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noughtnaut, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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Might well be this one:
Repurposing an Accom Axial Control Panel
as it combines my previous career in TV, my lifelong interest in programming, my nostalgic tendencies, and my sheer love of buttons galore!
(Work in progress, full write-up is here.)

CaptainMinnette,

That's wonderful! I have a 1994 AIO machine I just acquired as I moved; I need to set up a workstation and get to fixing it. You should join the retro computers community on the FMHY instance.

Mikelius, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?

For guitarists you have either the 100% analog guys that can spend tens of thousands on a collection of amps, or the ones that went more digital with modelers. The big ones being the Kemper, Fractal, Nueral DSP and Line 6. I have the Quad Cortex and it's a killer, thought I wish the rate of updates was a little faster.

AttackBunny,
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Tube amps always sound better. Just saying.

Can we tell which category I fall into?

dismalnow,
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Can we tell which category I fall into?

Forearms that can carry a boogie stack from the van to the stage by their damned selves.

That category.

AttackBunny,
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You know what? Fair enough.

dismalnow,
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I pined over the Dual Rev G when I could actually use one as a gigging guitarist in the 90's - but, as a gigging guitarist, I couldn't afford one.

Now I have a bad back, but it's a Marshall bad back. So I guess it all worked out.

Jimi_Hotsauce,

I like to split the difference and use one of those nutube amps, I got a voxmv50 AC and it works very well for what I do. Tube purists will stick their noses up, modeling people will gawk at the lack of features, but for someone who doesn't even use reverb or delay it's perfect. (Plus it weighs nothing!)

AttackBunny,
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If it sounds good, I’m into it. I’ve seen really, really expensive amps sound horrible, and relatively cheap ones sound great. But pretty universally, I prefer tubes amps sound.

wjrii, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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For most power-tool woodworkers, it's a heavy cast-iron table saw. Versatile, accurate, stable, repairable, adjustable, and powerful. Hand tool folks may not have one at all, or maybe just a little jobsite thing to rip big boards, and there's a few people who think differently and either use a tracksaw or build up a custom work table with something smaller as its core, but the vast majority of people who are "into" woodworking will have a cast iron table saw in good repair.

steaksandwich,

I’ve currently got two vintage contractor saws sitting in my garage: a Craftsman 113 and a Powermatic 63. Both have beautiful cast iron tops and both have misaligned blades that I’ve spent hours trying to fix. I have PALS installed on both and for the life of me I can’t get the trunnion aligned properly. (Yes, this is a cry for help. plz help)

VanillaGorilla, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

Something that's flying around here as well, and often. Maybe they wouldn't even realize that it doesn't belong there at first. Like a condom wrapper or a dog turd.

Manifish_Destiny,

How about a live seagull?

katalaree, in Why do downvotes affect karma, but upvotes don't?

oh is that how it works? i have -1 karma and i was so confused

Countmacula, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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kbin just seems so much easier to me

CauldronCat, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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A pen lid with the long bit broken off, a shopping trolly token, 1 threadbare sock, a novelty rubber (eraser), and one of those black twisty wires that are used to tie up new USB cables, all sealed in a sandwich bag with 'aubergine curry' written on it in janky handwriting.

Why all this random rubbish? Because it'll absolutely screw with their brains!

billothekid2, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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I agree that the naming scheme is a bit weird and confusing. In most people's terminology, when you leave any kind of a comment on the internet it's considered a "post". You "post" a comment. I'm kinda hoping this gets changed, but I suppose I might just get used to it. It's all still quite new after all.

grus, in What is the most useful website you know?
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https://european-alternatives.eu/ - all sorts of alternatives for digital products (btw, kbin should totally be registered there)

RoboRay, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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It's trying to be one-stop shopping for decentralized social media. There are future plans for integration with Pixelfed and other federated services.

JustHach, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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A throne with a skeleton decked out in ancient roman clothing.

Meepster, in People who frequent(ed) "support group" subreddits: what do you think about the future of those places?

That's why I am staying on Reddit for now. I haven't found an equivalent to the kind of support group that I am in, at least not yet. Someone has actually started one in the Fediverse, but it's empty, so not too terribly helpful as yet.

Maybe if the moderators leave and the group gets overrun with trolls, the users will go elsewhere.

ArchiesDad, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

That missing sub.

Rednovs,

Sir there's no air on Mars though! They would surely die!?!

DarkThoughts, in What is Kbin’s identity?

It's a decentralized link aggregator in the design of Reddit with federation support for Lemmy & Mastodon content.
I use kbin because it's simply easier to use and more familiar for me as a Reddit user. Lemmy's layout is just confusing to me and I don't like the extremistic ideology of the admins.

owiller, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

A simple message: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT MARS, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."

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