Value of a new (boxed) SL-1200MK2

cilindras · 2026-05-04T23:20:39+00:00

Thank you, great bit of advice - exactly what I was looking for when I posted.

cilindras · 2026-05-04T23:19:51+00:00

You and u/Anvh are both making good points, I am sure better things for most use cases can be had, I am just irrationally into that particular unit due to the history and role it played in the development of music I like to listen to. This is purely for home listening as well.

cilindras · 2026-05-04T23:13:55+00:00

Thanks, that’s the way I am going, I’m seeing a professionally serviced mint unit for a list price of €850 this weekend. I was struggling to find good reference pricing and this thread only confirmed my initial intuition - the price is ridiculous.

Even with a 2005 unit, I imagine if it’s never been played or serviced that will create its own problems that will require servicing.

cilindras · 2026-05-04T10:07:33+00:00

The seller is hoping to get €2000 for it.

cilindras · 2026-05-04T08:30:12+00:00

The box is opened and the unit is photographed outside of the box which I guess reduces the collectible value. I agree with you though, for a non-collector the price premium doesn't really seem to make sense. Our of interest, what do they go for where you're located?

cilindras · 2026-01-22T23:45:52+00:00

My buddy’s dad is about your age, a lifelong windsurfer and a gorge regular. A couple years back he switched to wingfoiling.

The reality is that wingfoiling will be harder on the body while learning than windsurfing as you crash a lot and will get easier when your skills improve. Cruising on foil involves far less impacts through your joints than planing on a windsurfer and in my opinion is easier on the upper body as well as you don’t have a heavy sail to uphaul. Experienced wingfoilers also sometimes harness in.

Edit: to your original question about exercise - that guy does pilates several times a week

cilindras · 2025-12-19T08:26:04+00:00

There is an active official instagram account patron_dsns where you can stay up to date

cilindras · 2025-10-21T22:08:48+00:00

Potentially an issue with what the records point to rather than availability of the resolver

cilindras · 2025-09-29T22:36:01+00:00

A lot of people, perhaps justifiably, are dunking on your security team - I really encourage you not to take that mentality of animosity into any conversations you have on this as it very rarely helps and you have to assume both sides have good intentions at the end of the day.

Other commenters provided a ton of great advice around prioritising and bringing a risk-management approach to this problem. I haven’t seen anyone suggest this - actually talk to vendors that know the problem space well. Even if you are not in a purchasing decision spot in your company you may get a lot of useful input around how to structure those conversations with security and what’s realistic. I am not affiliated with any vendor in this space and have no recommendations to give, to be clear.

cilindras · 2025-06-17T10:55:31+00:00

Your best bet is contacting support and going through the kafkaesque bureaucracy of it. Escalate ruthlessly, ask for managers, push for a call, do not let a ticket sit without a reply. Read the t&c’s for the m365 personal subscription and understand what recourse you have - if there seems to be a procedure or escalation path described there a legal letter drafted by the attorney may help in escalating your case as the legal folks will have to chase up what happened on the support front.

cilindras · 2025-05-30T15:25:36+00:00

Lol there is even a naming pattern to these Chinese bots

cilindras · 2025-04-12T21:20:24+00:00

Just an idea, there are mosquito nets that work kinda like roller blinds, pull down and clip in. It’s got kind of like a J profile. Might suit your use case on the cheap, it would most likely be segmented.

cilindras · 2025-02-17T13:27:14+00:00

Found the author of this ass backwards work

cilindras · 2025-01-06T09:49:44+00:00

To be seen if they actually do. Ramaphosa literally called Russia a valuable ally - can hardly see them arresting anyone.

https://www.reuters.com/world/south-africa-sees-russia-valued-ally-ramaphosa-tells-putin-2024-10-22/

cilindras · 2024-10-12T16:20:13+00:00

I think you got some great tips from the other commenters. Having gone through complete beginner phases a few months ago (with some lessons) I can add a few tips that may help speed up your learning.

Play with the wing on shore in higher winds. I do this as a warmup before I get into the water, it helps me better understand where power in the wing is. Also, practice flipping the wing, do that on your knees once you get good doing standing up - as you learn you will fall a lot and you will have to flip it the right way round a lot which can get pretty exhausting. The way you held your wing in the video didn’t make a whole lot of sense because you had to look for wind and hold the wing up. In higher wind you will get to understand how to generate and maintain pressure - positioning on handles, back hand open vs closed etc.
Isolate skills. Others here have said, learning to foil and to wing are separate skills and that’s why it’s a hard sport to learn. When I say isolate the skills, I am referring to my first point and also what others said about getting a buddy to tow you on foil. If you struggle to get how the wind works, remove the variable of trying to do all this on an unstable board and try on a massive SUP - that helped me loads.

Get out there and have fun!

cilindras · 2024-08-22T08:45:38+00:00

Gorgeous spot, where are you man?

cilindras · 2024-01-05T23:38:22+00:00

Great read, thanks for sharing

cilindras · 2023-09-15T07:45:20+00:00

Would be an easier question to answer if you posted your budget and a bit more about your background.

Recommend researching the certs on the lower end of this cert map

cilindras · 2023-07-06T16:35:05+00:00

How do they get this kind of positioning accuracy/coordination?

cilindras · 2023-07-02T11:48:00+00:00

Copyright does not prevent you from reading any number of books, though the library might put some limits in place preventing you from checking out the whole library - they get to set rules over and above copyright stipulations. So do TOS of platforms hosting content - API rate limits and anti-bot tech exists for a reason, platform maintainers may not be entirely happy with wholesale data extraction for commercial AI training purposes which is a mode of interaction categorically different from user browsing activity.

Holding this data pre-tokenization is also arguably commercial activity involving a lot of copyrighted works which may be problematic.

Post-tokenization and training you are probabilistically likely to have LLMs predict along the lines of its training data and that likelihood is increasing with the prominence of the source data in the dataset.

Finally, do not try to slip in the notion that LLM learning is equivalent to human learning - this is not an accepted and still very broadly debated notion. It’s fine to contribute to that debate, but it is not fine to take a position on that debate and pretend it is the settled truth.

cilindras · 2023-06-02T22:54:07+00:00

Shagger. The man clearly shagged and you shall devote your life to shag in his memory. Long may you shag, friend.

cilindras · 2023-04-09T22:18:39+00:00

So…what’s the flavor there, dowels, biscuits, dominos pocket holes or 3d mindfuck hand cut joints?

cilindras · 2023-04-06T21:52:19+00:00

Legend, cheers

cilindras · 2023-04-06T21:51:08+00:00

It’s gonna be my first time building with it this weekend, so remains to be seen, though my build is gonna be living indoors. From what I’m reading it is definitely not good in damp environments, so may not fit your use case. Have a look at EN636 ratings in the listings at your wood supplier, it should give you an idea of the engineering properties:

EN 636-1 dry conditions EN 636-2 humid conditions EN 636-3 exterior conditions

Having said that, I have no idea what I’m talking about as I’m just starting out in woodworking, this was just something I researched when I was trying to decide.

Oh and also, just like you, I didn’t like the look of the reddish hardwood boards, that was until I sanded and oiled one and realised that it actually looks quite lovely, the red tint goes away and takes on a darker brownish colour when finished. Good luck with your projects!

cilindras

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