LainTrain

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

Those were such good times, miss the ol' bugger

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

She's far-right too, it makes sense

Neat, I always wanted to get into trackers, I only managed to figure out FamiTracker and "figure out" is an overstatement, I feel like once I see something like "PCM Speed" in addition to standard tempo controls things start to go over my silly little head

That must be a mere fraction compared to just the sheer rent increases though

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for letting me know. Shame it's only in black which kinda kills the point

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Regulatory and taxation pressures? Wouldn't it be mostly due to rising rent prices?

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I just skip the AI stuff same as I'd skip any bad song. If a good song was AI generated I don't mind it honestly, but I've yet to hear one.

In my experience though I've not seen a single AI generated song yet. I discover music primarily from Spotify, at the bottom of my playlists where it shows recommended songs to add, or below songs in the player view where it shows "similar to" or something like that.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I got the "unicomp model M" from KeyboardCo circa 2019 and it was a huge piece of shit, least reliable thing I ever used, apart from the buckling spring switches which felt great it was just the cheapest piece of junk and it worked for like 2 months before breaking. Avoid them.

My longest lasting mechanical keyboard was the Vortex Cypher 65% with Cherry MX Clear switches. Lasted several years, not even an old school Ducky usually did.

Right now I'm using a Ducky One 3 Daybreak SF 65% with Cherry MX Blue switches and it's holding along fine. I also bought a random keyboard on AliExpress for like $50 and was really shocked with the good quality. It was a Yunzii X71 68% with some mystery "Crystal switch", I only got it because it looked neat, I didn't even know it was mechanical, shame about the ugly ANSI layout though, I can't stand not having tilde next to CR when using Linux.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

Also, citizenship is not a thing in US or UK universities eithe

Huh? I was literally an international student in the UK at a UK university for a BSc and an MSc. It's very obviously an incentive. I would say, the incentive. Of course the point of paying £14k a year for a degree was for well-off families of thirdworlders to give their children a better life in the west. My parents had the talk with me even as early as 10, saying that Russia is a politically unstable, backwards shithole, and that if one wants to live a life, one must go west.

They were pretty much spot on of course, given recent events, any amount of money was worth spending to gtfo from there, a life outside the third world is priceless regardless of how bad things get in terms of housing, anti-piracy etc.

In the third world people get treated like animals and so they treat each other like animals, but in the west you get a shot at something more.

Otherwise unless you're specifically going into research where degrees are cred, you're just falling for a pyramid scheme.

I can't speak for everyone of course, but I knew a lot of "international students" since as early as year 9 of school all the way up to MSc and eventually work visas. Almost everyone had plans to settle, and anyone who claimed they weren't doing it for eventual settlement and citizenship was lying to themselves big time lol, all who had it in them to not drop out are still here, counting the days.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"algotythm right right themself notoces thier" to you too.

Also of course it's not just about me, but it helps to put yourself in the shoes of those that will be impacted by this thoughtless censorship law, to try on their perspective for a change. I know that if this impacted me as a kid it would've been fucking awful for reasons I stated prior. You've given no rebuttal to this, so I won't bother waiting for one, or for you to learn to type coherently for that matter.

Also how fucking gross of you to even attempt to conflate something as inconsequential as cyberbullying with real life physical violence. Literally if you don't like the internet just turn the screen off and go outside. I had no such option.

And it's not the youth that's falling for right-wing propaganda, and never has been, look at the data and the polls - almost all right-wing voters are gen-x and boomers. The kids are fine, the call is coming from inside the house.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

How are they going to talk on whatever would be the Skype of today without an account? Are you dense?

Why don't those people who've been allegedly supposedly harassed on social media delete their accounts instead? At least there they have that option, unlike any IRL bullying. I used to get beat up daily in elementary school and wasnt the only one. If anything once the trogs got on the phones life got much better.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's so cool. I love the windows 7 look, really was the true peak of old school desktop OS aesthetics. I use the DWMblur on my desktop PC myself alongside aerotweaker, oldnewexplorer and cracked startisback and some winhawk mods to get a decent look while still being usable but on a hack level this is way cooler.

 

A true classic. Always blown away by this when I watch it stoned.

 

I had a comically bad day yesterday, like dropping things, almost lost my keys down the drain on the sidewalk, spilled soup at the store near a makeup section, almost tore my pants, got back from the store only to find out I was out of TP, etc.

It was more funny than anything else, like so much random trivial bad luck in one day is like something out of some 90s Tom Hanks comedy.

