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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

All car manufacturers world wide are subsidized.

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent-totals

Of course China can make cheaper cars, because most car manufacturers get their parts produced in China anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It really depends on the reference. 0 today is not the same as 0 was when I grew up. By the standards then, it was probably a 4, but by today's standards it would be in the negatives, -2or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

With a wide brush you can paint the picture like this: The Republicans were left wing communists (or at least they wanted a democratic republic) and the Nationalists were right wing fascists.

Nationalists won and they had a dictator (Franco) in Spain from 1939 to 1975.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

That's no moon.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (6 children)

This is dementia ramblings.

They could have asked him about cheese and I bet he would've talked about doing a tremendous job at making cheese grate again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

With enginuity like this it should be possible to make a water trap to keep the smell contained.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You mean lunch break?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

"Allowed until someone is sued for doing it and insurance can't keep paying out" more likely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

A dog without leash shows that the owner hasn't bothered taking dog training classes or in the case of my country that they haven't bothered learning the law. If they can't be bothered to do that, I worry that they are not responsible enough to take care of the dog, and they shouldn't be allowed to own a dog. Dog ownership ought to require a license or mandatory training.

The person using the perfume might also not even know about the issue, but in that case, I don't think it makes sense to blame the consumer. There are simply too many types of products that are potentially dangerous when used wrong. Perhaps the seller ought to have warned about it, but I doubt that would make much difference. You can still be upset about it being produced. Lots of things are like that.

Sometimes you can blame the consumer and sometimes you can't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you're a mathematician how can you be dissing 5 like that?

Less than? Hell no.

5 is soo much more and soo many things that 25 isn't and never will be.

Without 5 you wouldn't even have 25. Some might even say that 5 is the root of 25. Show some respect for the roots.

Not only is 5 a beautiful prime number, it's also the perfect number for a geometric shape. Everyone knows what a pentagon looks like. The Pentagon even named their institution as that. They didn't name it after 25. Who the hell has ever heard of the icosikaiopentagon? Nobody, that's who.

Look at the American flag. It has 50 stars. Guess which shape they have? That's right, each of the 50 states have stars with 5 points. Exactly 0 of them chose to have a 25 pointed star.

You know what a bad number is? Yes: 25.

25 is a shitty composite number. It's shitty because it's not even good at being a composite number; having only a measly 3 factors: One, itself and 5 (of all things, duh..)

That's because it's square and boring. Does it even look square to you? This uneven 25 is supposedly a square. I never made a square of 25 things. What's the fucking point in that? If I had to make a square for any purpose whatsoever, I'd definitely chose a better number with many more factors, so I could actually use the squaredness to divide things and mark mid points and what not. 4 is a square. 16 is a square. They're so much better at being square than 25, because you can cut them in half and make a grid with a midpoint.

So, yeah yeah, there are probably other numbers out there greater than 5, but it sure as fuck is not 25.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It's a response to Neil Young's songs which criticized the racist south.

Basically, it's what-about-ism in song form, mocking the liberals for being upset with Nixon.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

 

 

How do I best view tabs from pages like ultimate guitar and others on a phone browser, so that the chords and lyrics match up? I know on pc they usually show up fine in notepad or with ASCII fixed sys font, but I can't quite figure out how to set it up for easy browsing on an android phone. I tried copying it to other apps but none of them have a fixed width font.

How do you do it?

 

Found at Brodega skateboards (Denmark)

I'm not affiliated, just found it funny.

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