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  1. Comment on How close should you live to a park? in ~enviro

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    My house is less than a 20 minute walk to a park, and I live sorta on the outskirts, my friend's house where I stay a lot is across the street from a festival field that has a tot lot, and 15...

    My house is less than a 20 minute walk to a park, and I live sorta on the outskirts, my friend's house where I stay a lot is across the street from a festival field that has a tot lot, and 15 minute walk to the biggest park in town

    I can say there is never too many parks though, I'd like to see even more and we have a bunch, I never really used them from like 20-34, before I was 20 it was where we would drink and smoke pot, and I picked up metal detecting at 34 and go to a park or a school or other grassy area multiple times a week now

    6 votes

  2. Comment on South Korea banned dog meat. So what happens to the dogs? in ~food

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    For me it's the amount of love a dog shows for humans that make me think it's more wrong, to me it'd be like eating a toddler lol but yeah where's the line, how about eating coyote or wolf, what's...

    For me it's the amount of love a dog shows for humans that make me think it's more wrong, to me it'd be like eating a toddler lol but yeah where's the line, how about eating coyote or wolf, what's the difference

    4 votes

  3. Comment on How do you decide when to buy a new computer, smartphone, etc.? in ~tech

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    I get a new smart phone as soon as there is no longer security updates for it anymore, precisely because I use it for online banking As for laptops, I'm still running a really old think pad...

    I get a new smart phone as soon as there is no longer security updates for it anymore, precisely because I use it for online banking

    As for laptops, I'm still running a really old think pad running debian, I think it has 4gb ram and a i5, I dunno, I don't do anything that requires more power, if I did then I would update

  4. Comment on Billions of AI users…? in ~tech

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    I absolutely love AI, when I mean to use it, I have chatgpt and pi AI apps on my phone Ive never once used facebooks AI even though they have it on all the posts, and I've seen overviews searching...

    I absolutely love AI, when I mean to use it, I have chatgpt and pi AI apps on my phone

    Ive never once used facebooks AI even though they have it on all the posts, and I've seen overviews searching stuff before but if I could turn it off I would

    I switched my pixels AI from Gemini or w.e. it's called back to assistant, assistant is so much better, the main reason I use assistant is because when I'm coin roll hunting I can say "1973 Canadian dime" and the first thing it gives me is the link for coins and Canada website which I'm looking for, on Gemini it gives me a blurb I don't need and no option to see links

    Plus I like assistants blurbs better than getting geninis blurbs when you ask it a question, I think assistant scrapes it from websites instead of making it up like gemini

    The day they get rid of assistant and force gemeni on me is the day I may look into running graphene OS on my pixel out of protest, I'll just Install Google services on it so I can use play store apps, so I won't be going totally free software

    I use chat gpt and pi ai every day, but I would like for not everything to be ai, that just makes stuff so annoying for me

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Removed Reddit post: "ChatGPT drove my friends wife into psychosis, tore family apart... now I'm seeing hundreds of people participating in the same activity. " in ~tech

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    I know someone who uses these codex responses which I don't quite understand as entertainment, he calls it the AI game I use AI as a therapist, I tell it I feel unmotivated and adhedronic and it...

    I know someone who uses these codex responses which I don't quite understand as entertainment, he calls it the AI game

    I use AI as a therapist, I tell it I feel unmotivated and adhedronic and it tells me to do small steps like take my recycling out, and change our of my pajamas, and take back the means of production

    Because of AI I am dressed in my metal detecting clothes and I all of a sudden feel like wanting to go out instead of my pajamas scrolling shroomery, I'm a little late compared to the schedule, but at least I will go out when I finish my water

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    Yes I've seen the show before and the movie that wraps it up, it's entertaining, even though I don't know who Simon and garfunkle were

    Yes I've seen the show before and the movie that wraps it up, it's entertaining, even though I don't know who Simon and garfunkle were

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    Yeah okay we had this convo before lol deja Vu, I remember somebody listing the channels they watch and I responded with some I watch, that must have been you

