PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 7 months ago

We’re spread pretty uniformly throughout the Lemmyverse. There are active anarchist communities (all /c/anarchism on their respective instances) on lemmy.dbzer0.com, slrpnk.net, lemmy.ml, and hexbear.net.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 7 months ago

Red pill.

I’d apply myself in high school, force myself to be sociable as a child, graduate with my bachelor’s degree 4-6 years earlier with a better GPA, and get work experience and savings well before the COVID-19 pandemic. (I would try to stop it, but if someone told me that they had exact knowledge of the future, I wouldn’t believe them, and frankly I would be worried if people believed me without further evidence.)

I don’t need or want $10 million.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 7 months ago

But merely being able to communicate with people has never been sufficient to make peace with them, at least from my experience. Otherwise I’d be much more popular with people, because I never had trouble reading, listening to, and writing to people, but I’m not good at talking to people. I typically need a lot more prior information (i.e. cultural norms, dictionary of body language, recent local history, a catalog of an individual’s interests and their definitions, etc.) to talk to people effectively, which I often don’t have or acquire by fucking up enough times to figure it out by hand 🙃.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago

Electric current is actually carried by a bunch of microscopic bats. A battery contains thousands of these microscopic bats. A tery is a former battery that has been depleted of its bats i.e. a dead battery.

Batteries are extremely dangerous because bats are known to carry rabies. Additionally, Harry Nyquist et. al. figured out on April 20th, 1969 that batteries with rabid bats can deliver more energy than batteries with healthy bats, so they are more dangerous now than they used to be. The bats are so rabid in home power systems that the rabies can kill you instantly if the bats get to you.

As a result, batteries may only be used in devices that cover the batteries in a protective case. Additionally, the protective cover helps shield the bats’ echolocation from loud noises from outside the case so that current doesn’t get lost. Actually, this effect is why telephones sound so distinct: the current-carrying bats are getting lost as they fly towards the speaker because their echolocation is being disturbed by your voice.

/joke.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago

“I saw the face bussy of god and was purified” - stephan 2023

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I have. Currently too busy coping with life falling apart to watch YouTube courses 🙃.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago

Me irl

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Actually I tried out KDE Plasma on my grandmother’s budget laptop from about the same time. It was a little too slow with default settings, but once I killed the animations (can be done in Settings app) it ran pretty well. It ran a whole hell of a lot better than the Windows it came with.

I also tested KDE vs XFCE in my old gaming computer, and I actually managed to get slightly less RAM usage in KDE than XFCE, so long as no plugins were used.

Both systems were tested with Debian 12. On the gaming PC, I actually used the XFCE iso, so it was installed first.

So depending on how your distro ships the default KDE Plasma settings or how you set it up, it actually can be a lightweight option compared with XFCE.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago

Everyone gets a comment, but no one gets to poop. It’s just how we do it here.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 8 months ago

Oof ouch my eyeballs

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 9 months ago

Not yet, but I will when I get a job. I want to give back to the community, but I can’t afford it right now.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

1. Violin so I can play sick violin solos over metal music.
2. Drums so I can play blast beats all day in literally every local metal band.
3. Saxophone so I can do this.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 10 months ago

You don’t need a physical keyboard to use MIDI technology. Many audio production programs have a virtual keyboard that will let you play basic stuff with your computer keyboard. However, I sequenced my entire metal album’s drum track by just clicking and dragging all the notes in the editor. (Not gonna post it because I don’t want to dox myself.) You can get Ardour (which can sequence MIDI amongst other things) for free through your Linux distribution, and I believe it can be found for Windows. Else, Reaper is technically not free, but you can use the demo for as long as you want.

All of this is to say that you don’t need any training or equipment to start playing electronic music, particularly that using MIDI technology. A couple hours here and there will be enough to start producing competent music.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 year ago

Mostly extreme metal, moreso since going back to college, but I also like post-rock, shoegaze, and classical amongst other things. Try this out for size.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S, 1 year ago

I’m not a Connect dev and the app is not open source yet, so I can’t quantitatively give you an answer. As a user, it’s been working fine for me on all feeds.

I recommend posting something in the Connect for Lemmy community. If a feature is broken, the dev probably wants to hear about it.