But there was one thing that actually annoyed me - on my way back from the store on my grocery trip, my phone suddenly went from a healthy 7% to 0% and died. I was stuck with no music for the remainder of the walk back.

Soooo I was forced to listen to the sound of well - nothing at all basically.

Just birds chirping, wind blowing, leaves rustling, all as I walked the same path I walk all the time and see the same things I've seen hundreds of times, just waiting to get home.

Don't get me wrong I love where I live and everything, it's a really cool city with good pedestrian infrastructure, I almost never even get close to a car and it's not some smelly euro village either, but seeing the same things I've already seen and having no stimuli at all, it wasn't that big a deal but it was unpleasant.

That got me thinking - I sometimes see folks not wearing earphones outside, and I've heard on more than one occasion from some acquaintances that they don't listen to music outside, and I wonder - why's that?

Why would you choose to do that?

And, what do y'all like, do, exactly? How do you deal with the monotony of your grocery trips or things like that when you don't even have music on? Do you just never get bored of walking the same roads/neighborhoods w/e day after day?

 

If you're shocked, you're lucky, I am not.

This kind of thing is what you come to expect from an institution where only the most vicious TERFism passes for "neutral" and incoherent rambling about muh blockers passes for "science", using taxpayer money to shut off all care for under-16 trans folks in the UK.

 

After almost a year of moving cities for the first time in 3 years and some of the highest highs of life, I crashed, reached burnout, some bouts of sads and self-doubt, exacerbated by the weariness with the world and the consequences for mine and my loved ones' future prospects and generally increased cynicism towards everything.

Needless to say - hard times. But last week I've finally been sufficiently functional to partake in the one hobby that stuck with me despite ADHD, the one thing that has never not brought me joy and catharsis and it is making music. Feels great to be back.

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Can't zoom on immich (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hey so I just upgraded from 1.139 to 1.144.1 because the mobile app would lock up the phone and wasn't able to load any images anymore for some reason.

Thought I was on the latest version but ig not?

The upgrade went ok, I kept my customized compose and .env file disregarding all instructions and used docker-compose pull to update (why do I have to do that, by the way? Why isn't docker stop and docker rm and docker system prune followed by docker compose up -d enough?) and I'm having an odd issue on the Immich mobile app from F-Droid - version 1.143 running on Pixel 3XL, Android 12.

If I enable 'Prefer remote images' I cannot zoom into the image at all. Not with 'load original images' enabled and not with 'load preview images' enabled and not with either or both disabled.

Even with 'prefer remote images' disabled, I still cannot zoom properly. I can double tap to zoom into the image at a fixed zoom level and double tap to zoom out, and I can pinch to zoom to a variable level, but the normal double tap and drag down/up gesture that's used in e.g. Google maps or Google photos or fossify gallery apps doesn't work. Anyone else have this issue?

Figured I'd ask here just in case someone has had a similar issue and it turned out to be user error before opening an issue on their GitHub.

 

I've been looking for a job and jesus it's really gotten to me. Half the listed jobs are either the big tech companies like meta/aws etc. or defense contractors like lhm, northop-grummann or even dodgier glowie orgs. I'm pretty sure when such a large chunk of the economy is fucking defense contractors that it shows in the job market for something utterly unrelated (IT), that's fascism. Then I see they're selling off the UK military to palantir. Great.

It wasn't like this before. There were your goofy startups and your B2B SaaS companies, the latter I work for and it's been going under for years because it simply was never a good idea.

But that's just the straw that broke the camel's back because it was so real in a way reading news stories on the internet just isn't, it wasn't just a fact, it was an element of my life now, no different from the weather outside.

The absolute onslaught of anti-intellectualism, it's like a virus tearing through the population, a psychological blight, much worse than any coronavirus could be. The hypernormalization of it all and the sheer whiplash of the overton window has even got me shifting rightwards, through sheer osmosis and pressure.

Every time I hear my coworkers mention "grok" I get like a reaction, like "oh, that's the internet thing" and the compartmentalization of brain rot falters, I'm forced to acknowledge it is in fact - real, that what is going on is in fact real, and not just something I can laugh at. Being queer and an immigrant it's frankly shocking I've even been able to maintain this defense mechanism this long. My very future is on the chopping block, always has been, but maybe the city walls just can't stand the seige anymore.

But while I can take care of myself, I worry about the world, about others, distant and close alike. I don't need everyone to believe what I believe or align with what I think, but I feel insane at times because it seems like even the simplest rational thoughts are few and far between, everyone seems unhinged or some sort of insane grifter. It makes me want to grab the world and shake it like "why can't you just be normal".

