it's good to be back!
thanks to everyone today who helped to unblock me, yall know who you are ❤️
it's already been a month since I returned from #berlin with this project in tow. you know what they say, "go to berlin and build synths" is the new "escape into the forest"... it's difficult to focus without 🥬 tho :(
i'm gonna try to not let whole weeks pass without a commit on this anyway - after all, i burnt down most of my life so i can work on my projects in peace :-) ✌️
But now that both of my stereo amps got fried (on the same day!), I've assembled myself an audio system out of two cans of Pringles chips — which you can turn into Bluetooth speakers by attaching… well, a speaker to them — which act as tweeters and a bass combo amp acting as a subwoofer and all of this shite in ensemble is responsible for mids… I have to admit with a bit of tuning it started sounding more or less bearable, yet… it's still quite disgusting 😖
Using a dedicated large diameter speaker just for the low end is a bit novel to me: I've never owned these "surround" thingies, always preferring a decent stereo system instead. Except for when my audio equipment broke down and a colleague lend me some of his with a dedicated subwoofer — that that was long time ago and I didn't use it for long.
BTW, this is Cruzan, like the rum. He’s my youngest son’s cat. I just spent the morning re-hanging the curtains in my family room due to an unfortunate Cruzan mishap.
He remains a very good boy though.
Linux Market Share Hits Record High https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/08/21/1733236/linux-market-share-hits-record-high?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
@newt Have you seen this?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/09/perl_foundation_cat_hiatus/
Looks like playing the game of CoC🐔 didn't work so well with the 60-year olds for some reason still working on…
🤮 …I'm sorry… Perl!
GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-String-Freeze
Ya-ay! 🤩 Soon I'd be able to enjoy it natively — without all the xwayland bullshit 😏
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