Brutkey

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Trash can affirmations

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What I'm listening to today: "Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore", MIDERA

An enormous emotion. Thinky techno production with a human pop core and a touch of chiptune feel on the drums.

I think we're at the point where this particular type of 00s electronic sound is as old now, as the 70s-80s sounds Boards of Canada was evoking in the 90s were then. Meaning the progressive parts of Boards of Canada now themselves qualify for nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3idTvkp-A

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What I'm listening to today: "OB6 Dub Techno", dc11

The musician says this emerged from setting up a new synthesizer, so what I imagine happened: They were trying to make that "chonkchonkchonk" noise from reggae, stumbled into an amazing-sounding semi-repeating pattern, went "I have to stop everything and find a way to make this a song" and built a life support system around it. Result:

Lovely little ambient meditation over a 128bpm heartbeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDXeiQ6KdWM

If ur bored stop at ~5:00

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@bob_zim@infosec.exchange i'm honestly more worried about buying a too big monitor than a too small one

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I have 2 computers:

- Desktop with NVidia 3070Ti, Windows
- Laptop with AMD 600M integrated, Linux

I'd like to get a new monitor that supports both VRR (Gsync/Freesync) and HDR on both these machines (or if I can't support both with 1 monitor, the Desktop).

Price matters to me but "quality" kinda doesn't (my eyesight sucks & I prefer 1080p over hidpi, hidpi is glitchy). I just want HDR/VRR and for it to not be terrible.

What would you recommend, or where would you recommend I start looking?

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Hey uh maybe silly question, wanting to assert reality. If an "E-COMMERCE" site says that a monitor is "25 inches", that means 25 inches upper left corner to bottom right corner, not 25 inches wide, right?

mcc
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I have 2 computers:

- Desktop with NVidia 3070Ti, Windows
- Laptop with AMD 600M integrated, Linux

I'd like to get a new monitor that supports both VRR (Gsync/Freesync) and HDR on both these machines (or if I can't support both with 1 monitor, the Desktop).

Price matters to me but "quality" kinda doesn't (my eyesight sucks & I prefer 1080p over hidpi, hidpi is glitchy). I just want HDR/VRR and for it to not be terrible.

What would you recommend, or where would you recommend I start looking?

mcc
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The most frustrating thing to me about the available tooling for learning/translating Chinese is that most of it, including Google Translate, will just totally barf if you give it text which already contains tonal markers.

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[Poll]

How do you feel about your decisions (cumulative up to this moment)?

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What I'm listening to today: "shapely hedgerows of the dying world", Dragon Warrior

Shuffling, comfy instrumental folk / indie pop in the Elephant 6 style. Feelings like Polaroids of early mornings. You might know this musician as Brother Android or Harrison Lemke, depending on what genre you encountered him in.

https://dragonwarrior.bandcamp.com/track/shapely-hedgerows-of-the-dying-world

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What I'm listening to today: "Dual Monomachine IDM with new aftermarket +Drives from MachineStore", MIDERA

An enormous emotion. Thinky techno production with a human pop core and a touch of chiptune feel on the drums.

I think we're at the point where this particular type of 00s electronic sound is as old now, as the 70s-80s sounds Boards of Canada was evoking in the 90s were then. Meaning the progressive parts of Boards of Canada now themselves qualify for nostalgia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr3idTvkp-A

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I started, then quit and redid the opening cutscene with French audio and English subtitles… I'm finding the French VA a lot better.

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Starting Expedition 33… it has a colorblind mode, which is nice to see but kind of expected, but it also has a slider for "colorblind mode intensity", which I have not seen before and is a very interesting idea