Wait, this is international? You're telling me that grandmas everywhere were giving this to grandchildren? Is there a secret society of grandmas or something?
I mean, I'm from Argentina, and these hard candies were my live and soul when she picked me up from school.
The difference between grips and gloves is that usually because of sweat, looseness or whatever, gloves tend to slip. Grips don't, and at most they'll do a wrinkle which sometimes I feel it improves my grip.
The insides are still protected, with a rugged surface maybe, but still better than barehand.
So, as many have said, there are short term and longer term things to try. Short term:
Longer term:
Improving the grip will improve your game overall, so it's highly recommended. Some exercises for that could be doing Farmers Carry, Pull-ups hold, and so on.
Edit:
A warning on mixed grip, is that although it helps to lift more weight, it will worsen your technique. So you have to improve that technique as well. I only use it for the heaviest loads. I don't go to mixed grip until 85 or even 90% my 1RM. Before that, the standard one, so I can improve my grip too.
That actually went full circle, 12 Monkeys style.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Oh! I love it! I want to do something similar in my living room. What's the size of your countertop?
I don't know where you are from, but lately I've been using these ones from Picsil. They deliver to all Europe through Amazon, AFAIK. Maybe to the US as well.
The knee sleeves are quite good, it's been almost 3 months and are still standing strong. In spite of being 7mm, they still work great for running and more athletic stuff, like snatches and cleans.
Bienvenido! De momento somos pocos pero copados. Los viernes tenemos noche de siluetas (opcional), los sábados juegos de mesa (opcional) y los domingos ronda turca (obligatorio)
Let's agree to disagree. It's true that these companies are vulnerable and lovely honeypots for hackers. And because they know that, they'll try to harden as much as possible. Besides, not everyone is willing to create passwords out of algorithms seeded with mnemonics. Most of the people will reuse the same password over and over in different places. And that's the worst situation, because most of those sites are hundreds of times more hackable than commercial password managers.
Are there better options than commercial password managers? Yes, of course. How many are willing to use them? Maybe less than 30% of the population. And that's bad, because it makes the internet less safe for everyone.
And by the way, the method you use is one of the earliest ways to create passwords and is hackable by brute force in seconds. If I have two or more passwords, or two or more seeds, the algorithm is done unless you have some random generator in it.
In general, password managers are a must-have in today's world. The question is not if you should have one, but which one and why.
As a Software Engineer very conscious about security and privacy, but also with a high practicality sense, I'd say you should opt for whatever you feel more comfortable.
If you don't want to manage anything, then 1password, BitWarden, LastPass or any of those might be right for you. If you are more of the kind to tinker with everything, then you can have your own OwnCloud/NextCloud and use KeePassXC.
I particularly used the later setup, but NextCloud was too much to handle for me, and settled with KeePassXC + Dropbox.
You do you, but use a password manager.
This is actually something that I've been thinking about Lemmy too. Now Lemmy.World is a good instance, but if I ever need to move, I'll lose a lot, and that's not what Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole should stand for. We need to allow users to migrate to another instance as a whole. Not just the name, but the messages, posts, replies, everything should be repointed to the new user.
Of course, this brings new and interesting attack vectors on instances for DSoS and for users data. Identity theft would be a real bitch.