bstix

joined 2 years ago
[–] bstix 2 points 2 hours ago

I can drive for two hours and still be in the same roundabout.

[–] bstix 8 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Det er ikke ment som et humble brag fra min side. Jeg syntes der er milevid forskel på at være rigtig rig og så på at være i stand til at overtale sin bank til at lægge penge i mit prepping home.

[–] bstix 12 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Jeg har købt et sommerhus. Det er mange år siden jeg købte hus, så jeg havde lykkeligt glemt alt det papirarbejde der er i det.

Når man køber sådan et lille bitte billigt gammelt hus, så bliver det helt tydeligt hvor mange penge der forsvinder op i den blå luft til banken, realkreditinstituttet og forsikringer. Jeg sparede så advokaten væk denne gang, men det er alligevel ca.15% af det samlede lånebeløb som er væk inden nøglen overhovedet blev overdraget.

Havde jeg ventet et års tid og sparet op til en større udbetaling, så kunne jeg have undgået realkreditlån og istedet lavet det hele på variabelt banklån. Det havde været billigere og enklere. Men ak, det er jo typisk. Det er dyrt iog besværligt kke at have mange penge.

[–] bstix 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It's more about set theory than the actual numbers.

Let's say you have 100 people with everyone tied up across both tracks. Heads on one track and legs on the other. Let's assume they die if the train touches any part of them, but you still need to choose between running over heads or legs.

The best choice is then legs, because there's a probability of some of them being handicapped and not having legs.

[–] bstix 2 points 1 day ago

Guess I was wrong. Maybe it adds up.

[–] bstix 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never said I was good at counting.

[–] bstix 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The real numbers also includes the integers.

The practical consequence of this example is that the integers die regardless of what you choose.

However infinitely many people will survive if you choose the first option.

[–] bstix 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I counted the letter "o". It doesn't match up.

[–] bstix 3 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't think too much into it. I guess that most users here just don't have older kids yet, so they might lack the perspective of being the ones to give advice that kids don't listen to.

My own kids aren't that old yet and will still listen, but I really hope that one day they will stop listening, because then I know I've taught them to be independent.

[–] bstix 6 points 1 day ago

Listen to? No, I worship it.

The sitcom themes from the 70s and 80s are the dopest shit ever composed.

Theme from Taxi

[–] bstix 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Breaking: This is what they don't want you to see!

the legs

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Tinghøjtårnet (feddit.dk)
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196 pieces rule (files.catbox.moe)
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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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Ungdomsboliger (files.catbox.moe)
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Lemmy's årlige "place" er begyndt, hvis I har lyst til at deltage. Jeg har dårligt tid i år, men et par pixels skal der nok blive tid til. Reglerne er vist ligesom sidste år.

https://toast.ooo/post/4031953

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Hobro -søndag 22:10 (files.catbox.moe)
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