bstix

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm all for self-reliance, but only if it's realistic.

If your opponent in a negotiation is not self-reliant, then you shouldn't be either.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

How?

The knights can defend at least two attacks.

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

We shouldn't transport electricity long distances. It makes much more sense to set up more local production instead.

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

It's pretty straight forward I think. Each side loses one piece every round. If white somehow runs out of pawns that can check the black king, or if the black king manages to get behind the pawns, white can still promote some of them and win.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 11 points 1 day ago

Like a shoplifter getting caught but actually totally planned on paying for that thing.

Who the fuck cares what they say now. There was no misunderstanding.

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

The issue with 1988 is that it isn't intuitive what the background color is, and thus if the bar is up or down.

The middle years are obvious because of the 3d effect. The last one is obvious because the background is the same for both the arrows and the bar.

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

Det hører med til historien at det også gælder private virksomheder, og at praksis har været forkert i mange år. Det er muligt at gøre krav 10 år tilbage.

Jeg er bekendt med at nogle virksomheder har benyttet 0-timers kontrakter for tilkaldevikarer. De vil i så fald have krav på overtidsbetaling for alle deres arbejdstimer i de seneste 10 år. Så enkelt er det. Hvis du har arbejdet flere timer end der står i kontrakten, så er det overarbejde.

Det er rigtigt rigtigt mange penge, og kan potentielt resultere i mange konkurser.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago

He's 83 years old.

If you've ever been around 83 year olds, you'll know they're eager to perform any old song from their youth at any random time. They also have no intention of understanding any of contemporary politics, customs or even the current situation.

I love that about music. It's the first thing we learn and the last thing we forget.

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

You were late by crow time.

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

I'd tell myself to prioritize my hobbies over partying. Be serious about the music and join a band. Move to a bigger city.

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

A luxury resort is the perfect cover for a lot of criminal activity.

It's gated off, so nobody from outside can see what's going on. It's basically an entire city, so they use all kinds of services and nobody asks why they need weird pool cleaning chemicals or expensive art which may or may not even exist. Clean money comes flowing in from guests who prepaid the entire stay, and nobody can audit what services were actually provided.

They can also house all the illegal immigrant workers, so they don't need to go outside in the real society. These workers can also be moved to other locations easily, when the "Illuminati" needs new blood in MarLago or Epstein island.

So if you want to whitewash money to pay assassins and dispose of dead bodies while cooking meth and trafficking prostitutes: A luxury resort might just be the thing for you.

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

Not likely to change.

If Sweden or Finland invaded Åland, it would destroy the only resource that it has: Tax evasion.

 
 
 

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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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bstix@feddit.dk to c/fedditdk@feddit.dk
 

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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