[-] mack123@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

What do we even comment on a story like this. In 2023. There are no words to express the distaste to how she was treated. Found her youtube channel and subscribed. Looks like she is doing cool stuff. Will keep an eye on it.

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I have been trying to support our Kbin instance here on Patreon where I usually Paypal. I have other people I support though Patreon using Paypal, but paypal fails consistently for Kbin. Does anyone know of a reason why that would be?

Thanks

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mack123@kbin.social to c/vinyl@kbin.social

The turntable in question is a heavily modified Thorens, purchased from a radio station in the mid 2000s. I tried to keep it as original as possible. The only thing replaced was the arm.

Edit: Link the table that was used as a base for the broadcasting turntable.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I am so new to this that I cannot say. It may be area for the many apps under development to shine.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This would be very useful. I would argue for the universal link to go to the user's home instance, where the user should already be logged in and able to interact with the post. That is if the user has a default set. Otherwise the magazine's home instance makes sense for a unknown user.

It would be a core feature on activity pub itself though, with limited use on kbin.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It is in the dev plan afaik. Until them have a look at /m/kbinstyles. It is a magazine for greasemonkey scripts that improve the user experience. On mobile, or I would post a direct link. I am using the subscriptions panel from there and it works okay. Of course as a temp fix until it is implemented in the main code base.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

As far I know the grouping of the hashtags with the articles and links, in one container is specific to kbin. I like the concept. I may be wrong though. I have not spent much time on Lemmy.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Magazine makes sense as a differentiation from lemmy's community. The concept is different so a different word is needed. Thread feels like a throwback to reddit, but it makes sense in the threadverse concept.

I agree on blog though. There post feels cumbersome. Badges could probably use a rewording, but tag makes more sense to me there as an accepted word.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That is awesome work. Must have taken you ages

[-] mack123@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It is certainly a bold and interesting claim. Lets see if it pans out.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That is a beast of an amp for a medium room. 90W rms is a lot. I have not heard the amp in question, but be aware that sony can be a little clinical in sound. I would pare with a set of warm bookshelves. And add a small active sub later. Bose 301 comes to mind. You should be able to find them at a reasonable price second hand. Just make sure the units are undamaged. Cosmetics can be fixed with patience.

It is harder to find good second hand components now that what it was when I started. People were just buying AV receivers and selling lovely equipment from the 70 and 80s for next to nothing.

My favourite mid budget range speakers.have been Missions for years. Boston acoustics and Bowers and Wilkins also makes excellent bookshelves.

The Bose 301 speakers have a special place though. They can be wall mounted or placed on stands and can deliver a warm sound on just about anything.My father's pair has been in daily use since 1983. The suspension was replaced once in 40 years.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Have a look if you don't have an accidental subscription to kbin.social.

I had a similar problem. That seems to be a connection point for federated posts and makes all of them appear in your subscribed feed. It does not appear on your magazine list.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It is a tricky one to answer, regardless of the equipment. So many variables involved. For speakers, placement is often the most important part. Cheaper speakers properly placed can sound better than very expensive speakers poorly placed. It is an entire science on its own.

Enjoy the equipment you have. Listen to records, both new and second hand and then decide where to upgrade most. A mid range cartridge can help an entry level deck. Your system should sound good on any source.

Vinyl can also be hit and miss. I have some really terrible pressings in my collection that will never sound good and some that simply blows me away.

[-] mack123@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed, custom aggregators for kbin and the fedverse in general, will become a thing.

I can see a view that combines the hot posts from each of my subbed communities, with the top 1 or two posts from each featuring, filtering over a time constraint or some other ranking system.

A client side implementation would be possible, but expensive in api calls. Server side should be easier. Maybe even defining a query language of sorts that can be user customised, if we wanted to be really fancy.

Some form of weighted rank, combining activity and interaction. I am subbed to some slow communities that are just starting. Maybe having a post or two in 24 hours where I would want those posts to rank highest. Subbed fast paced communities would then rank lower if we factor frequency and interaction on a per community basis.

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submitted 1 year ago by mack123@kbin.social to c/vinyl@kbin.social

This record is one of the first, if not the first record I bought with my own money. It survived garage parties, university dorm rooms, many moves and still plays all the way through. The surface crackle is like an old friend by now. I should buy a new copy, but somehow that would be a betrayal of an old friend.

So what is your oldest treasure in your collection. That one record that never gets culled in a cleanup?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mack123@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

Please help me understand how this view is intended to work. I have been seeing a lot of content on that view that I am not subscribed to. Today I deleted all of my subscriptions to try and see if the view will change and it does not. Am I missing something in how this is supposed to work, or is there a bug there at the moment?

In case it is missed in my comment below: Here is the solution:

Polymono, helped me find the issue on Codeberg where I logged it as a bug.

It seems that I inadvertently subscribed to https://kbin.social/d/kbin.social which is a meta group of the entire server. The problem is that you can only see that you are subscribed if you go there directly. It does not show in your subscription list.

Unsubscribing from there resolved my problem.

Thanks to Polymono for the help.

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I am in the process of preparing our server world for migration to 1.20 and thought I would share my experience with MCA Selector so far. A youtube video from Pixelriffs a few years ago pointed me in this direction.

Some things to note about MCA Selector U/I which confused me a bit when I first used the app.

  • Left Mouse button selects chunks
  • Middle button is used to grip and move the map
  • Right button deselects the chunk

I used a 1 minute rule to select chunks for deletion. This should avoid removing anything of importance to my players. Some smoothing must done manually with such a tight time rule.

Finally, Backup, Backup and Backup again. Just in case.

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