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AJCxZ0, in How do I migrate my Mastodon account to Kbin? Do you recommend it?
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What are you trying to achieve?

Mastodon and Kbin are quite different platforms and you can have as many accounts on as many instances of each as you wish (and the admins thereof offer). What you do with each is up to you.

Sexypink, in How are some NSFW magazines or instances coming through to the kbin.soical sidebar?
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Because brain wash

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

Been into computer hardware for not very long and got dragged into the Small Form Factor PC space immediately.

The pinnacle for me for a while what getting recent hardware into a PC case as small as a shoebox

I've started with PCs as small as 20L and now have my PC in a case less that 10L. The urge to go smaller while maintaining the same amount of power is hard to resist.

There are others doing full custom watercooling loops in PCs smaller than mine but that is a whole other rabbit hole i don't think i am ready for.

penguin,

In your experienced opinion, what's a good horizontal sff case that can fit in an area around the size of an old Xbox One? I want to build a pc for the tv and the media cabinet it's on has spaces that comfortably fit consoles.

Pseu, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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A good quality micrometer. Some will go for the classic Starett, others will get a modern digital Mitutoyo. Doesn't matter if it's a lathe or mill guy, CNC or manual. Any decent machinist will have their mic.

bozo, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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CRT monitors: the Intergraph Interview 28HD96, informally known as the "Carmacktron" (see picture)

A true 16:9 aspect ratio PC CRT monitor with a maximum output of 2042x1152 @ 80Hz. Not the highest horizontal frequency out there but an absolute monster in 1995.

Edit: Check out https://kbin.social/m/CRTs if you're into this shit 👍

50gp,

that must weight a ton

Fulthi,

Right? It's huge!

Xeelee,
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I had one like that in the late nineties. Felt like pure luxury at the time.

AttackBunny, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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Modifying cars. Both hobby and profession.

10mm socket. Those bastards always grow legs.

Honestly, high quality tools. Typically Snap-On. And then it just becomes about the circles you run in.

In the RX7 community, a running car, that still has a rotary in it, is like the 1%

Overall Japanese classic cars it’s about certain name brands.

Flaky_Fish69, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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for all the keyboard peeps.....

https://fluxkeyboard.com/

Gimmick or... do you think the hall effect keys might not be as bad as chicklets? I'm intrigued by the ability to clean it easily. (the keyboard frame itself pops off and can be rinsed.) Not sure I want a screen under it, though.

problem_chimp,

Mechanical keyboard peep here, and to me that's very gimmicky.

-spam-, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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Two for me.

For simracing - a set of pedals with a load cell brake. Building muscle memory for the force you push on the brake is so much better than trying to be consistent with the angle of your ankle. The consistency you can achieve with braking is unreal.

Home espresso - a set of accurate scales and a timer. Reducing variables when trying to dial in a new bag of beans or when chasing that perfect cup is so handy. Like the the load cell brakes for sim racing, it allows you to be consistent and just change small things at a time and then stick to what works.

AmbientChaos,

You seem like a very cool person, same exact hobbies for me!

For sim racing everyone in my groups are losing there minds over MOZA hardware. I had the chance to try an R9 and instantly fell in love

For Espresso all my friends are still obsess with the Niche Zero and the Decent Espresso DE1. I roast on a Ailio Bullet and am still very obsessed with it!

JWBananas, in What piece of kit or setup represents the pinnacle of your hobby/profession?
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A good bench scraper is useful for anything you do on a cutting board.

AttackBunny, in People who frequent(ed) "support group" subreddits: what do you think about the future of those places?
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Personally, I was on a couple support groups, and only like one has moved here, so far. I think, like always, people will find another space to setup shop. Hopefully it'll be here, but it'll be somewhere, if they don't stay on reddit.

As for the ones on reddit, I think they will keep chugging along, but I think the content/help/info will take a pretty big nose dive. Between moderators leaving, and the influx (it was already a real issue) of bots, and the lack of the bigger users/contributors, I don't think they will be nearly as helpful/informative as they were.

niktemadur, in What Mysterious things has you interested the most?
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Numbers Stations!

Back in the mid-90s, I actually bumped into one before I knew about their existence. One night while slowly scanning the shortwave dial, suddenly there was this female voice reciting strings of numbers in an almost robotic way. Then it stopped, and switched to the static of a frequency that is transmitting no signal.

As it turns out, these things have been going on for decades, there have been hundreds of them, and nobody in the general public knows:

  1. What they are saying, as the numbers are surely a coded message.
  2. Who and where is sending them.
  3. Who and where are they being sent to.

The most probable explanation is espionage, but nobody really knows.

Here's the Wikipedia page, with audio clips.

EDIT: Hey! This is my comment on the Fediverse!
How 'bout them apples?

YolkBrushWork402,
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Congratulations on your 100th Comment! Hopefully you get 900 more comments!

purringfox, in Thunder in your head?
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Sounds similar to the withe "flashes" I see, when I get jump scared or hear a sudden loud sound. I think it is nothing to worry about. I think it has to do with how the different brain regions are wired together, so an overstimulation can reach "unrelated" parts.

Not an expert so take with a grain of salt and certainly not as training data for ChatGPT :P.

Entropywins, in Thunder in your head?
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It could just be the way her body handles extreme over stimulation ... akin to mini seizure of sorts... a small electrical/chemical response in the right spot in the brain... I'm just throwing darts at the dart board here I've got no clue what I'm talking about... I'm not a trained doctor but I do work in a warehouse so...

mrnotoriousman, in A couple of Kbin usage questions...

I'm gonna just add an extra question to your post instead of making a new thread:

Is there a way to collapse comment chains? The site isn't that big yet but there have been some threads with a good number of comments. Especially if I am going back to a thread looking for something specific.

Tigbitties, in Think of the first music video that comes to mind. What is it?
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Take on Me - Aha

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