bstix

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

If religion is really what stops these people, then religion is covering for mental illness that ought to be addressed instead of hidden away in churches.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Most American cities use a distance or block system.

Most European cities use the odd/even system. Each plot increase by two on either side, so one side of the road has 1,3,5... and the other has 2,4,6...

If a plot is later subdivided or more houses are built on a plot, its new addresses will get post-fixed letters a,b,c,d...

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 11 hours ago (5 children)
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

Or... Hear me out.. You could learn to say no to extra work yourself.

Force the employer to hire the adequate number of employees to cover the shifts that they want covered. That's what their fucking job is. Don't do it for them by being a pushover.

Don't blame the parents for doing what you should be doing.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

So what's the alternative?

Should the boss order them to work on days where they're clearly not going to show up because it would also be illegal for them to leave a child without care?

Family beats work.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hydro is the OG boiled water.

Sun heats water. Water evaporates. Go up high. Falls down. Turn turbine.

Wind power is a side effect of the same process happening on a rotating globe.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (11 children)

Nobody claimed that time off with their children were more important than your time off for your fitness session.

You were just the one who accepted the shift because you can move your fitness session. Your flexibility works in your favor, because you're also the one getting paid for the hours that you decided to work.

You can say no to extra work for no reason. You do not have to make up excuses for not working extra. It is not your boss's job to evaluate which lie is more worthy of not working in their free time.

If your boss ask why you can't cover a shift outside of schedule, just call it what it is: None of his business.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (23 children)

I guess renewables are still cheaper.

At least personally and anecdotally, because it doesn't happen often, but it has happened more than once, that I have purchased electricity at negative prices due to overflow from renewables, which is a hell of lot cheaper than paying a tenth of a cent per kilowatt hour.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It makes more sense when you're comparing month to month development.

If you have a perfectly normal child then it doesn't matter to measure anything and you can call it whatever.

However if you're in a maternity group and all the other children started pointing at things at 13 months and yours doesn't, then it might help to remember that yours was born prematurely and you can expect that behavior at 14 months.

Now, you can convert numbers as much as you please, but this doesn't make sense as 1.08 and 1.16 years. You can say one year and one month and one year and two months, but it does makes sense for everyone in the conversation if you use the conventional method of communication which is 13 and 14 months. Don't even get me started on Tiger leaps. Those come on schedule by the week.

It's convention. If you go to a car mechanic to get new tires, you also don't ask for "big wheels" if you want a 226/40R19.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No doubt. But why does the farmer get the money? It would make more sense for the government to buy the land back for good.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The normal age to stop using months is 2 years.

That's because there's a massive difference between a 12, 18, and 24 months old. It makes sense to have and use different references to separate them.

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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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