and exist as a lonely idiot
Even if you were doing it for pleasure, actual sex with an actual partner is way better

Now obviously you could say "WeLL YOU CoULD WatcH porN ANd HAvE a PaRTner aT ThE saME TIMe" but I'm really not sure about the ethics of that one

Now studies do prove masturbation is harmless in moderation keyword moderation
You're talking about a free, always available source of very powerful stimuli this is the perfect recipe for an addiction

Also Who's taking a thread like this seriously anyway

>>10311
>You can, you know, get a girlfriend, that's why porn is bad
That's partly it but even if every woman on this planet was dead porn would still be bad. Porn gives you excessive stimulation for no effort whatsoever by hijacking the lizard brain. Your life outside of porn becomes less meaningful and interesting as a consiquence always at some level regardless of you noticing it or not. On top of that it primes its user to seek increasing novelty to the point where some people start consuming stuff that goes against their values. Since women still exist on this planet one shoul probably also wonder what kind of damage porn is doing at the level of relationships between men and women. It's probably worse than we recognize. In any case everyone would benefit if porn did not exist. Most people know this at some level even if they pretend to not know it because you know... they are getting so much pleasure out of it.

>>10302
>Unless you are also against non-procreational sex, I don't see why you would make an exception for porn.
NTA but there is no exception. These are simply different things. No one is asking you to act as if sexuality doesn't exist. One should probably remember here that people did not go insane from not cooming before there was constant access to sexual content 24/7. Yes, there was a world before playboy magazines existed and we'd know that if we just opened a history book. No, I do not buy that you lose your mind like an ape if you go without masturbating for years. This is another one of those modern thought patterns that somehow became the norm without anyone questioning it.

I do wholeheartedly agree with your point on art.

These restrictions are arbitrary and don't say much except for what you think is cool. Some of your points I really disagree with. In particular your attitude towards classical music feels like the average person's reverance for some mystical complex thing they can't understand. I love Baroque music, but you can't say modern music is psychological warfare while ignoring the historical use of music in the church. Secular music was hardly a thing until the Enlightenment for ideological reasons. Music was only to glorify God, so this highly emotive form was used exclusively for rousing spiritual sentiments. To use music to glorify anything worldly was profane, and moreover could promote ideas apart from Christianity.

But, it's at least true that music can affect not only your immediate feelings, but deeper thoughts as well. Nobody wants to admit they are easily influenced, but it's true for almost everyone. Like you I've gone for periods where I don't listen to any music, because I was curious if music was having a passive effect on me. But I really love music and can't go without it, I'm passionate about what I listen to and it's core to my life.

Most of this other stuff is pretty typical sort of thing people talk about but never do. Like those people who say "use tor only for all connections"... said on a site that blocks exit nodes.

small square monitors do actually feel more like tools than screens, less distraction, clearer spatial navigation for multitasking without visual fatigue.
realism in a 5x5 grid is easier to conceptualize than sprawling horizontal strips, especially over time.

no need for fastman vibes. ideal setup: vintage gear with minimal tech, no batteries.

>>10211
small screens force you to focus on one task at a time. no scrolling through 50 tabs while you're supposed to be reading something.

>>10607
classical is a whole other system of sound, no need for that dogmatic stance
watching someone else's idea of perfection blindfolded feels like a performance

My MacBook""'s Retina display took me forever to break. Even after upgrading to the latest M-series chip, the touchscreen lagged like crap on my old 2016 laptop. Never again.

yeah, sure, small monitors make your brain feel like it's doing some actual work, not just flipping through endless feeds. It's like if you tried to read a novel on a phone but got distracted by all the ads. My MacBook's LCD died after 5 years, got a 15' iMac instead, wish I'd never touched a touchscreen again.

Some square monitors actually keep my mind sharper than anything else. The 14' retina one I got from a used store was my first real desk setup. Worked well until my hands started cramping, then switched back to a bigger 16' for the sake of muscle memory, less typing, more deliberate.

any man with a functioning cock can get a real chick he's just a weirdo who likes to jerk off to cartoons they're all mentally challenged