bstix

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 5 hours ago

If I can predict it, I'll skip to the last step and just not attempt to do it.

This works because the person who is supposed to remind me of the task has a to-do list that takes about two years to go through. By the time she gets to reminding me it's already irrelevant.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Too fast IMO. You're setting yourself up for a less than ideal situation. The guy is going to come home tired from work to find you there, not even having had the time to take a shit and get cleaned up before beginning to think about wanting to do anything with anyone. Everyone is different for sure, but from a pure practical view you're overstaying your welcome.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 11 points 17 hours ago

It's a stock market index, which roughly shows if the market is going up or down.

In reality it's more like a casino roulette where everyone is betting based on previous wins.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I did not expect that. TIL: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/2026-regulations-explained-all-you-need-to-know-about-f1s-advanced.4h53Szn4Z3VsD6rGcR3LtU

I welcome their research into this, but I don't share their optimism about it making it's way to consumers vehicles. There's no way we can produce enough biofuel to cover the consumption, and carbon capture for fuel doesn't make sense when we can already use the electric energy more efficiently directly.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 18 hours ago

I'm afraid you're overqualified. It's an entry-level job.

Perhaps someone with higher standards like you would be a better fit for our penny-farthing department.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 1 day ago

I don't know about fishing, but I use a portable turntable to listen to records outside.

The power cable is USB, so it runs fine on a powerbank. The speakers are horrible, so I also bring a portable battery powered speaker.

It's not really worth the hassle in comparison to just using a Bluetooth speaker, but it's an excellent way to waste time on a long summers night.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When will they ever learn that the only winners from war are the ones who make peace.

Starting a war is easy. Ending a war is difficult. Winning a war is impossible.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

Sure, but it's difficult to classify which jobs are objectionable and what the price should be for someone to do them anyway.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If they want to pay me to deliver stuff on a unicycle, I'll be delivering stuff on a unicycle. Do I want to ride a unicycle? Depends on the pay.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

Ok, now the cable has to go between the tv and the mount.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the tip. I've needed this, but being too cheapskate to buy a proper one, I've just been balancing my phone on the sheet stand, which sucks.

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I recently got fed up with spending hours making my MIDI devices work in Windows. Everytime I plugged the USB hub with my controllers into Windows, it would reassign the ports and I'd have to use the ancient Korg utility to remove dead ports. This is a really old issue that Microsoft claims was fixed ten years ago, but never was. So I decided to test if Linux can handle MIDI devices better.

It seemed to work fine on an old Mint laptop that I have around, but since I'd rather use the newer laptop and since I still need Windows on that for work, I decided to try out putting everything on a USB stick for portability. Also, the old laptop which I might use sometimes is a bit too slow for Mint, so I needed something smaller.

So, the idea is to put the OS, the DAW, the plug-ins and samples on one single stick. I happened to have a 8gb USB that I found on a parking lot. It's kinda dirty and broken, so I figured it was perfect for the experiment. Yes, I do know that flash drives aren't good for this, and when I'm done playing around, I will probably get an external SSD for this purpose instead.

8gb is not a lot for this, but I like the challenge.

At first I wasted another evening trying to make Slax boot. I gave up and found Poppy Linux instead, since I do want the tiny and persistent kind of installation. It's a bit slow to boot into ram, but it's nice and quick once at the desktop.

For a DAW I got Reaper working just fine simply by extracting the files from the official webpage. No install required.

It recognized my MIDI devices and audio interface instantly. No issues at all, no missing dependencies or drivers or whatever, and better yet: It's still works after rebooting. I made a setup of the devices to control mixer actions in Reaper and that also saves fine as expected.

Now getting plugins is a bit of an issue. It seems that most people run Wine to use VSTs, but I decided to stick with free native Linux plugins and those are somewhat more difficult to find.

So far I've found Helm for a synth and LSP for a samples. I plan on recording real instruments mostly, so I only need the essential stuff.

I was pleasantly surprised that the linux download for LSP also ships with a bunch of effect plug-ins. Highly recommended: https://lsp-plug.in/index.php

I have yet to make any music other than test tracks, but it seems that my idea works so far. The installation is completely independent of which computer I have available, so I guess I will be using Linux in one way or the other to make music going forwards.

 

I get notifications on new messages that don't show in the inbox, and mark as read doesn't clear the message from unread.

Manually switching from all/unread seems to work and clears the read messages

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