I mean not necessary inside the rain but just in its vicinity.

Do you have these sense of "damn, what are we even doing here" just hearing the rain, just staring out the window.

Do you ever just lowkey "flashback" to some time earlier. As if your brain kinda paused the moment, as if this is a tv show or anime plot.

Like the futher you stare into the distance, the more you feel that you've come a long way from your spawnpoint (okay but even if you never moved away from your birthplace, you still moved along on the tine axis, memories separated by oceans of time)

Why did I even post this? Idk its raining and I dont wanna do anything. Feels kinda like the typical sad scenes in media, raining is cue for something sad about to happen. Just need the sad piano music too lol.

I main on fingerstyle guitar, but I find my aural understanding on guitar feels impeded. Now I know music theory and how the fretboard works, but translating it is so damn laborious.

I've played other instruments, and this is what I've noticed about their impact:

1. Penny whistle. It's mostly in one key. The root will always be the same fingering and the fifth will always be the same fingering. I think this helps with making associations with sound and scale degree, as opposed to more chromatic instruments played in different keys. [Also used a transposing electronic digital instrument to the same effect.]

2. Clarinet: Having to figure out the fingerings made me painfully aware of key signatures and where the sharps and flats are. On guitar you can smoothly shift up or down a fret without much thought or just play in position, but on clarinet there is often a specific button or button combo you need to get one specific note.

3. This is the big one: Piano. You do need to bring a little theory into it to know what chords you're playing, but the actual NOTES you are playing are immediately obvious, and since I'm building all these chords myself, I know exactly where the third is and how to lower it to make a major a minor, or where to add a major seventh, so I can also very quickly ask myself, "What if went with a minor chord here instead" and almost instantly be able to play it. On guitar, there's a tendency to just memorize chords as shapes without knowing where the chord tones are because each shape has them in a different configuration (which is why eyes-closed arpeggio exercises are absolutely vital for guitarists).

[On piano it's also easier to play the same inversions over and over again, which might help you learn the sound. You can play a whole song with Root-3rd-Fifth if you want, but on guitar, the common chord shapes are a kaleidoscope of chord tones. For instance, common chord tones on root chords:

C: O-R-3-5-R-3
F: R-5-R-3-5-R
G: R-3-5-R-3-R
]

I'm curious about violin, too, because I'm betting needing to intonation just right really sharpens your ear.

What's your experience?

[SOLVED! A new POST counts as a new COMMENT. This is obviously not ideal.]

Just harvesting some new subs and find that the majority of subs are very low engagement, so I thought I'd turn on "Sort by New Comments" via Voyager to eliminate any posts with 0 comments.

But those zero-comment posts are still appearing. I don't think they have blocked comment because the comment count is zero...

Anyone have any insight?

Edit:

I’m visiting someone I know at their home for the first time and want to take sensible safety precautions. I have an AirTag in my wallet, and I share my location with a trusted friend who lives in another country. What else would you recommend, especially since my friend won’t be nearby if I need help?

Please no doomer responses.

I’ve been playing my guitar a fair bit. Relearning the solo dem another brick in the wall pt 2 because I never learned it right whe I was in high school and really wanna get that 5 fret bend down right. Havent learned a solo in a while, pretty easy reintro to solos.

Been getting my old anet 8 3d printer working again for a project for my girlfriend. Pretty fun iterativeprocess.

Also fucking around with retro games on an old pi I had sitting around. Contra hard corps is hella fun.

So what do you like doing? What have you been having fun with? What do you like?

@asklemmy@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.ml @ask l wish to build up a workstation right from scratch, where l can do basic animation, graphics and games. I wish to build it up purely on floss products as l wish to work entirely with Foss.

Can anybody suggest what are the likely hardware components that would go into building up such a workstation ?? I would also be modifying the machine later on according to my requirements, so I need to build it up accordingly.

#animation #graphics #blender #godot

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/55223705

Any recommendation about anything is welcome. I was thinking about reading something from Gigerenzer or Kahneman what do folks think?

There is a guy at work 2 heads taller and more muscular than me I find very strange: he seems to enjoy to either ask or tell me what he thinks about me without any filters: He either asks intrusively if everything is OK, staring at me like it’s an interrogation or blurts out loud what he thinks about my face (you look angry). It’s always when I’m preparing to do my job (checking the computer, taking notes) or when I’m working (looking for files). I’m starting to feel intimidated. I don’t talk to him but he talks to me, I don’t want to talk to him to listen what he thinks about me. Can’t he see I’m working? Doesn’t he have things to do? Or anything better than blurt out what he thinks about me?

I’m also a man, but smaller than him and I keep my opinions to myself.

Is this mobbing? Would contacting HR be of any good? Any ideas to deal with this kind of person?

This has happened twice already in 3 weeks, so you decide if this is a pattern.

