You are my hero, this is EXACTLY what I was hoping for. Thank you so, so much!

You truly only need one synth as long as it is a flexible, general purpose modern synth

It’s an ungodly amount of trouble to make an additive synth work like an FM synth and neither of those can accomplish what a wavetable synth does without even more work so I really have to disagree. Vital is great, but it would take way too long to make it do what Arturias Vocoder V does for example, or even at that, as easy to use for that specific purpose.

Technically you are correct, but I would rather spend my time making music instead of spending hundreds or thousands of hours setting up automations and almost unnoticeable tweaks to make each effect and each instrument work in a way I want them to (like if I want a specific sound of known instruments).

Like, I could make a full song with several “instruments” using one sample of a spoon falling off of a table too, and that’s neat, but it’s also not what I want to be doing. If I wanted this involved of a workflow, I would probably be making my music in a tracker or on a physical, fully modular synthesizer.

Inspirations come a lot easier when you have many synths with many presets in my experience, and tweaking a lot of their parameters for the sounds they make are usually simple if you are using the actual thing you want instead of something else.

Furthermore, most of Arturias V collection are emulations of the real physical hardware, and this is why I like them. I could use vital to try to emulate a Juno-106 with degraded voice chips, but the Arturia Juno emulation lets you do this with 2 clicks.

Anyway, I know what you are trying to say, but it is not what I am looking for most of the time. For stuff like that I play around with my Roland P-6 and Korg Monotrons.

Thanks.

So the V collection is similar to analog lab in that it can be downloaded from the same software center and may use their licensing from that, but the gripe is whether or not I need Arturia’s software center installed somehow in the first place. Is your version of analog lab licensed? If so, do you recall how you got it installed/working/Licensed under linux (using their software center or some other way?). I am not sure if you can just grab a VST/LV2 from them - I was under the impression you needed to install your licensed products via that software center.

Thanks

For me I feel like the real move with one of these is to have it rapidly increase the volume instead of turning off the TV because it will probably make the person who is playing it loud feel like people think it is them who is turning it up that much intentionally.

In most cases I think this would mortify them, leading them to turn it back down further than it was originally, or even turn it off themselves since they don’t want to be seen as an asshole and don’t want the attention on them.

Subconsciously I would also think this would prevent them from turning it up again in the future.

Depends on the person though.

I’ve stopped paying attention to what any regular news source says about anything themselves since it is all basically profit driven and therefore unreliable. Rather I just pay attention to sources where I can see what is said or done from the horses mouth directly, and then pay attention to people’s reactions to such things.

These are usually few and far between, but I’m talking about what was written or said by specific persons with the clear source of it coming from their personally verified outlets.

I also wait on this information before thinking too much about it as well because god knows if someone catches something out for being AI generated or a deepfake or what have you in this day and age. After a few days it gains some actual credibility as coming from that person and being the genuine article.

It is also important to still not trust what any one person says about something else as well, or even multiple persons. I can never really trust what is said by anyone as facts anymore - rather this only gives insight into that specific persons opinions on the other thing.

In the face of mountains of clear evidence and individually verified sources from many multiple persons - then and only then can I begin to trust something as fact.

One time on a summer day as a teenager I went to the grocery store with my Mom.

We parallel parked the car a ways away from other cars. We secured the car as normal and went on a short shopping trip.

When we came back out after maybe 15 minutes, all of the cars windows were rolled down completely.

We both know for a fact all the windows were rolled up when we left, and even if we had them down, there would have been no reason to have the back windows down.

Nothing was stolen, no one was around, everything appeared untouched.

This was a Nissan Murano if I recall correctly - it did have power windows, but at the time there was no fancy stuff to remote control car features outside of having a remote starter installed, which we did not have.

There was only one set of keys.

We still have absolutely no explanation for this to this day.

I see, that is troublesome. To my knowledge there isn’t much you can do except wait until they reply to you - unless someone else happens to have a different way of contacting them.

Can you not create that new account, and then just mod that account for the community using your existing mod account?

Yes as I’m afraid that was one of the expected parts.

According to NASA, the length of the celestial object is 366 meters. The distance from 387746 (2003 MH4) to the planet Earth will be 6,676,580 km.

If an asteroid approaches the Earth at a distance closer than 7.5 million kilometers and its size exceeds 150 meters, NASA considers it a “potentially hazardous object.”

So there is basically no chance of impact as I understand it unless some suuuuuuuuper unexpected shit happens I guess.

Well that’s fucking stupid. Good luck to it with understanding how to annunciate anything by Cormac McCarthy.

(I’m a junior dev at my job, and don’t have a lot of experience).

You’re robbing yourself of gaining legitimate experience.

I always use AI to explain things to me, not code for me.

Ok.

I made that my mission, so I don’t let it think for me because I want to learn.

Alright.

I asked it to build an app for me that works on KDE Plasma, my favorite DE.

Seems like the exact opposite of just having it explain concepts to you, and not letting it think for you, and not letting it write code for you.

I’ve never programmed in Python, and it chose Python. lol. Ok, let’s go with it.

Ok, so you aren’t actually learning any python, and it is just generating python code for you, which you made no attempt to change such that it would just be explaining concepts to you preferably in a language you do know. Sounds a lot like you aren’t doing a lot of the thinking in this process, or writing the code.

Creates that little script I mentioned earlier

Creates the .desktop file for that app and makes it point to the correct things (script, icon, startupWMClass(this is so the app will still launch after pinning it to the panel)…etc)

Copies the appimage into a “appimages” folder in the home directory

Adds an icon of your choosing to the app

It makes everything executable

Instead of asking AI to make this in a language you don’t know, you’d probably be a lot better off learning some BASH and discovering that this is likely doable in a one-liner or function which you can associate to an alias.

