I use these at work. That is a sleeve style clamp used to seal off leaks

I honestly want one of these so bad. From the design aesthetics to the well reviewed game experiences, it’s a nice change of pace to the normal paradigm of console/pc/retro devices

I’ll tell you why I’m pretty liberal with my block button and cool with my echo chamber. There are people out there who want me dead for liking my same sex. My trans friends are being legislated against / threatened with violence not because of science or health, but because of feelings and religion. I have family that emigrated legally being exposed to horrific racism and the threat of violence.

Do you support human rights? Or do you support death to the “other” ? Makes my choices easy. Not to mention I prefer actual truth to my information sources, not tabloid fluff designed to keep me enraged.

Of course, I’m all about non invasive spy wear! If you get one, just remember to temper your expectations! It will get there….eventually <3

Hopefully you will have fun! It isn’t too much trouble to set up, and it has some pretty cool apps!

Wow this is really awesome, thank you so much for sharing<3

I don’t necessarily think it’s too late. There will be a niche that someone/some entity will settle into for us privacy minded folk. Hopefully that niche gets beefy processors and extra ram fr fr

So Pine 64 has a PineTime watch that is pretty nifty if people want sans spying techwear. Very basic and very alpha/beta mode…but it gets better every so often! More people use it or know about it, the more development it gets!

Karl Marx isn’t really random, he is the godfather of communism. Now I am not a full blown communist by any means but Karl Marx was a really smart dude who correctly saw and anticipated the negative effects of capitalism. It’s ok to disagree, I respect that completely but I’d ask we keep it civil.

I get what your saying completely. I don’t disagree per se actually (my brain tells me we just have lived in a crazy time for the past couple hundred years, guns are super prolific.). I would love if the police disarmed as well.

I appreciate the information! I’ll check my labels!

Dude I did a play through about 4 years ago. It holds up to this day! Fucking fun game, and the color indicator around the enemies was a genius move. Makes it almost like a rhythm game.

Dang, I really need to get another light gun set up lol

I really enjoyed Radiant Silvergun. Just a nice well done shoot ‘em up.

Also partial to Albert Odyssey. The translation is remarkably bad but it did have a nice story and some sweet sprite work. Standard JRPG fair.

The best for me was the Panzer Dragoon series. All 3 are just top notch bangers.

Normally I would just let it slide, but I’m bored so why not have some discourse :)

1. I do not own fire arms personally due to mental health issues. I do carry pepper spray and have a taser readily available. Worst case scenario a bow I use for hunting.

2. There are legitimate uses for fire arms full stop. Protection against bodily threats, hunting, tyrannical government, etc.

3. I support universal background checks and “common sense gun regulation”. It is a dangerous tool, but it is still just a tool. I’d love to see mandatory fire arm safety training before attempting to buy a gun.

4. Workers rights are bogged down because of hierarchical systems designed towards uplifting the few and the expense of the many.

Why should the government have exclusive use of violence? In any case, the eventual goal (for me personally and people like me) is peace and liberty. Until that happens the working class must have access to fire arms. The people who should not own guns are those with mental health issues, and access should be limited to trained/responsible individuals.

I like decent sampler a lot I just wish it was open sourced. If your cool with non FOSS software it is pretty dope. Good Kontakt competitor

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary” —-Karl Marx

Omg. This is fucking awesome. I’ll tell you what, my child is 100% cool ;)

So Microsoft is one of the most valuable companies in the entire world. They have a stranglehold on corporate America, power a huge the cloud infrastructure, hold one of the largest sources of telemetry/user data, and are the defacto standard of PC environments worldwide.

Why in the fuck do they need to pivot to ads? I’m genuinely curious. Even if they lost 50% of their entire business they would still be one of the most profitable companies in the world.

There is so much music now, once I found out an artist doesn’t align with my values it’s easy to drop them.

Can’t wait to get it onsale on Steam! I already paid full price on Switch so they ain’t getting extra lol

Funny enough ( not funny at all actually) your old grow up home adjusted for inflation accounts for just under $700k. So they added 900k on top of that. Over two times the price for the same home accounting for inflation

Yes! Yes you can! Vectoring synthesis voices is also cool!

There are furry games on steam. No! No this is terrible. I can’t believe this. Where? Where exactly are the furry games so I can avoid them. Like where specifically?

This is the way. But milk teas and boba tea is pretty good for a tea mix drink.

Several modular synth modules use joysticks for control over parameters, but one of the coolest I’ve seen is one from Delptronics that uses a wii nunchuck controller to send out control voltage. Hagiwo I believe also has a similar DIY design.

Oh boy, such a fantastic console.

Tacos, Enchiladas, Papusa’s, Gorditas, Tamales, etc. I’m very spoiled where Im at.

I feel like this is ripe for abuse. I’m sure insurance companies purchase this data to screw their customers in some wicked way

Big time memories here. Yes books on tape were a big thing for people stuck to cars. My dad had a bunch of them.

So this is an editorial with some data cited so I will attack it on those merits.

