[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've noticed pretty much zero disruption on Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock despite Google's best efforts. Every time I thought I'd eventually be paying Google the Danegeld to avoid the firehose of spam I've been pleasantly surprised.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I lived in rural Wales for a while so I know this feeling. Growing up in England I thought I knew about rain before but on the Cambrian Coast it rains sideways.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Depends on the monitor, my one has a 3.5mm jack to get analogue audio out of the HDMI input which I use to get audio from my Xbox to the rest of my setup.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Good for them, doesn’t change the fact I find driving at 20 mph very frustrating compared to 30 mph for that reason.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

I think this policy will fail to be honest; while I’m not in Wales any more Oxford where I live now is a supposed ‘cycling city’ with most roads at 20 mph and honestly I hate being on the road there either in a car or on a bike; I get the bus in even though it’s often flaky. Driving you’re sat between second and third gear the whole time so you’re either revving too hard and wasting petrol or the car naturally speeds up so you’re spending a lot of attention on not getting fined rather than keeping it on the road, and when you’re cycling the cars that do keep to 20 mph linger beside you for what feels subjectively a lot longer when they overtake which isn’t fun either and the tiny bike lines make you feel vulnerable to traffic. I had a lot of near misses when I did it regularly and Oxford is a very small city, the idea of cycling somewhere like Cardiff would be terrifying to me.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks! I know what you mean, you’re right the flow will improve with practice especially when I’m properly used to playing with a click track which I’d not done until recently.

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Thought I'd share a current work in progress for a project I'm doing with a friend called Unplug the Ocean. It's rough as a badger's arse right now but that's why it's a work in progress, lyrics have been written but not recorded yet and a bass part is also in the works.

I'm really new to recording music on anything more than a phone so any pointers on mixing it properly would be much appreciated!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vintage audio is the best, I’m planning on building a Mullard 5-10 hifi valve amp from the 1950s in the relatively near future as my second valve project (a micro-power valve AM radio transmitter is my current work in progress). The parts are spendy especially the transformers but valve/tube stuff is just so cool and the fact you can just build a 70 year old design using datasheets of the same vintage and have it work just as well now is so refreshing to my programmer brain that’s used to stuff going out of date when you blink. Also I’m a magpie for glass and glowing things.

The downside is of course that the voltages involved tend to be rather unpleasant, the 5-10 design calls for 250 volts off the top of my head and some amps use 500+. Also they’re unspeakably inefficient by modern standards, it’s essentially a statement of ‘I’m putting rule of cool over sensible cost-sensitive engineering and you’re going to love it’ which I’m very here for.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Congratulations! Must be a weight off your mind, medical bureaucracy is an unpleasant prospect at the best of times. Wishing you a successful surgery and a smooth recovery!

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There really needs to be granular NSFW settings on Lemmy, or more correctly I need to improve my Rust so I can go and implement it myself instead of bitching about it!

I’m not anti-porn but I don’t want it mixed in my normal content. Other non-sexual NSFW stuff is fine 24/7, artistic nudity is fine 24/7, but I don’t want to see outright porn unless that’s what I’m specifically looking for!

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