Litter-Robot 4, which was a painful $800.
Best purchase ever.
picking up a new skateboard deck today! i need to get out and get moving again to help recover from a recent injury. it’s been years since i’ve ridden but i am super excited! i’d like to also depend less on a car so i can eventually sell it. baby steps, though.
Fuck yeah! I am excited for you :) Remember, start slow, and if you skated in your youth don’t be bummed if you can’t do the same tricks right away/progress seems slower than it should. Just cruising around is fun as shit no matter who you are (once you get used to maintaining the necessary balance/speed control techniques).
Signed, dude in his 30s who stops and restarts skateboarding on a schedule dictated by ankle injuries.
yikes! hope the ankles get better!
thanks for the kind words! i am def gonna be rusty, but since im older im not really focused on tricks or anything like that (yet). im gonna focus on the basics & mostly cruising around/getting my body moving.
didnt see an active skating comm on lemmy but hoping to help change that bc i am super stoked!
That sounds like great fun! What do you like doing with it?
i used to try to learn tricks and such, but i think this time around i will mostly use it for commuting around town/cruising.
Tri clad stainless steel cookware. Getting rid of non-stick pans for healthier living. They’re still a thing to get used to, right heat settings and such, but I’m excited.
I bought a classic Kamado Joe last year. It was a spicy meatball but the meats I make on it are far and above anything I would make with a cheap smoker and it gives me the option to use it as a grill not just a smoker.
Sony WF-1000XM5s. The ANC is better than anything I have tried in years. I got them because I tried loops and was disappointed with how little they did. The quality of music through them is a really positive secondary purpose for me.
I have XM4s and MDR-v6 headphones. Sony headphones are great.
Heat pump water heater, and fuck yeah, it’s neat!
I moved out to the middle of nowhere for work. The sky is amazing at night, so I don’t run visible lights outside. It’s dark as hell. I picked up a set of night vision. Pricey but worth it.
Electronic Unicycle: it’s likely going to kill me, but it’s a ton of fun to ride. Mines capable of 60mph/95kmph. Took about a week to ride confidently but definitely worth it.Whhhaaattt?? 60mph?! What brand, I must know!
InMotion Cruiser models. Currently out of stock :(
O.o I had no idea the specs had improved so much on these things. Range of over 80 miles? That’s insane.
Thank you for the sauce, I really appreciate it! (°▽°)/
Never in my life did I expect to get excitement and antipation waiting on our very first manure spreader to arrive but here I am, cannot wait for it to get here.
Let me tell you, if you need a manure spreader and don’t have one…shit piles up quick.
We redid the kids/guest/common bathroom recently. But I bought a pretty pricey toilet for the second bathroom that’s closer our our room. It has a seat warmer and a washlet seat. I build and remodel houses for work so a lot of my week is using a portable toilet. I figured weekends should be a little nicer and parts of me deserved some pampering. Man, I was right. 10/10 would recommend.
I bought a dehumidifier in January it was a couple of hundred. I fucking love it don’t know how I lived without it.
crazy, I was thinking of buying an humidifier!
I got a cheap ultrasonic-type humidifier recently and it was a huge mistake. The water particulates killed one of my houseplants and put two more on life support.
I definitely felt more comfortable with it around but I’m gonna have to get a different type next winter.
It’s 100% worth it! I got a delonghi Tbf I’ve only had it since December so I can’t comment on longevity, but clothes dry far faster and I don’t have manky black bits on the kitchen wall.
I’m not sure if it’s worth it yet because it has not been delivered yet, but it’s a new Synthesiser I’ve wanted for a number of years.
Looking forward to the wave of creativity that usually follows when I get new gear
As a tinkerer musician, even a mini MIDI keyboard with some drum pads and minor synth options was 🔥 I can’t imagine a full on synth! 🤘🏻
Whatcha getting?
I grabbed the OP-1 Field off the back of their (sorta) choose your own price thing they’re doing this month.
I’ve messed around with a friend’s original OP-1 a number of times and I just find it a really creative way to get some ideas down quickly. It’s also quite different from my usual workflow, so it means I don’t fall into the same comfortable techniques.
Oh that is interesting. I always think those little TE units sound great and I love what others do with them in live jams, but the price and workflow makes my brain wince. It’s cool to see them experimenting with pricing. Taking yourself into unfamiliar workflows sounds like a great way to steer yourself toward different results.
I’m relatively new in my journey with keyed instruments. I went into it originally wanting a synth of some sort, but the gf says her ears bleed from me watching gear video. I ended up with a Mark I Rhodes, and that lead me to taking piano lessons, so now I’m at the opposite end of where I started, though I hook my Roland piano to a laptop to play with VSTs and I have a Verselab to do electronic stuff when she’s out doing stuff.
It’s amazing how different the Rhodes, the piano, and a synth or organ are to use in a way that sounds correct, even though they all look like the same instrument. I feel I developed a lot musically from messing with all of them and I’ve learned to appreciate sounds and styles and genres I never would have pictured myself as interested in before.
I hope you have a lot of fun with it!
Had to get PC upgraded bcus old one don’t work any more . Has enough VRAM for local image generation , ftmp don’t hafta deal with limitations of online generation services anymore !
I went to engineering school in the US. Twice.
No. Lol.
Come to Europe. The Fraunhofer needs engineers.
new glasses for €1300. they had to be customised to fit my head. so far, they have fucked up my prescription twice. so no.
Sorry to hear
