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reay

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Dad. Writer. Amateur photographer. Dabbler in tabletop game design. Fan of books, tabletop/video games, comics, music and movies. Neutral Good. He/him.
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TNLNYC, (edited ) to internet
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I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.

Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration

Boost if you agree.

#spreadmastodon

reay,
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@TNLNYC Sounds like you had more success with this approach than I did.

I announced a couple of times on each platform when I’d be leaving Twitter and Facebook and that I had moved here (linked to my account and everything).

Zero family followed me here and I think there’s a total of… two?… friends who showed up here after that. From hundreds of connections on each site.

But, you can lead a horse to water, blah blah blah. 🤷‍♂️

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@TNLNYC I sincerely don’t know how anyone stands being there.

It was psychologically bad already anyway, then Musk took over and just poured gas on the dumpster fire.

I get that people may need to be on for work, or whatever, but to be on casually just to wind down and relax or bide the time, or whatever?

Woof.

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@TNLNYC I sincerely don’t know how anyone stands being there.

It was psychologically bad already anyway, then Musk took over and just poured gas on the dumpster fire.

I get that people may need to be on for work, or whatever, but to be on casually just to wind down and relax or bide the time, or whatever?

Woof.

reay,
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@TNLNYC That’s why it’s nice to see SOME of them starting to make the move here. Neil Gaiman, Elvira, Mark Ruffalo… hoping more come this way.

reay, to random
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There are times when the Toronto Transit Commission’s Trip Planner feature works well.

And then there are times when its first result is suggesting you can walk 790 metres (half a mile) in 10 minutes. 🤔

reay,
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@apLundell Realized the issue with the walking distance time estimate. I mis-typed the address. 3730, not 3070 as I had it.

I was wondering in retrospect why it was saying it was only 800-ish metres away, which is about 8 city blocks. It's 3.3 km (33-ish blocks) from my place.

Waaaay less confusing now.

There are times I feel extra not smart.

anthracite, to random

At the ice cream shop. Watching it get made behind the window.

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@anthracite Never not engaging.

We had occasion to go to a Nitro ice cream place visiting friends in Florida recently, and that’s all done in front of you, too, and it’s absolutely bananas.

Eamon1916, to random

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    @Eamon1916 I both totally understand this but also do it to myself most of the time and to others at least some of the time.

    reay, to random
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    https://xkcd.com/2766/

    longforjohn, to random

    The first fruit from my little garden was this delicious strawberry.

    reay,
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    @longforjohn That could be the definitive image of what a strawberry should look like.
    Bravo!

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    • Got a needed contact lens swap with the optometrist put into motion
    • Started reading an unexpectedly engaging book
    • Progress made on resolving some issues with voice over recording
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    I’m a middle-aged white guy who was just driving home with Public Enemy turned up in the car to keep the neighbours on their toes.

    adhdeanasl, to random
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    this morning: Tool’s Forty Six & 2 as performed by the kids of the O’Keefe Music Foundation.

    If you’ve never seen any of their videos, check out what O’Keefe does. It’s good stuff.

    https://youtu.be/mYKLvYGqaC0

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    @adhdeanasl I’m never not impressed by the kid on the drums. That’s some crazy stuff to keep up with — way beyond me — and he does it.

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    @adhdeanasl Incidentally, if you want to see drumming that will melt your brain, check out the drum video of a live performance of Pneuma here:

    https://youtu.be/FssULNGSZIA

    I’m not a reaction video guy, but I really enjoy watching professional drummers seeing that video and constantly stopping it to say, “Wait, hold on again, WHAT?”

    Danny Carey is a beast.

    reay,
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    @adhdeanasl Same. I can manage now, but Carey is god level.

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    Does anyone who records vocal audio have any thoughts on why my waveform amplitude seems so small on the recording software?

    I’m having to turn the interface gain to almost max just to capture even that.

    The presets I’m using in Audacity are in line with tutorials I’ve seen, so it’s not that.

    And I know it’s not which USB port the interface is connected to on my laptop. But aside from that, maybe the mic itself (a Shure SM-58)? Maybe the cabling or a connection somewhere?


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    @thebishopgame Ok, so update: Realized I hadn’t installed the driver for the UR12. Straight-forward, seemed to take it ok, all good.

    And now it’s recording as more sensitive than it had been, though still oddly low.

    With the gain at zero, there’s literally no levels registering on the input. You can hear it on the playback, but very faintly.

    Gain cranked half way, I was peaking at around -40dB.

    Gain at max, peaking at -12. That was too much, even with headphones pretty low.

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    @thebishopgame So yeah, definitely more sensitive with the driver installed, but I’m still having to put the gain up around half way to get it into a decent playback volume.

    And for what it’s worth, even with gain maxed out and the volume too high, the wave pattern amplitude on the visual is still really small compared to what I’ve seen in every tutorial video, with them just talking casually. 🤔

    reay, to random
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    I’ve always been told I walk into the room and everyone immediately picks up on my Big D(onut) energy.

    reay, to random
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    All right, enough dicking around and not doing any work… he thinks, before unironically deciding he needs a snack and tea before getting to work.

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    Wait for it… waaaaaaait for it…

    https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg

    reay, to random
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    The morning sun rises, bringing with it the heart-lifting chirping of birds waking with the day.

    https://youtu.be/A43JOxLa5MM

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    @samlitzinger I just realized that Twitter has become the new Trump presidency era: Every day some stupid shit happens and I’m long-since tired of hearing it. (He says as he boosts the post because Hey, everyone, here’s more stupid shit that happened!)

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    📌 Ny Introduktion

    Hej jeg går under navnet Danish her på Mastodon, jeg er 18 år snart 19 og jeg er interesseret i privatliv, sikkerhed og teknologi.

    Lad os skabe et hyggeligt fællesskab her på Mastodon. ❤️

    This is a danish 🇩🇰 account, so that's what I'll mainly be tooting in.

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    @danish Once upon a time I may have been able to translate at least segments of that during a dedicated streak of trying to learn Danish.

    These days, not so much.

    But in any case, welcome!

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    @samlitzinger So it’s looking like Trump v. Biden again?

    Who had The Next President Will Be Another a) 80-Year Old b) White c) Man on their Problems With The USA bingo card?

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    from yesterday:

    • finally got my voice over rig set up to try out some recording
    • an important thing I was looking for was found
    • tried two new recipes, orange chicken and a chocolate chip cookie that may be our new go-to, that my wife and daughter both really liked
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