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kai

@kai@ajin.la

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I'm interested in cities, urban planning, zoning, decluttering, television, podcasts, photography, systems administration, finance, economics, history, and music.

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veer66, to random
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Listening to NBC news is easy. Do CNN anchors speak in different dialect?

kai,
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@veer66 if you really want to go down the rabbit hole https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/neutral-american-accent

kai,
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@veer66 General American is a myth. Newscasters just speak clearly.

brandon, to random
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I feel icky... I had to use Teams today

kai,
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@brandon a true Team Player

jpostma, to music
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Set up #Navidrome and #Symfonium yesterday. Absolutely loving it so far!

I was using #Poweramp previously (also very good), but now I can stream rather than having to move all the FLAC albums I want to listen to my phone.

#Music #Selfhosted #Homelab

kai,
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@jpostma have you tried plexamp?

kai,
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@jpostma I just wondered how it might compare. There's a lot going on in this space. 😅

kai, to random
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After all these years, I just realized the input sensitivity selector switch on two of my speakers does nothing. The speakers have been working at -10dBV all this time. The switch was set to +4dBu, but since the switch doesn't work on either speaker, I didn't notice until I added a third speaker, apparently the only one with a working input sensitivity selector switch. 😅

kai, to Electronics
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Can anyone who works with #electronics tell me what this white stuff is and if it's supposed to be there? 😅

kai, to random
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My first USB-C flash drive! It's so adorable!

kai, to random
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Thuận's Chinatown is only partially translated into English by Nguyễn An Lý, using e.g. "thuốc láo" instead of the more familiar English word, "tobacco."

A more thoroughly translated edition might be more readable, but then, how would I feel special? 🤪

kai,
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"Xe ôm" means motorbike. There is an English word for motorbike. Why not just write motorbike?

I'm not sure if I will finish this book or throw it into the river.

kai,
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@jellal Chinatown is so well regarded. There's a lot in it about the immigrant experience, being an outsider, etc. It should be right up my alley. It's exotic. But I'm definitely not enjoying it.

Who knows; maybe in one year I'll think it's the best thing I've ever read.

Angle, to random
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Ugh, need a new cell phone. Any suggestions? I don't want to deal with apple, or samsung, or any other company that's going to act like them, but I also don't want to sink a ton of effort into making the thing work. My last phone was a Pinephone, and frankly it took way too much effort for too little reward, IMO.

kai,
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@Angle I'm holding out for a Pixel 9 Pro, which should be available in both XL and 'regular' sizes.

Or get a Pixel 7 pro https://electronics.woot.com/offers/new-google-pixel-7-pros-unlocked-all-capacities-and-colors

Not very anticapitalist, but they do work.

kai, to random
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Today's train watching spot

kai,
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Where trains, cars, and bicycles meet 😋

kai, to random
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I'm watching TV on the Panasonic Viera TC-L32C3 ($399 MSRP): Panasonic’s lowest-end television for the year 2011.

I found it on the floor at my dad's house. I calibrated it as best I could.

And it looks…great. Spectacular, even.

I feel like there must be something wrong with me for thinking this.

kai, to random
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I finally got the clock rate set for my sound card on the Pinebook Pro. I thought I was using PipeWire because that's what is listed under Preferences on Reaper, but apparently it's still PulseAudio.

Configuring audio on Linux remains enigmatic, but it works. 😌

kai, to random
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RDP support on Wayland is still under development.

For Gnome 46, you can connect to an existing session that has already been started locally and is persistent.

You can start a new remote session, but when you disconnect from this session, all of your processes are killed (apparently).

As far as I can tell, the dream of remotely starting a persistent local session is expected on Gnome 47.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/persistent-remote-desktop-access-api/19415/23

kai, to art
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Laura's looking regal tonight.

#Art

https://buffaloakg.org/artworks/201226-laura

kai, to random
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Wow, RDP on Wayland. I can't believe it's finally here!

kai, to random
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AI is the future!

jpostma, to audiophile
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Step 1: Put headphones on to get a jam going while doing chores around the house.

Step 2: Get absolutely mesmerized by the music.

Step 3: Refuse to do further chores as they would interfere with the music on the open headphones.

Just problems.

kai,
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@jpostma music is worth listening to all by itself 😊

kai, to random
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The 360 Degree Music Experience

Sahara: "a steel pan orchestra meets collective jazz improvisation"

#NowPlaying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTFeXu31dEA

pry, to random
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so how is Linux on arm?

kai,
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@pry if the Pinebook Pro gets a spec bump, I will buy another one

kai,
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@pry Signal leaves aarch64 builds to end users. That's probably my biggest practical day-to-day snag.

kai, to random
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it's unions all the way down

https://documentedny.com/2024/05/20/seiu-1199-union-nyc/

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