• Etterra@discuss.online
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    17 days ago

    I love being poor and disabled in America.

    A working PC would be nice, but I’ve learned to keep my hopes and dreams nice and low.

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    18 days ago

    A 10 inch 300W powered amp/subwoofer… I already have a soul-destroying stereo with 8 inch sub and studio monitor speakers… and live in a 1 BR… I do NOT need a sub so powerful it will rattle the gypsum out of the walls, and yet…

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      18 days ago

      My Revel F208 speakers don’t really need a subwoofer for music but having a 12 inch 500 watt subwoofer to support them for movies does add to the dramatic impact. My apartment neighbors haven’t complained so I assume they are enjoying the music and movies too.

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        18 days ago

        I feel like subs are way overrated for music. A good 10 or 12 in a quality speaker kicks. I mostly use mine to round out the sound, because I listen to a shitload of 50’s-70’s jazz where the recordings are shite.

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          18 days ago

          I would disagree since getting a speaker with a “good” 10 or 12 inch driver is difficult or very expensive and impractical since those large drivers don’t do well with mids and upper mids. The Tannoy, Klipsch heritage line, and similar old school designs with large drivers all measure like crap.

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            18 days ago

            Difficulty obtaining a good speaker doesn’t detract from my point though.

            Also yes every Klipsch I’ve heard is shitty.

            e And I said “overrated” not purposeless

  • FancyLad @lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Self-balancing electric vehicle gang! I have a VESC onewheel build and it’s the best waste of money ever.

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        19 days ago

        You can do a vesc conversion on the cheap, there are kits out there. I spent two years amassing parts for my build and it made me feel like Tony Stark putting it together (and it worked).

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      18 days ago

      I bought an entry level espresso machine and i thought that i want a really fancy one, if i keep using it and this one breaks. That was like 8 years ago and i use it almost daily and don’t really want another one.

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      18 days ago

      Get on my level lol

      I tell my kids “if I’m not tea-ing I’m peeing”. It’s truly my only vice.

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        18 days ago

        Lol let’s go.

        Tea is easy to pretend it isn’t a vice. Just keep telling yourself its healthy. Even if it may be a bit more borderline at our levels lol.

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        18 days ago

        Thanks for asking :) WARNING: I got excited to respond. I’ve gotten into a Puerh kick lately. For those that don’t know, Puerh is a very dark fermented tea. My current one taste predominantly like leather with a hint of wood and dirt. High quality dirt. I adore this tea.

        I’ve got a huge white2tea.com sampler order that hasn’t been shipped yet. I’m trying like 21 different teas spread across the following categories: white, ripe puerh, raw puerh, haungpain.

        FYI haungpain is known as “Farms Tea”. It uses broken leaves and leaves lower on the tea plant that were/are considered lower quality. But I hear the lower leaves have a nice robust flavor, and most tea I buy tends to avoid the lower leaves. I’m excited to try it.

        I’m thinking of reviewing all the tea I get posting them all on the tea community or something.

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          18 days ago

          youre gonna make me get into tea again man lol

          last time i bought some i wanted to try puerh too >:)

          those all sound cool asf :D

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            18 days ago

            Hell yeah lol. I hope you get some!

            Since we are a few comments in, and can be sure few others are reading: have you heard of fuzhuan? Its another fermented tea category and I’ve only see great reviews online. Near every review has a comment being like “shhhhh, if this gets as popular as puerh then prices will rise”.

            Its on my radar and I’m so curious about it. And tbh one of my favorite things is a big brick of tea. Fuzhuan often comes in 1kg bricks.

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                18 days ago

                It is fermented using a fungus that can leave gold spots on it. Often called “golden flowers”. I hear it taste a lot like puerh, but has its own uniqueness. Honesty I’m a little scared of it lol.

                But I’ve not seen a bad review for it. Though its good to consider that this tea category is obscure, so maybe only big tea nerds ever stumble upon it.

  • Qwel@sopuli.xyz
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    19 days ago

    A blank 10cm by 10cm square piece of aluminium. About 2 cm thick

    I think I wanted to know how it felt. Like, the vibe of aluminium

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      18 days ago

      That sounds completely logical to me. Did having a hunk of aluminum answer the question for you? Or did it only drive a more insatiable desire to hold elemental materials?

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      I did a coop at IBM many many years ago. My project used a 1" thick slab of aluminum that was about 3’ x 4’ and it was so much fun to just touch that thing. We also had CADCAM which was not at all widespread in the '80s. It was so much fun to design parts and send them to the machine shop electronically and have them show up on a cart outside the lab the next day. Quite a shame how far IBM has fallen since those days.

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    19 days ago

    A convertible that I had have tuned to the max and foiled and re-seated to my liking in my favorite colors. It looked awesome in my head.

    Then my pimp-mobile came. And I always was the center of attention. Which I, a very private person, highly disliked but gloriously failed to predict.

    Also it was horrible to drive for >30mins because you basically had your nuts on the ground and felt every Lil pebble on the road.

    Few months later I sold the car and bought one which basically made me invisible. One that only >70yrs olds drive here 😁

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      18 days ago

      I drive a roadster myself. Recently I’ve noticed that to get out of it, I have to lift my left leg up with my arms and set my foot on the ground, otherwise I get a sartorius muscle strain. I now understand why used roadsters are so cheap: there is only a tiny window where you’re old enough to afford one but young enough to actually get in and out of it.

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        18 days ago

        Lol yes. That too. It was no fun to get in or out. On top of that enjoyment I’m 2m and ripped two jeans while getting out. Up to that point I never saw the appeal of SUVs 😁

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    18 days ago

    I am currently surrounded by empty cardboard boxes from all the jars I bought because I wanted to make a bunch of preserves because I have a supply of free apples. Slow cooker is currently on warming up 5L of pureed apples that I will make into chutney.

    If this was a dumb purchase or not depends on who you ask.