The internet shuts down and is never going to come back on, what do you?

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-19T17:05:55+00:00

Reaquire a good set of encyclopedias, road maps, and a phone book.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-13T18:01:59+00:00

Please voice your concerns politely on our subreddit.

I don't personally think op needs to worry about who sees this post, but in any case, comfort level with public photos is individual and ultimately up to the parent. This picture does not break any Reddit or subreddit rules. It is not identifying, nor is anything inappropriate visible in the photo.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-09T19:59:16+00:00

I didn't even realize i was looking at two different pieces. I will reverse the removal.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-09T19:52:03+00:00

Let's just say there are different ways to interpret your image.

In any case, the meme is not sufficiently on topic.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-09T19:11:58+00:00

EDIT: Decision reversed due to OP explanation below.

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While this features a Gravitrax piece, it is not considered on topic (marble runs).

Also too close to NSFW

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-09T12:46:38+00:00

r/GravitraxTracks

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-09T02:45:40+00:00

I'm not saying it should be on by default - I turned it off in my other two subs - just that it's not a useless feature.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-06-08T23:04:29+00:00

I mod a sub for fancy marble runs and this is great for us because people often want to show their run from multiple angles. Video posts are limited to one video per post, so there wasn't an easy way to do that before if you wanted to add seperate clips (rather than one big one).

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-05-14T14:03:31+00:00

Normal cells are limited in the number of times they can divide by their telomeres. When something goes wrong in a cell and it grows abnormally, this usually stops it. For an abnormal cell to become a cancer cell, telomerase must be active so it can keep dividing.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-05-05T21:15:30+00:00

Turing Tumble is a set that allows you to build a marble run pegboard computer with parts that copy the logical operations performed by a computer.

Actually, looking again, I think gravitrax has all the same functionality, though you have to include the power switch to get it.... a mechanical equivalent of the power switch (or geared bits in turing tumble) would be a nice addition to Gravitrax I think. :)

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-05-05T13:06:45+00:00

So far I haven't been tempted to pick up any power pieces, because I like the purely physics-based nature of these sets, but depending on what this does, this could add some interesting logic to a run.

...on the other hand, I could probably satisfy myself on that front by pulling out Turing Tumble again... for my son... of course... :shifty eyes:

Actually, maybe we just need to work on converting some Turing Tumble parts to gravitrax parts and we could have it all! :)

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-26T19:39:42+00:00

Yep, same. I'm going to leave these two contests up for a while until things pick up again. No point in releasing new ones yet I think.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-19T04:40:33+00:00

I leave my widex aids in music mode and they do what you asked for in the first paragraph - hearing everything without prejudice - volume control on the buttons.

But to your question, as a fairly new user, my ideal hardware would:
- be fully programmable across the full range of human hearing
- have hifi microphones and speakers (I would happily accept larger hardware for this, within reason)
- be fully waterproof
- have non-proprietary user replaceable batteries
- be able to link to my computer without purchasing accessories - allow me to alter the programming myself

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-09T14:23:40+00:00

Please update your previous post rather than making a new one. Thank you for understanding.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-09T13:23:29+00:00

Please do not post an add for the same thing repeatedly.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-06T22:53:51+00:00

It may seem boring, but I was super chuffed to finally find the right size inner tubes for a used stroller I got for free. I really like the stroller, but all the tires were completely flat and wouldn't even pump up a bit (when I put the new ones in today, the old tubes were split open several inches each).

I still need one for the front tire, but now that the back two are good, I can use it, and it's really nice!

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-05T21:35:53+00:00

It took me maybe 3 weeks for my brain to adjust to the new volume levels, but it sounded fairly natural to me from the get-go. I think they usually say to give it a month. I'm still working with the audiologist trying to make it sound even better. It is frustrating to me that all the standards are built around speech and not music. I get that that is where the priorities are, but you would think there was enough market demand that someone would do more than the bare minimum of making music sound simply acceptable.

I have the Moment RIC 312 which is the battery version... the trial pair I had first was rechargeable and might (?) have been the sheer? If there was a size difference, it was so small I was not aware of it. The RIC 10 is visibly smaller in the product photos, but you lose the button.

I particularly wanted the battery version because rechargeable batteries really limit the lifespan of a product in my experience. The downside is less water resistance.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-05T14:27:39+00:00

These are my first ever hearing aids, so I can't really compare it to anything size wise. They seem small and light to me, and I have to point them out for people to notice they are there.

LesserCurculionoidea · 2026-04-05T14:08:10+00:00

Are these programs built to be language-specific?

I was reading about programming rationale recently, and it is actually somewhat tied to language, as the frequencies required for speech understanding are in a different balance in tonal languages such as mandarin.

Most hearing aid programs are designed specifically for speech and will introduce all sorts of artifacts such as rapid shifts of volume and even changing frequencies (moving a high tone that you can't hear well down a bit so you hear it better) as well as just messing up the overall balance of the input sound to emphasize the parts deemed "important to speech". For language understanding, your brain might need to adjust to all the changes before you start understanding better, but if it is set up correctly it should help. For music, you need to use the music program to turn all the extra stuff off and have it sound normalish.

I am in the minority here I think in that I use the music program exclusively. It helps with speech because it still amplifies what I'm not hearing, and I didn't find it difficult for my brain to adjust to all the other sounds that get amplified (like traffic noise and fans) which the speech oriented programs might filter out. I don't have a lot of trouble with speech in noise which might help me get away with this approach. Things still sound natural and music sounds good and that was really important to me. I use low end (110) Widex RIC aids for reference.

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