And then there's people who plunge headfirst into the hypernormalization, realigning with the status quo, maintaining a pretense of continuity, when it is clear there's absolutely no real belief beneath. The pretense just intensifies to compensate.

Nonetheless I don't think there's much I can do, I don't know where to even start, I'd happily fight against the world that's coming but I can't do it alone, and it sure feels like I'm pretty much alone.

The burden of our time sucks, is all. Anybody got some good strategies to disconnect for a bit, so I can recuperate my psych defenses? Smell the roses and all?

EDIT: thanks everyone who responded. Think I'll check out of Lemmy for a bit, I'll make sure to read your insights and experiences when I get back. Thanks, and be well.

 

Just in case someone has been in a coma since like 2016 and has somehow not heard of the original, it's "A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut" by Have A Nice Life.

This song seems to be a Banjo(?) cover of it.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
 

As a disclaimer, I'm not actually anti-AI, but tons of slop is made with it. It's the same as those TTS Reddit reading videos from back in the day or any other shitty trend from the last 10 years.

I'm old enough to know to dismiss internet noise as vastly out of touch with the actual silent majority of internet users, so this moral panic over slop to me was just zoomers who grew up on reaction videos thinking that wasn't slop to the folks who came before, but I was on a train, looking around, I saw like 4/5 people I could see were on their phones, watching clearly AI-generated content, on TikTok or something similar based on the UI elements, one of them even had it on speaker for some reason.

All of them seemed around my age in the mid-20s.

Thing is, I don't really understand it, what's the appeal? I'm not asking about being on your phone, but specifically short-form videos about nothing specific.

When I looked it up, lots of talk about addiction and dopamine loops, but I can't relate to that, I assume this maybe has something to do with me having ADHD and the theory that my dopamine system doesn't really work "normally".

I tried watching TikTok before, but it definitely wasn't stimulating for me, I got bored pretty quick. If I was on a train and really bored looking out the window listening to music, I'd whip out a Wikipedia page or read the comments on Lemmy or look up a random question on my mind.

Why? Well in my experience - text is a lot easier to consume you can consume more information faster, hence to me - it's more stimulating. Works both ways too - It's just easier to express yourself quickly and clearly in text than by speaking. Even typing on my phone feels a helluva lot less taxing and more stimulating than speaking/listening.

It's not like I don't watch videos, I do have videos on in the background sometimes when I'm tidying up or whatever, where I prefer long-form stuff so it just fades into the background and stays consistent and non-distracting. If I watch a movie it's often something I kinda need to mentally work myself up for. I definitely wouldn't be able to pay attention to a video playing on my phone.

So my question is - what's so stimulating about this type of stuff in particular?

I want to hear about your experience so I can understand it better.

I'd like to understand it, because otherwise it feels like most people are weird aliens, driven by forces beyond my comprehension, and it's not nice :(

 

Whats a good resource? Any guides or such you found particularly helpful? I'm only familiar with some basic x86 assembly, no SSE, AVX, etc. would it be "too much" to try and learn any Risc-V assembly?

Also, are there Risc-V devboards, and if so which ones are good, and what do you use yours for? Are they at an 8-bit microcontroller level, or ARM-running-Linux type beat? Asking the latter because it's always fun to have a real target when learning a new architecture.

 

Hope discussion is allowed, this place seems like mostly link spam.

What's something that gets you every time? Like a genre trope? A well-timed amen break? Hi-gain on drums in post-punk/new wave? Wow and flutter in a lofi sample in a Current Joys or Teen Suicide type lofi song?

For me it would be acoustic guitar accompanied by a piano melody below, like: https://youtu.be/9FCF2Y4lIWk And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuIMcmNZnU

Never can quite tell if it's actually playing the same/accompanying chords in the bass clef or if it's just EQ frequency cuts to give the guitar space to breathe, and never could figure out how to make it myself, trying to put guitar and piano together just ends up with mush whenever I try it, but nonetheless as a listener it always really underscores any drama so well, I love it, no matter how tired or how often I hear it, it never doesn't work.

Close second would be really stripped down instrumental electronic or synthwave songs that are just arpeggios in a few chords with no percussion, really gives me that feeling of refreshment and a new dawn at the end of some story, or perhaps a deserved break.

For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYLP1pB7xBs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9obW0GNyYbU

 

I noticed a lot of people seem to browse by All yet complain there's not much content, whereas I'm browsing by Subscribed and I still feel like there's an unreal amount of content, far more than I could consume even if I was browsing Lemmy Non-Stop all day.

I wonder if maybe sharing our subscribed communities with each other would help?

 

Well the "threatens" part has at least

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