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I'be been entertaining myself with the idea of a limited edition + 96 channel foh desk with 6 aux busses and 4 stereo send return pairs. When their chief engineer appears in the promo video recorded for a npr tiny desk with 10 piece band plus full orchestre to give some background on the technical/design challenges his team was faced with he sounds exactly like Rob Brydon's man trapped in a box. In the background we see a local crew manically digging through flightcases to find the one that has all slimline minijack to xlr/audio over utp/ multisnek adapters.

Instagrambient content generators perhaps?

No. You do get a free minijack headphone adapter thingy though. Also, the cables come in one flavour: 1.2 meters, male minijack at the other end as well. I guess at the scale this mixer is at that is plenty of length but if you're gonna have something that is not also incredibly tiny on your table it's not hard too imagine a scenario where you're gonna need a longer cable to have your machines arranged the way you want it. Plus possibly some adapters to go to 6.3 jack. So gotta toss some mono F to M minijack cables plus mono 3.5 to 6.3 adapterplugs/cables into the mix there. I get the esthetic appeal of a lot of the stuff TE makes but every time I see their offerings I can't help but think I'm looking at some very niche market electronic waste and this hedonistic approach is as much as a throwback as their designs are. But I guess the entire point of TE is that they make stuff that is very well designed, clever and super neat but quite limited, a bit obnoxious and naive at the same time. Feel like I suddenly understand how they've come to name their company. I'm also really curious as to how many of these units will be produced on the first run, how big of a market is there for something that's kind of a impractical hyper-practical tool? Otoh I see they also offer a wide range of clear/translucent splashwater proof pouches and bags that seem to me mostly useful to people driving convertibles in gated communities.

My dream is to one day open a small coffee place where people can enjoy artisanal baklava and nice coffee. Free balaclava with every 5th baklava. Live balalaika and clave performances every odd Tuesday.

I'm still waiting on the micrometer I ordered from aliexpress when I heard about dick shrinkage. Fucking supplychain disruption.

That is really cool. G'damn.

Might be worthwhile to look into giving your mbp a good cleaning on the inside and possibly also refreshing the thermalpaste on the cpu. I did this last year for my 2011 (lol) mbp that was running its fans at what seemed pretty much full capacity all the time and it's gone back to only fanning up occasionally, still going strong (fingers crossed). I cleaned it out previously a couple of times but I think redoing the thermal paste is what did it. Might seem slightly daunting at first but if you go step by step and take your time it's very easy to do. I spent some time reading thermal paste discussions and settled on the gc-extreme paste by gelid. I'm sure other pastes are fine as well (as long as they're not electrically conductive). Besides the paste you'd need some form of canned air to blow out dust (keep a vacuumcleaner next to you to blow the dust into), brush is handy too, some cotton swabs, paper towels and isopropyl alcohol for cleaning off the old thermal paste and some gloves (keep your hands clean and prevents getting fingerprints on the heatsink after you've cleaned it). You'll also need some torx screwdrivers, the sizes you need for your particular model can be found in the various ifixit guides. Oh, and I'm able to run Live 11 on my 2014 (I think) MBP without constant fans. Do think having it in clamshell mode reduces its ability to dissipate heat somewhat as the wrist resting areas besides the trackpad usually get fairly hot. Also possibly somewhat reduced airflow into the fans but not sure about that.

Good thing! Last time you mentioned making your stuff available for streaming the only Ignatia were some surfer-reggea-songwriter guy with dismal esthetics and someone releasing recordings of burning wood.

Have been looking on and off for some affordable primer for aluminium that comes in non-spray form for weeks and tonight I find a hardware chain that has all the hammerite stuff on sale with 35% off. The entire hammerite range can be ordered online except for the primer which is only available for click and collect. Which means I have to bike over 40 minutes back and forth for this fucking paint. Good thing I have a low-paying job so my time is essentially worthless but it's nonetheless annoying. Additionally I hurt my leg two weeks ago after jumping off my bike when the chain flew off while I was going downhill which meant I could no longer brake. One of the pedals slammed into the back of my right leg, it hurt immensely but I thought I was overreacting. A couple of days later I realize it looks like I'm wearing a blue boot because off the blood that has spread under my skin and it's all sagging towards my foot sole and spread all around my calf and such. As the swelling subsided over the last couple of days and the bruising spread some more but became less intense I'm left with a more painful leg than I had initially and I have two purple and blue toes. I'm considering a visit to the emergency room but that's gonna take ages, wonder if they'd be alright with me popping out to go and get some paint while I wait.