    Yeah okay we had this convo before lol deja Vu, I remember somebody listing the channels they watch and I responded with some I watch, that must have been you

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    I watch Paystreak Superfreak Calabash digger Digging dude Texan detector and coin collector Treasure Outdoors Monterey Magnet Man Walter Lee detecting gopher (me lol) And others not coming to mind

    I watch

    Paystreak Superfreak
    Calabash digger
    Digging dude
    Texan detector and coin collector
    Treasure Outdoors
    Monterey Magnet Man
    Walter Lee detecting
    gopher (me lol)
    And others not coming to mind

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector in ~hobbies

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    I started with coin roll hunting, and saw people with dete tors finding old coins so I wanted to get into it, it's not about the money, maybe if you are in a city you'll find gold once in a while,...

    I started with coin roll hunting, and saw people with dete tors finding old coins so I wanted to get into it, it's not about the money, maybe if you are in a city you'll find gold once in a while, or a Florida or California beach, I only ever found a gold ring once In my town, I find silver jewelry every now and then, and I find about $150 in coins a year

    I just like finding random things, it's the same high as gambling I guess, you never know what's under the coil, some things I found that I think are neat is a sterling silver matchsafe from Victorian times, although it was busted up, early 1800s flat button, a 1900s spoon, a 1900s printing plate, a 1930s adventures of Jimmie Allen pin, a 1940s cap gun, 1936 dog tag from a pet, stuff like that

    7 votes

  10. Gopher's guide to picking a metal detector

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    I'm a fairly new detectorist, only been detecting for 25 months, I've only used five detectors Nokta Simplex Plus, Nokta Legend, Minelab Vanquish 540, XP Deus, XP Deus 2, so most of my knowledge...

    I'm a fairly new detectorist, only been detecting for 25 months, I've only used five detectors Nokta Simplex Plus, Nokta Legend, Minelab Vanquish 540, XP Deus, XP Deus 2, so most of my knowledge of other machines comes from YouTube videos and forum posts, not first hand experience, this post will be all over the place as I didn't plan it out, sort of a stream of consciousness, all prices are in Canadian dollars, it should be cheaper in the USA but with new tarrifs who knows

    I guess the biggest issue budget, machines are expensive, the cheapest machine I think worth getting is $275 and the most expensive general use ones break $2000, specialized machines can be $3000 to maybe $10,000 like pulse induction and imaging machines

    Also, if you want to just hunt parks and such, you can get away only using single frequency machines, but if you want to hunt salt water beaches, or even freshwater beaches with lots of black sand, you are going to want a multifrequency machine that runs multiple frequencies at once

    I am only going to mention on the main three manufacturers in the bulk of this post, Nokta, Minelab, And XP, but at the end I will briefly touch on Garret and Fisher and Bounty Hunter

    I guess first I'll list the single and multifrequency machines, since it depends the environment you want to search

    I don't know if I need to leave a space under each line like reddit, so I will

    The single frequency detectors are;

    Nokta Simplex lite

    Nokta Simplex BT

    Nokta Simplex Ultra

    Nokta FindX

    Nokta FindX PRO

    Minelab Xterra Pro

    XP Deus (1)

    The multifrequency detectors also have single frequency capabilities unless otherwise mentioned, they are;

    Nokta score

    Nokta Double Score

    Nokta Triple Score

    Nokta Legend

    Minelab Vanquish 340 (no single frequency)

    Minelab vanquish 440 (no single frequency)

    Minelab Vanquish 540 (no single frequency)

    Minelab Equinox 600

    Minelab Equinox 800

    Minelab Equinox 700

    Minelab Equinox 900

    Minelab Xterra Elite

    Minelab Manticore

    XP Deus 2

    Our of all those detectors, I don't recommend the vanquish series, even though they work great at the beach, the box is not water proof, a rouge wave could end it's whole career

    I also don't recommend the equinox 600 or the equinox 800 as the suffered from leaking issues and broken coil ears, the 700 and 900 came out addressing those issues

