pricing is in line with the top ipad. I consider it kind of an activist move to buy one of these though, more about supporting a cause than getting a device with maximal functionality.

Spacex livestream archived here: https://www.youtube.com/live/2G-L0u_L0qU

I like this approach of having a model locally and running it locally. I’ve been using the firefox website translator and its great. Handy and it doesn’t send my data to google. That I know of, ha.

I use keepassxc to generate the code.

I’m more looking for a federated RPAN than a tiktok.

Got it working. The problem was really dumb: I use xmonad. When I run mixx, it opens a modal dialog where you have to select a file, or cancel. I didn’t notice the dialog, maybe too many windows or it ended up behind the main window. Dialog never returns, program never gets off the splash screen. 😅 Still get the warnings and errors, but apparently that’s normal.

Anyway, working now, definitely a lot of bells and whistles in this. Inspiring if I ever want to take up DJing.

I’ve had a dell precision 5520 for several years now. Its been solid from a software support standpoint. Downside is the stock batteries swell up; I’ve settled for lower-capacity aftermarket batteries instead. On my second keyboard, second charge port and second power supply. Unfortunately a screw fell out and then the hinge broke as a result, and charging has gotten wonky, maybe since the charge port’s attachment point broke too. If you put the charge cable in just the right place it’ll charge, but sometimes I can’t find that position.

Pluses:

• 32g ram
• nvidia graphic accel
• replaceable keyboard, battery, memory
• touchscreen, webcam, etc all work.
• high dpi screen
• good linux support.
• daily driver for 5+ years

Minuses:

• USB3 dock doesn’t charge enough, still needs power supply.
• front edge of the laptop is a bit sharp
• swelling stock batteries, keyboard and mouse gradually stop working.
• should have used locktite on screws, some fell out and now hinge, power wonky.

I also have a thinkpad w520. Super solid, but gets hot when the gpu is enabled. Probably needs a thermal paste refresh. Still on the original keyboard. On second power supply, first one’s cable is getting sparky. Slow compared to the dell, short battery life, very heavy, still working though!

yeah could be a packaging bug.

Autohotkeys is cool but its a windows prog, so won’t work for me on linux.

When you speed up/slow down the recording, it has to process the whole file. That takes a while. You can’t just slide a slider to different pitches to see what’s right. Then you have to save the file someplace, think of a file name, put it somewhere reasonable etc. Or remember the pitch and do everything over again next time.

thx. and looks like you can set up an af-command for bumping the playback speed up and down with a keyboard shortcut. presumably that’s possible with pitch as well.

seems like libmpv would be a great back end for a specialized music practice tool.

Wow huge wall of text. How do you select a section of a song and loop just that section?

Looks like you can adjust playback speed. But I don’t see where you can adjust pitch, nor do I see where you can select a section of a song for looping.

I use that timestretch web one already! But an actual app would be nice.

Sonic visualizer is pretty maximalist. Feels maybe not exactly designed for music practice but can do it and a lot else too.

It reset my monitors and I thought my system was rebooting! Then things came back up, with windows on different monitors than before, lol. Its stuck on a splash screen that says “MIXXX”. I’m running nixos, xmonad, pipewire. Output at the terminal:

[nix-shell:~]$ mixxx
ConfigObject: Could not read "/home/pr06lefs/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
Loading resources from  "/nix/store/q9y3q43nq50wwx7zvq9wz3bj1hlji7w6-mixxx-2.4.0/share/mixxx/"
ConfigObject: Could not read "/home/pr06lefs/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
ConfigObject: Could not read "/home/pr06lefs/.mixxx/mixxx.cfg"
No version number in configuration file. Setting to "2.4.0"
BroadcastSettings - Profiles folder doesn't exist. Creating it.
BroadcastSettings - No profiles found. Creating default profile.
warning [Main] faad2::LibLoader - Failed to load  ("libfaad.so.2", "libfaad.so") ,  "Cannot load library libfaad.so: (libfaad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)"
warning [Main] SoundSourceProviderRegistry - SoundSource provider "Nero FAAD2" does not support any file extensions
warning [Main] SoundSourceProxy - Failed to register SoundSource provider "Nero FAAD2"
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1000:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
ALSA lib pcm.c:2792:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear
ALSA lib pcm.c:2792:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe
ALSA lib pcm.c:2792:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side
ALSA lib pcm_route.c:878:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1000:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

maybe its our instance but calendar sync is horribly broken for us. I use thunderbird on pc and fossify calendar on mobile, and events tend to make it to nextcloud but not to the other devices pretty frequently.

mpd

clients

wonder why those elbows lock out instead of having 270 degrees of freedom. would be even more creepy. could have one arm in facing-forward mode and one in facing-backward mode, do the same with the feet. then googly eyes for the back of the head.

ed: a bit like fifield in prometheus

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I don’t really know what the state of the art in 3D scanners is, but my guess is you’d get a cleaner STL file (less complex, less weird artifacts of scanning) from making the design yourself in a CAD program.

I’m intrigued by a tag based rather than subcommunity based system. I have a personal wiki system I use that is tag based, and its great since most notes fit in multiple categories. Different from a social board though.

Re images. A giant image, or an animated gif in the middle of a text discussion can be disruptive. The same with things like fancy user sigs that are 10x the size of the comment they posted. Do you have thoughts on how to limit this kind of distraction?