At least we still have this amazing cover version.

Struggling to keep myself from panic-buying small bulk amounts of electrolytic capacitors on mouser. I mean... there's no way these prices are gonna go down again anytime soon, right?

I seem to have become one of those people that's plagued by ultrasound. My apartment building is situated next to a very active waterway and there's a dockyard visible from the window that's behind me as I'm typing this. At nigh I've always been able to feel, and sometimes hear the larger ship's diesels but since 6 months or so it's been getting quite intense. Right now it feels as if my whole floor is wobbling/pulsating and it's starting to worry me a bit. I suspect it might have something to do with the building finally settling (it was delivered about 6 years ago, I think and afaik it would be around this time that all the concrete has actually completely dried/cured/whatever concrete does. In addition to nightly wobbling there's also been piledriving every single day of the week, starting at 7 am, finishing at around 15:00 across the road from us. Only partially ultrasonic, unfortunately. According to my phone my monthly hours in bed average over the last 6 months is a little over 4 hours. FML. ain't even gonna fix this wall of text.

https://sidelinemag.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-resistance-a-darkwave-post-punk-compilation-from-the-ukrainian-underground

What kind of cat do you have?

2 major Dutch newspapers reporting details on a political/corruption scandal that were already reported last year, pretty much word for word. Feel like I'm losing my fucking marbles.

I hope I’m dead before this really becomes a thing.

I see BCM’s monitor placement consultancy business has taken off.

De-activated my twitter account after only a month or so. That shit is toxic.

Perhaps a silly proposal but have you considered asking someone else to confirm for you? Additionally you could maybe agree with that person that if anything goes wrong or it turns out to be more costly than expected you may officially blame them because they sealed the deal.

Holy fuck, that sounds rough. Good luck.

Thanks for the considerate reply Chen. You don't come off as harbouring ill intent or anything, I guess I was just clarifying why I felt (and still feel :)) free to post venty or naive stuff on here. Cheers.

Where does this NFT stuff come from? I'm probably thick af but when I read about them supporting open and free internet I thought they were referring to net-neutrality?

He's now one of those large soft cookies.

I don't really care about who's dragging who where. Russia invaded Ukraine, that's a given, no going back from that. Presenting situations like this as if it's a match and you're asking people who they're rooting for is totally absurd to me. I can only feel empathy towards citizens, not states. I can't fathom speaking about a war in this binary, for or against, way that you are asking me to do. Citizens die, people lose their homes and lives are destroyed. Who cares who started it? I was voicing frustration about Biden's boilerplate (as I understand a bit more clearly now) response. I kind of expected the excessive expletives and ridiculous yearning for Trump would make it obvious that my post was intended as a way to blow off some steam. Is it cool to do that here? Probably not, but I feel safe here, on WATMM. I don't go to Twitter for information. The only reason I have a Twitter account is so that I can troll the Dutch cryptofascists (the Dutch FVD party that is trying to destabilize society and politics in the Netherlands in a similar way that Trump and associates did in the US) that have been gaining traction. It's a pointless and shameful waste of time but I allow myself to indulge in it from time to time. I just happened to be on Twitter when the invasion started and my twitter/trolling session spiraled out of control. Anyone able to extract the true meaning from Putin's speeches and is able to extrapolate from this what his intentions are, I am in awe of. Truly.

That's not what I said, but thank you for misinterpreting my eloquently worded post. I know... it's the last sentence that triggered me. I'm afraid of what is happening, and frustrated from wading through a swamp of dreck and misinformation on twitter. It's like being held hostage by a maniac with a loaded gun and Biden has decided to take the role of tough guy upon himself and you're kind of stuck in between just wanting to go home.