    So, if your budget is on the lower end, and you are never going to go to a salt water beach, or you don't want to fiddle with setting and just want a turn on and go machine, the Nokta FindX Pro is a good choice, it's $275, the cheapest machine released to compete with other cheap Chinese machines on Amazon, there's a YouTuber I know who does very well with it, it's definitely not a toy machine, like a couple I didn't mention, like the Xterra Voyager released for kids by Minelab, and a Nokta one I forget the name

    If your budget is a little more and you will not hit a beach, the simplex machines or the Xterra pro come in next, they have some settings to tweak, and the Xterra pro has selectable frequencies up to 20khz

    I guess this is a good time to put a little blurb about frequencies, lower frequencies like to hit higher conductors like copper or silver

    Higher frequencies like to hit mid to low conductors like gold or iron

    lower frequencies use more battery power and go deeper

    higher frequencies use less battery power and don't go as deep

    higher frequencies will also hit smaller targets than lower frequencies

    On the market there's machines that will go from 4khz to 120khz as of today, a new high frequency coil was released for the XP deus 2, most machines where you can't select a frequency will use somewhere between 10 and 15khz which is a good medium frequency

    And last for the single frequency machines is the XP deus 1, which is a very old machine now, I don't recommend getting it unlss you can get one super cheap second hand, it's still $1000 in stores and if you get the high frequency coil that's another $500, and as of today the deus 2 released it's high frequency coil, so it kinda makes the deus 1 deprecated imo, I can't think of a spot where I would use the deus 1 any more once I get the new coil for the deus 2

    Now for multifrequency machines, like I said the vanquish is a good machine, but there's no single frequency option and it's not water proof, features all other multifrequency machines have

    The score, double score and triple score are water proof, infact the triple score pro pack is the best bang for your buck you can get, it cost $670 and comes with the good elliptical coil, a big coil, a hand digger, a pouch, headphones, a hat, and a pinpointer, basically everything you need to get started, if I was getting my first detector I would strongly consider the triple score pro pack, the detector itself is almost as good as the top tier detectors when it comes to unmasking targets

    The Minelab Xterra elite is a newish release, it's a nice multifrequency machine with a single frequency option and is water proof, it's released to compete with the triple score

    The Nokta legend and Minelab Equinox (700 and 900) were the flagship models for a while for their respective companies, the legend has a few more settings than the triple score, and the equinox has more settings than the Xterra elite and the vanquish, both legend and equinox are water proof, have multifrequency and multiple single frequency options, the legend has single frequency options between 4 and 40khz, and I'm not sure about the equinox but it's probably similar

    The top two machines on the market are the Minelab Manticore and the XP deus 2, both machines cost in the ballpark of $2000

    I don't know much about the Manticore, but it gets high praise from people, the deus 2 has the best audio on the market, the deus 2 is my favourite machine I ever used

    So in summery, I guess if you're on a budget and not hunting the beach, go for simplex, findX, Xterra pro

    If you are on a budget and hunting the beach go for a score machine, the best one in your budget, or a vanquish but be anal about not getting it wet

    If you are not on a budget but don't want to pay $2000 go for the legend, equinox triple score, or Xterra elite, these machines have room to grow into them

    If you sure you will stick with detecting a long time, and you have lots of money, might as well go for a Manticore or deus 2, these machines will be relevant for a long time to come probably

    And I said I'd touch on other brands, bounty hunter you could get if your just curious if you even like detecting, it's about $150 for the tracker iv, and it will find stuff, but it's a very basic machine, I rather use the findX pro

    Garret machines STAY AWAY FROM THE VORTEX, It's been plauged with problems since release, their engineers should be ashamed of themselves, other Garret machines work okay, if you can get one cheap second hand, it could be a way to go, but if you pay full price for one you can get better working machines for the same price range

    Fisher is older, and works okay, again if you can get one second hand for incredibly cheap maybe it would be okay, but they are really outdated, I do want to try the Fisher cz21 but it cost $2000 and i don't want to try it that bad

    If I wasn't clear on something let me know and I'll try to clarify

    25 votes

  11. Comment on I don’t care whether you use ChatGPT to write in ~tech

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    I am uneducated, I don't even know how to write proper paragraphs and such, sometimes I'll feed my work into chatgpt and have it fix it up somewhat, add punctuation, maybe change some words like a...