I had it package the app into an appimage

So it is thinking for you, writing the code for you, and packaging it for you.

The honest part. I feel a tiny bit of shame deep inside

You should.

Who cares how I created it?

Programmers, artists, your boss, your future self when something breaks in prod and you realize that you have robbed yourself of so much experience by outsourcing any opportunity to obtain skill, knowledge, and wisdom that you have no idea what the fuck to do or why the problem is happening, and then someone sues you over it because it turns out in the mess of AI code which you haven’t even looked at 60% of up until this point there are out of scope variables from a thread the AI found on 1337codeForum.fuck circa 2008 which lead to a disaster where some guy who actually knows how code works half way around the globe stack buffer overflowed the fuck out of you.

If you want honest opinions from people, then this is mine. That little shame you feel is probably larger than you think and it’s because you aren’t doing yourself any favors.

I would probably look at a few interesting years I am aware of, but after a while I figure it would devolve into “I dunno man, what the fuck was going on in 1111?”

I started watching live stream on twitch of a specific category that interested me. The people who stream this category collaborate with one another and each have their own community of people who follow.

I watched some really small streams and chatted with people. I do mean small as well, probably originally most of these streams had something like 6 viewers. Over a long period of time you come to know people in a stream group - and then because of the collaboration you come to know more people. There is usually a discord server or some such where these people talk when there is no stream as well.

Now, 5 or more years later, I’m probably in something like 18 discord groups where I talk to a lot of people regularly, or DM with quite a lot. By proximity and a loose shared interest, we all now know quite intimate details of each others lives and talk about all kinds of anything and everything.

Friendship is not really a fast process, but you just have to find places to plant seeds and see what grows.

There was a guy on youtube once who uploaded a video talking about this who has the channel name “crazydumbsick”.

Unfortunately I can’t seem to find the video as it looks like he regularly deletes content, and it currently only goes back about a month on his channel at present.

Take everything below with a block of salt because this is from memory, and it was a few years back where I watched his video once, so I could be misremembering one or more things here.

If I recall correctly he has Schizophrenia, Crohns, and an IQ of ~45, hence his channel name. He talked a lot about how hard it was to live, particularly pertaining to his IQ. He said that he has a hard time with remembering things and therefore most of his meals are made from pre-made microwaveable packages as he is capable of operating the microwave without too much difficulty, and he found it generally easy to follow the instructional lists on the packaging.

He made note that operating any kind of machine much beyond a microwave or TV remote was largely beyond him, except his computer and camera which he had recently figured out well enough to be able to record and upload content - but outside of those actions, he really had no idea how to use them.

I believe he also said that due to one or more of his conditions, he could not drive, which largely compounded the difficulties of his life.

He talked about how finding work for someone in his situation is basically impossible and just as impossible to hold onto for very long. I believe he talked about a couple jobs he had been fired from and why, and while I don’t recall the specifics, I believe he had talked about how he was not even entirely certain why he had been fired. I think he said that he had done some things incorrectly, and at the time, had some vague concept of them being incorrect, but despite this, he was unsure why he had gone ahead and done them anyway.

Overall, he seemed very sad in the video; he was terribly aware of how hard it is to live life being himself, and knew that there were basically no solutions to it.

Having said all of that, he continued to upload videos and there were some good events and some bad events. I believe at one or more times he discussed having tried to take his own life. Other times he seemed fairly upbeat and was trying to better himself - trying to read through a textbook on auto work for example.

Anyway, I think the original video I spoke about is one of the better videos I’ve seen uploaded to the internet. It was somewhat sad, but it was highly enlightening and certainly one of the most honest videos I’ve ever seen someone upload.

It is a quandary.

I would not support the project monetarily because I would not want to fund the primary persons behind it.

But Hyprland is FOSS is it not? Someone could fork the project to resolve the issue you are describing.

If this does not resolve the issue in your opinion (as you seem to have concerns with the “roots” of the project), and if we go with that logic, we should be just as opposed to using the modern “Jerry” gas can as it was a Nazi invention originally.

Both good and evil people invent things - whether the thing that is invented is itself reflective or could be considered supportive of the inventors ideals varies. Nazi’s are terrible and I don’t want to support them, but at the same time I think that it is good and useful to be able to safely and effectively transport gas if needed, and I’m not so certain that function supports Nazi ideals. If I purchased the gas can from a Nazi, then it would, but nothing is being purchased in the case of Hyprland as far as I am aware.

I don’t know a tonne about Hyprland as a thing however, so my decision on whether or not to use it may also vary.

In short, you can have massive, entirely valid criticisms of the evil deeds of a person, but that does not necessarily fault everything they invent or touch, even if we would like it to. This is the crux of the Composition/Division logical fallacy if I am not mistaken, which is where we make an assumption that what is true about part of something must be applied to the rest of it without exception.

In this instance, the inventor may be evil but it does not automatically mean that their inventions are inherently evil.

If there are criticisms of Hyprland, the software itself - then it is a different matter.

• Captain Handcannon
• Big Cheese of the Seven Seas
• Luscious Duluth Doddery Landran III the Fourteenth

I am and do basically whatever they need. Please end my misery.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

What’s the little tiny display in the photo? I’ve been looking for something like that.

As others have said, I think it should be opt in instead of opt out, but it is probably good to have as an option.

However, if the intent is to improve mental health - I would recommend making it an option to hide all votes in their entirety. One can hide their down votes, but that may just change some peoples perspective from “high number of down votes” to “low number of up votes” which to them may be functionally the same as far as mental health is concerned. Therefore I think that it would be good to have the option for each/both.

For me this would have another benefit as well - it would allow me to think about and respond to all content in a more objective and honest manner.