bstix

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[–] bstix 1 points 2 hours ago

I've seen the evolution of the one to the right. It now has a USB connection on the tail.

[–] bstix 10 points 15 hours ago

Er det fedterøve eller fattigrøve som stjæler fra vejboderne?

TV2 burde lave en Sorte Svane udsendelse hvor de interviewer de anonyme tyve og skaber en debat om emnet, så vi kan blive underholdt, forargede og enige om at sådan gør man i hvertfald ikke.

[–] bstix 1 points 16 hours ago

Jeg har svært ved at se hvordan dette er forbeholdt elbiler. Der findes heller ikke "hyldevarer" til nye benzinbiler.

[–] bstix 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they'd often end up in the wrong place.

It obviously depends on where and how it's done, but the thing I've heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It's better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.

Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.

[–] bstix 11 points 2 days ago

There's very little point in robbing a bank unless you desperately need office chairs and stationery.

[–] bstix 3 points 2 days ago

I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it's intended, I think it's okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It's been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.

[–] bstix 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's worth a read.

I think it's often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I'd say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

It's definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it's great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.

[–] bstix 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] bstix 15 points 3 days ago

Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I'm honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:

Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.

There's no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn't get it before, you'll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You'll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.

You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.

Sure, it's a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it's really easy to get started: Join a union.

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[–] bstix 3 points 4 days ago

Jeg synes det er lidt fjollet at sætte det som en procentdel af BNP, men det er da dejligt nemt at forholde sig til i stedet for at diskutere budgettet hele tiden.

Jeg håber vi kan finde nogle fornuftige ting at bruge de penge på, så det ikke bare bliver til et tilskud til USAs våbenindustri.

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by bstix to c/musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
 

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.

[–] bstix 2 points 4 days ago

Two things: VBA and the autosum formula keyboard shortcut.

 

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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by bstix to c/fedditdk
 

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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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bstix to c/musik
 

Det her er ikke bare et udemærket nummer, men simpelthen en sublim optræden. Jeg forstår ikke hvorfor de aldrig udgav den version. Den er langt bedre end album-versionen.

Nummeret er også en god opvarmning for stemmebåndet hvis man har lyst til selv at spille. Videoen her viser også hvorfor man ikke kan stole på online tabs. Han spiller jo bare i G med en capo. På den måde er akkorderne enkle "pædagog akkorder" og lyder bedre på den måde.

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