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Image 1 — FYI : Reedin chicken loop fits on F-one lynx bar
Image 2 — FYI : Reedin chicken loop fits on F-one lynx bar
▲ 5 r/Kiteboarding

FYI : Reedin chicken loop fits on F-one lynx bar

A little context:

My chicken loop broke mid jump, and the bar was obly 2years and 1 month years old. So technically it was out of waranty. I asked F-one if they could cover this under warranty or make a coulance. But they refused. They only sell the quick releases completely but they cost €99.

So i decided to check what works to fix it on my own.

With this youtube video and advice from guys in this awesome community. I could repair this with a Reedin chicken loop which only costed me €40.

u/Maxime2107 — 11 days ago
▲ 4 r/chefknives

Are Zwilling Prof. S : 200 + 160 + 100 (mm) chef's knives worth it for a deal of 89€? They are my first knives I would buy as an amateur chef. And i want something durable

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u/Maxime2107 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/Kiteboarding

Chicken loop broke F-one

My chicken loop on my quick release broke on my
F-one Lynx bar.

The bar was just 2 years and 1 month old (classic ://). So i don’t think they will cover this under warranty.

And I can’t seem to find a site where they sell only the chicken loop. Because the quick release already cost €99. And i don’t think it’s word the price of buying the whole quick release, because my lines would also need to be replaced soon, and that also costs 180€.

Are other chicken loops compatible with the F-one
quick release? And does anyone have experience repairing/changing the chicken loop on F-one bars?

u/Maxime2107 — 2 months ago
▲ 33 r/Kiteboarding

Jump advice

I have a feeling i oversteer my kite too much before jumping.
Like i jump when the kite is pas 12:00.
The orange kite =10m²
The blue kite = 13m²

I also find it easier to jump higher with waves to use it as a 'ramp'. But then i sometimes over-rotate and do an unexpected backroll.

u/Maxime2107 — 4 months ago
▲ 2 r/bose+1 crossposts

Planning to use a refurbished HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini to revive my dead Bose SoundTouch speakers, sanity check?

Hey r/minipc community,

Bose killed the SoundTouch cloud service back in May 2026, which bricked most of the streaming functionality on my speakers. I'm trying to bring them back to life using SoundTouch Hybrid 2026, a community project that replaces Bose's cloud with a self-hosted setup (Music Assistant as the audio backend + a custom web app that talks directly to the speakers' local WebSocket/XML API).

I found a cheap refurbished mini PC for this and want a reality check before pulling the trigger.

The hardware I'm considering

HP EliteDesk 705 G4 Mini (refurbished)

  • CPU: AMD PRO A10-9700E (quad-core, 3.0–3.5GHz boost, integrated Radeon R7)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR4 stock (I know see questions below)
  • Storage: 256GB SSD
  • OS: ships with Windows 11 Pro planning to wipe it for Debian or Ubuntu Server
  • Ports: 6x USB, 2x DisplayPort, RJ-45, headphone/mic combo
  • Dimensions: 177 x 175 x 34mm

What I need it to run

  • Docker + Docker Compose
  • Music Assistant (handles Spotify, TuneIn, etc. the audio engine)
  • SoundTouch Hybrid 2026 (the bridge app that replaces the dead Bose app)

Nothing video-related, no transcoding just audio routing to a handful of SoundTouch speakers around the house.

Questions for the sub

  1. Is 4GB RAM going to choke this, or is it fine for two lightweight containers + a few speakers? It supports up to 32GB via SODIMM, so I'll likely bump it to 8 or 16GB regardless — just trying to figure out if that's mandatory or just nice-to-have for this specific use case.
  2. Anyone running Music Assistant on similar-spec hardware (older Bristol Ridge AMD APUs)? Curious how it actually behaves at idle/load vs. the usual N100 benchmarks everyone posts.
  3. Is wiping Windows for Linux worth the effort here, or would Docker Desktop on Windows be fine given the low RAM ceiling?
  4. Any gotchas specific to this exact model BIOS quirks, NIC/driver issues on Linux, anything that bit you with the 705 G4 specifically?
  5. How much harder is this compared to just running it on a Raspberry Pi? I've seen mixed opinions on whether x86 minis are actually simpler for Docker workloads than ARM boards.

I was also eyeing N100 mini PCs as the "safe" modern option, but this HP showed up secondhand at a good price and I'm already comfortable with Debian, so leaning this way unless someone talks me out of it.

Appreciate any real-world experience this is my first "proper" home server project instead of just running stuff on a Pi. Because the raspberry pi 5 really JUMPED in price it went from €80 to €180 in a coupe of months bcs of the AI boom

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u/Maxime2107 — 4 months ago