Shinji_Ikari [he/him]

Smallest I went was the Planck in a diy form. I liked it enough I bought a real preonic for the slimmer case.

Never got into split keyboards though. I move my keyboard around a lot and need to use space on my desk so it’s just easier. I find myself really missing home row layers whenever I go back to a normal keyboard.

Typically volume of a track is chosen by the producer/person mixing. You could theoretically get an average volume and scale the tracks gain. This could have the effect of compressing or chopping parts of the song that are purposefully loud while the rest of the song is purposefully quiet.

I think it isn’t done in order to maintain the intention of how the track was mixed. Typically people won’t have playlists of quiet classical mixed with maxed out edm so a general rule is hard to predict and the authors of the music player just leave it as is.

Look into the cd loudness wars of the 90s where record companies were mixing their tracks louder and louder to compete, which produced notoriously terrible album mixes.

That’s why it’s important to abandon your faves at their peak and find new scrappy up-and-comers.

I’m worried i have this but I seriously don’t want a cpap. I bet one of the oral appliances would help though, i need to figure out how to get one.

there’s this awful venn diagram of circles with no overlap, where you cant get a smallish phone that gets updates. Even asking for it to be well made is a pipe dream.

Add onto the desire for an unlockable bootloader and your only options are the phones designed to be thrown into a river after the job is complete.

I wish those unihertz devices were serious whatsoever. They ship on old android versions and get maybe one update in their life cycle.

Android is such a clusterfuck of an OS too. kernel/driver space is an absolute mess so every OEM has to basically ship their own kernel. Qualcomm is the devil and hides everything behind NDA’s so you can’t really write an open OS from the ground up on any hardware that can do any real processing.

I just think its good.

The way I see it, you can have an OS that breaks less often and is hard to fix, or an OS that breaks a little more often that is easy to fix. I choose the latter. 99/100 times, when something breaks with an update, it’s on the front page of archlinux.org with a fix.

The problems I’ve faced with other distros or windows is the solution is often “reinstall, lol”, which is like a 3 hour session of nails on a chalkboard for me.

So uhhhh…what am I supposed to do in the meantime while waiting for a job?

Real talk, this is a bit of a crapshoot but it can work, it’s worked a couple times for me.

Go hard on personal projects.

Make what you want to make, rewrite it when you’re done and realize how stupidly you wrote it the first time. expand it, connect it to other projects, put it all on github, put a decent readme of the whys and hows of this project, it doesn’t matter if you’re the only one who uses it, that’s called internal tooling.

When you run into an issue with a library you’re using, learn to contribute to open source, file a pull request, get a feel for it.

Put your github at the top of your resume. Prune your top repos so people see what you want them to see first.

This wont be a silver bullet but if you apply to smaller shops that like/support open source, it makes the nerds interviewing you like you more. I’ve skipped programming challenges completely because I was able to talk in depth to the designs of my personal projects, so they knew I actually wrote it because I understood it. So if they wanted to see how I wrote code, they could trust I wrote what they’re seeing.

The benefit to this approach is you also get a lot of experience. You’re forced to learn to architect your stuff from first principles, you’re forced to learn from all your mistakes.

This market sucks, these projects will feel like a full time job, but it can pay off, and its a better bet than waiting. Nerds like working with other nerds. People on projects like working with others who can break down problems and figure things out, even if they don’t know the solution immediately.

There is hope.

10 years ago when I started college, I watched 100s of freshman lug their g*mer laptops into the lab for tutoring the night the intro CS class homework was due. They were too busy the rest of the week gaming to do the homework, so they began 4 hours before it was due and begged for help.

Most of them didn’t make it to their sophomore year. I don’t feel that bad, the work load was not that heavy, the tutors were there every day of the week. I had a really hard time grasping programming at first, so I was there daily. The homeworks were given a week ahead of time, the lecture notes spelled out 80% of the solution, and the tutors loved to help. The students just didn’t want the help.

This conjures a similar feeling. idk maybe I’m being a dick.

I gave the anime a shot last night and I was just really confused why they went with the anime style in general. Like it was already drawn in a way that could have been animated in its own style? The actual animation felt a little clunky and I think I would have rathered if they used new voice actors tbh, the voice acting felt a bit clumsy.

It feels like a “licensed product” rather than a core piece of media, ie Jak and Daxter: the lost frontier.

I’ll admit I saw the movie at a very formative time and it has its problematic bits. Is it true they just talk about their feelings rather than fighting? Like sure that’s better as a message, but Scott being “the best fighter in Toronto” from the original comics always felt like a really bizarre and funny character detail, the whole world was built around scott being a scrawny asshole but also a top tier fighter for some reason, and that absurdity felt important in the context of the world.

Overall I wish they would stop remaking media. The weird netflix self insert by making Ramona deliver DVDs for netflix just made me mad though. I felt like I was watching an ad. The whole vibe feels off, idk if I’m old or i’m correct.