1. The job market is largely a dog and pony show. Companies have all the power in the world when it comes to good jobs. The “golden job market” is for low paying jobs that suck to do. Rates need to go up full stop.

2. They are correct in housing being a huge issue for both Z and Millennials. It missed the shot however for failing to identify corporate inclusion into the housing market driving up costs. Not to mention the parasite class known as landlords which has been a problem since the era of Lords and Serfs.

3. The inflation argument is a misdirection. Look at corporate profits. The capital class is literally bleeding the worker class dry, while also lowering the quality of service/products.

I could go on but I encourage others to actually read the article and form your own opinions. CNN isn’t as biased as Fox or MSNBC but they ultimately put a liberal (as in liberal markets) spin on the news they choose to report.

Holy smokes! I was an avid TikTok person for music before they enshittified it with ads and the shop features. Can’t wait for Loops!

Not surprising. Proton seems to be exploiting the niche of “privacy” . I haven’t seen anything to the contrary other than turning over metadata due to court order.

I like the federation for interacting with people in a way that’s similar to previous social media sites, but without the bloat and advertising.

It’s also nice to not have to deal with the extreme political rhetoric unless I specifically look for it, such as HexBear or .ML instances.

My mastodon is mostly queer/alternative folk and I share my music and exploits online diary style.

Lemmy is mostly how I used Reddit, but I’m less of a lurker here.

Maker tube (Peertube) is cool because I can watch, make, or share videos like YouTube used to be before the commercialization.

TanukiTunes (FunkWhale) is awesome because I can upload my own music or listen to music without having to fork over data, and I can donate/purchase music directly through the profile’s preferred method instead of Spotify hellscape.

I’ll eventually get a Pixelfed for my photography exploits. I occasionally use Mastodon to share cool pics I find.

All in all, Federation is my net home. Love it

Thank you so much for sharing this. I literally cannot stand the modern net. I’ve made it a point to curate personal websites. Found a bunch of cool ones on the lainchan web ring. Will check out Gemini

A lot of it has to do with Texas having the Gulf of Mexico ports all along the coast. It’s a big reason petrochemical refining is so big in Texas. Another plus for Texas is it’s abundance of land they can either buy or imminent domain. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not a Texas supporter, but it’s just one of those location based decisions I’m sure.

Not to mention if your a business in Texas you usually only get slaps on the wrist when you poison the environment. Worker safety? Mostly dependent on company policy with the main focus just barely making OSHA compliance. If the fine is cheaper than compliance, a lot of companies just pay the fine if it happens.

Man I remember seeing this at my local movie rental place back in the day wondering what the heck it was. Best rental ever

Holy shit former me hahaha

How could I forget. VCAs!!!!

They aren’t just for audio. You can send an envelope to activate an LFO periodically. Or an LFO to make an envelope have choppy behavior. You can send audio into your audio and do Amplitude Modulation. You can use logic gates to create small pockets of sequence bursts. Intellijel Quad VCA is great. Doepfer octa vca is even better for CV. VCA is required for any generative patching

Old thread revival, you’ve probably already came up for a solution so this is for future people most likely.

1. Most systems benefit from a function generator. Make Noise Maths is the obvious choice, followed by Befaco Rampage. Both are based on the Serge Dual Slope Generator with some extra utilities. Even if you don’t use it for envelopes, you can make complex LFOs with ease.

2. Attenuverters are dope! Intellijel Triplatt gives you three plus cv mixing capability. Even if your modules have built in attenuators or attenuversion, it’s just nice to have. Especially if the can generate an offset voltage.

3. Switches are nice to send the same modulation to many sources, or many modulations to one source. I’m partial to ALM Boss Bow Two

4. Distortion is a tough one. I liked the Saevitus tube distortion modules but Noise Engineering and Schlappi both make great distortions that are solid state. It’s tough to dial in usable distortion, the cleaner the source the better it will sound.

5. Random modulation is pretty spicy, the Make Noise Wogglebug is the patricians choice. The Buchla Source of Uncertainty is the classic though, fucking amazing module. I’m just partial to Wiard, hence my affinity to the Wogglebug.

6. A ton of your needs can be fixed with Pam’s Pro Workout, or even a used Pam’s New Workout. Triggers, LFOs, Envelopes, Random/Slewed Random, Logic, euclidian rhythms, humanizing, quantizing. It’s probably the best digital module ever made, atleast the best clock period. A decent choice for a dedicated clock is the make noise tempi. In a pinch, squarewave LFO and a clock divider. Doepfer makes both and they kick ass.

7. A filter would do well with your set up. QPAS or SSD Stereo Dipole are incredible, but even a simple State Variable Filter or two will help tame some harsh frequencies at worst and sound shape at best.

Anyways, this is my take.

Holy smokes that’s fucking wild. Reading that article sucked. I’m really happy for the indie passion projects that aren’t affected by this industry downturn as much.

AA games needs to come back, all these AAA and “AAAA” games are just ballooning costs and now the bubble has bursted.