bstix

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 4 days ago

Well, then, why isn't Kentucky more feminist? It's about as homogenous as Sweden.

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

Does the future look any brighter for fossil fuels?

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

Jeg kan forestille mig at traileren er mere værd end vingummibamserne. Den kører nok rundt i Rusland nu.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He failed upwards his entire life, and now he's just failing.

Remember that he initially only ran for president to grift the campaign money. He never intended to win in the first place. It bit him in the ass because there's no turning back now. He has to stay in power until he dies or else he will face ... consequences ... for the first time in his life.

As if. I had really hoped to see a police officer bonk trump's head on the way into the car, during the first and second impeachments, but let's face it, it's just not going to happen. Everyone, not just his opponents or even enemies, not just the GOP or even his family, but even HE would be better off if he had a fucking heart attack and just died. A complete failure as a human being. Can't even die right.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 9 points 4 days ago

We want to see your peepee. - GOP

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 10 points 4 days ago

Tax dollars at work.

You actually think that because USA spends the most money on military that they'd have the most valuable military? I'm sorry to inform you that perhaps the military is in the same shape as your health care, which is also the most expensive in the world.

Grifting is a hell of a politic to count on when you actually need the stuff that you've already paid for.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Trying to censor kids shows isn't feasible. They're going to find out anyway, or it will be a massive culture shock when they eventually hear their first swear word as adults. I'd rather take the opportunity to talk with my kids about it if they watch crap.

SpongeBob doesn't really bother me, but if they watch Alvin and the Chipmunks I always ask them to use headphones, because I can't stand that shit.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

but can't afford one

It's worthwhile to run all the figures through a spreadsheet.

I borrowed money to get one. The savings justify the interest. Mine will break even this year after 5 years. After that, it's pure savings, so I really couldn't afford not to.

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

Driving home for ~~christmas~~ Eid.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

De har stjålet hele sættevognen, så de smider vel bare en anden pressening på og parkerer den et sted.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Slightly off topic, but I've come to notice that boomers with chainsaws sound a lot like gun nuts. They'll find any justification to cut down trees while preaching about chainsaw safety and the correct ways to cut down trees.

Then if they are ever allowed to trim a branch off a tree they'll go full chainsaw massacre on the entire forest with no regard to safety or reasoning.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by bstix@feddit.dk to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
 
 
 
 

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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