Thank you thank you for this perspective!! I've always had trouble finding community in some groups that are so focused on gear. I rarely know enough about gea

Thank you thank you for this perspective!! I've always had trouble finding community in some groups that are so focused on gear. I rarely know enough about gear to carry on a conversation for more than a few minutes, and even if I did I'd be soooo remarkably bored. I’m the kind of person who puts on an ordinary pair of beat-up old shoes past their reasonably serviceable limit and goes on a hike over terrain that really should require spikes.. (shrug) This "gear as a hobby" carries over to computers too. People who get into custom keyboards, tweaking every detail of their work setup, nerding out about an extra X or Y on some machine. Rarely do these excitements seem to align with important engineering constraints. But it's a collecting/gear hobby. Hmmm, interesting..