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@east@kbin.social

Passionate about technology, playing music, and collecting vinyl.

Find me on Mastodon over at https://cupoftea.social/@east

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y’all, today has been a day. between stress at work and moving to a new apartment in something like 9 days, i am finding it difficult to motivate myself to move a muscle, let alone do anything productive.

how are y’all? is everyone else holding up okay in the face of all this social media shakeup, and anything else you might have going on?

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@mishamouse Good luck with the move! I've been struggling to get motivated as well as I just dropped coffee in favor of tea and the reduction in caffeine has left me with bouts of tiredness over the last two days. Overall still doing good though, can't complain too much. This community received a lot of activity on day 1 of Reddit going dark so that was cool to see.

Do you have any planned vacations? Where to? Do you have a favorite destination?

I currently don't have any planned that I'm looking forward to, but someone I know is currently in Costa Rica for a trip and is having a blast from what I hear. I'm thinking of planning something! I do have availability to do one soon, just not sure where I'd go yet.

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The area around Frisco/Breckenridge/Vail/Copper Mountain (the front range) is very beautiful. I've only been there during the winter and fall for skiing and snowboarding, but I know during the summer they do a lot of bike rentals out of the same shops. Hiking and camping seems plentiful in the summer months. That's pretty much the only area of Colorado I've been to though. I hope you can find a good vacation spot for the family, good luck!

OC How did you end up finding kbin? Did you migrate here from Reddit?

I was initially introduced to Mastodon a few years ago by a close friend and picked up on it quickly given the benefits of not having to deal with advertising, or being shown what a mega-corporation thought I should have to see through algorithms. I have since found a great instance over on cupoftea.social that promotes quality...

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Welcome! Interesting, it sounds like you've been aware of the project longer than myself. I actually just made an account yesterday here after a friend on Mastodon had started a few other communities/magazines. I am curious about Calckey and Akkoma so I will do some additional research and see what they offer. I hadn't heard of either project before you mentioned them. Thanks for sharing.

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Welcome! Totally understandable. Was it Apollo by any chance? I used to use iOS so I bought a lifetime membership to Apollo when it was initially offered. If I had to guess, I'd think most third party apps for Reddit will be closing down unfortunately. I've had a few issues getting this server to load up due to the heavy traffic it's been getting. Hopefully they iron everything out.

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Thank you, appreciate the links!

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Appreciate that!

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That's cool, welcome! Glad to hear you were ahead on that one. I think the inertia is really inspiring. I hope we see even more niche communities adopt the platform and fediverse adjacent options as well.

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Nice! I am currently running the Element nightly build (for Matrix) and it seems pretty nice. It's difficult finding active off-topic/general chats though so far in my experience. Great place though to get support on some things.

famof4, to chat

How exactly does one view a thread’s comments? I can’t seem to get comments to show. Here’s a thread view in its entirety.

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@famof4 I think this is a glitch that happened due to the overwhelming traffic the site has been getting. Is this still happening for you?

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I ordered Fidlar's That's Life EP from Diggers Factory back in March, with an estimated ship date of May that was eventually pushed back to June. The pricing wasn't too bad, but the shipping was steep to the US, at around $10. They've been good about keeping me updated. Thus far I've received emails updating me on the initiation of the project, the masters process before pressing and the initial pressing. This all builds up hype for the actual shipment, which I got a notification on this morning, explaining that my vinyl is finally ready to ship. Very cool. Definitely an atypical ordering experience that reminds me more of participating in a kickstarter than a standard pre-order.

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Picked the new Generationals vinyl up in the mail a few days ago. It's a beautiful pressing in my opinion, was one of 300 on white and pink with black splatter from one of my favorite labels, Polyvinyl. A solid release overall IMO, some real good jams on here. Hope everyone is enjoying their journey building a collection as much as I am!

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