    I am uneducated, I don't even know how to write proper paragraphs and such, sometimes I'll feed my work into chatgpt and have it fix it up somewhat, add punctuation, maybe change some words like a thesaurus, the base work is mine, but the aesthetics are chatgpt

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget in ~comp

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    Damn it took me too long to realize you meant leet speak, I was thinking 1337 English like ye olde English lol

    Damn it took me too long to realize you meant leet speak, I was thinking 1337 English like ye olde English lol

    1 vote

  13. Comment on What are everyone’s favourite pens and stationery items? in ~creative

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    The lead is stronger, it doesn't break and wears down slower, I just like them cause they don't break, I seen someone on YouTube literally scribble for hours and it wore one down

    The lead is stronger, it doesn't break and wears down slower, I just like them cause they don't break, I seen someone on YouTube literally scribble for hours and it wore one down

  14. Comment on Why blog if nobody reads it? in ~tech

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    I hope one day you photograph the blue footed booby, it's a magnificent bird

    I hope one day you photograph the blue footed booby, it's a magnificent bird

    2 votes

  15. Comment on What are everyone’s favourite pens and stationery items? in ~creative

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    Too stick?? Do you mean thick? They are quite thick, I am not writing long things, just doing grocery lists or bank account math, they are fine for me, maybe if I was doing actual school work...

    Too stick?? Do you mean thick? They are quite thick, I am not writing long things, just doing grocery lists or bank account math, they are fine for me, maybe if I was doing actual school work where I am writing a lot they would get uncomfortable

  16. Comment on What are everyone’s favourite pens and stationery items? in ~creative

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    I've always like pencils better than pens I used to use only mechanical pencils, but I am always breaking the led cause I press down to hard I bought some infinity pencils and they are great, I...

    I've always like pencils better than pens

    I used to use only mechanical pencils, but I am always breaking the led cause I press down to hard

    I bought some infinity pencils and they are great, I can even use them where it's not conductive to write like on a shopping cart and not worry about them breaking

    I wish these were a thing when I was in elementary school

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What are some traditional internet forums that you still use? in ~tech

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    The only thing I can't stand more than people intolerant of other people's cultures, is the Dutch

    The only thing I can't stand more than people intolerant of other people's cultures, is the Dutch

    4 votes

  18. Comment on What are some traditional internet forums that you still use? in ~tech

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    I use Shroomery And Detectorprospector

    I use

    Shroomery

    And

    Detectorprospector

    1 vote

  19. Comment on a/s/l? Tildes user survey question. in ~tildes

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    36/m/Canada Un employed basically a highschool drop out yet they passed me with 50s back in highschool I rarely use tildes, I check in once every few months to see if there's any threads my speed...

    36/m/Canada

    Un employed basically a highschool drop out yet they passed me with 50s back in highschool

    I rarely use tildes, I check in once every few months to see if there's any threads my speed

    I'm not usually into typing out long thoughtfully replies which I think is expected here

    But I love the idea of a reddit alternative

    I spend most of my social media time on reddit, shroomery and Facebook for town issues

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Anyone metal detect? in ~hobbies

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    Sorry for the late reply I rarely use tildes I have two detectors, a nokta legend, and a XP deus one, and my mom has a vanquish 540 that I can borrow whenever I want, they just released the...

    Sorry for the late reply I rarely use tildes

    I have two detectors, a nokta legend, and a XP deus one, and my mom has a vanquish 540 that I can borrow whenever I want, they just released the Minelab Xterra elite and it looks like a decent detector, the cheapest one that's still okay to use is the nokta FindX pro

    I have a mi4 pinpointer, it's my favourite pointer but sometimes they seem to develope issues, I'm on my second one, but if it breaks I'll probably get another, I love it's pitch tones, unique among pointers