I never thought Id be excited for a garbage can, but after going through multiple plastic cans and having the lid mechanism fail on cheaper metal cans, I broke down and got a more expensive one from Simple Human. I feel the quality everytime I use the step to toss something. It sounds so dumb, but I'm really blown away after years of crappy cans.

Aside from that, my python water changer for aquariums. That thing has been the goat for years at this point.

Egg Nog, for me.

It used to excite me in the past that when October rolls around, I'm anticipating when and how early I'm to see those egg nog cartons and bottles come out. I always try to get as much time in with it as I can between October and December.

But lately, I tried drinking some and the thickness of the drink itself, takes some to get through. It just makes you feel fuller and when you think you've got room in your body for it and you drink it, you feel disgusted. But overall, just drinking through the thickness of it, ugh.

I've been wondering this question for a while. Ignoring current events, why is a little bit of inflation desirable?

I do understand that it's done to "stimulate" the economy so people don't let their cash rot in a checking account, but isn't it a zero-sum game? Everybody says that money is not meant to stay where it is, rather, should flow through the economy. But if the economy always needs injections of liquidity because otherwise it fails, isn't the economy broken?

I feel like there's something I can't comprehend about that.

I started using chatbots yesterday and it surprised me how complete and articulate answers are. Main topics would be apparel, sewing, cooking, finance, ETFs, taxes, house maintenance, retirement.

Do you consider AI good enough to substitute human interaction? Because I remember a south park episode where randy marsh ignores his wife to interact exclusively with a bot. A parody of course but we have already plenty of AI porn and AI short stories for gullible people… and it works because they don’t stop watching (and sometimes believe it to be real).

I was always kind of an anti AI guy due to privacy, to avoid LLMs monetizing my questions and because I didn't want to be a moron who has nothing better to do than to watch AI slop, but this is a tool so pervasive and practical I’m only isolating myself if I opt out of it. Thoughts?

Are there any questions you won’t ask a bot so the company behind it doesn’t monetize your input?

So often I see a YouTube video in my feed that I think is titled as herbole and don't want to reward the poster for their click bait bullshit, but there's no way to know without opening the video and checking comments.

My BX750MI-GR has saved my precious data on two occasions. Earlier this year, my seven year old, well used waffle iron shorted, popping loudly and sparking quite brightly in the process, probably because of all the gunk that had accumulated inside its less cleanable interior over the years. That not only made my breaker trip, but also blew the 16 amp main fuse. The UPS kicked in immediately, making a klick and a beep, which felt amazing. That was my first time ever.

As for the second time, see this post.

I have seen people say they do writing in their free time. But I dont understand what they write about. Do you just pick a topic research about it and then summarize it. Is it whatever comes into the mind?

If someone asks me to write about something, I would probably write about Tech but even that I can not do in great length.

What do you write about and how? Do you copy certain writting style from great authors? How do you increase your vocabulary (i think before writting one must read a lot)

I would've wanted to be a freelance builder, crafter, designer and engineer. Here's why I know I can't, it's because I am terrible with just knowing things. An experienced craftsman knows their tools by heart, can pick one up that they absolutely need for the job at hand. They know their workshop, inside and out. They can calculate measurements with barely thinking. They just have it together.

That's not me. You can show me 3 different types of a philips screwdriver and for every one, I'd be like "erm..uh, still philips to me!" when there is subtle differences between them. I can barely measure things to save my life. I am just stunted to learn so many of these things, but I'm only capable of doing small projects at the very least.

People like Adam Savage really have inspired me, having seen the things he can do and how passionate he is about what he does. I love that. I wish I could be that. But I'm not.

No pharmaceutical aids preferably

I honestly hate myself for still feeling this way at 23. Whenever I’m out, I always feel like the ugliest girl in the room, and it literally makes me feel completely worthless. It sucks watching how nicely everyone treats beautiful women. Nobody ever says anything mean to them. Guys are always looking out for them, and other girls always have their back. They get this pass in life that I’ve never had. No one has ever helped or protected me except my parents.I’ve learned to just rely on myself, because my parents won't be around forever and nobody else gives a damn about me. Maybe this is how it should be.

Hey All,

I'm in the US and looking for an alternative to the Nextdoor app that allows me to connect with my neighbors, and possibly includes a marketplace. The current state of Nextdoor's racism and transphobia makes it unusable. I even live in a relatively progressive part of the US. I would really love to have an app that lives up to the standards it claims to have. I know that's a BIG ask though. Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1526797/how-do-you-deal-with-fears-of-the-world-changing-too-fast-around-you

And no, please dont suggest homeless shelters, those are just unsafe and very demoralizing.

The very first thing I looked for (and forgive me for this, this is gonna be a controvertial one here) is the military, because thats just what lots of reddit threads mentioned, and like it would be an immediate exit from a toxic household, and yes, that would mean enduring an institution thats also kinda toxic, but thats only a few years and you're free, and its much more predictable. Except they dont accept anyone with depression and you have to prove you're "fine" for probably 36 months to even get a waiver. So that's crossed off as an option.

Jobcorps, well thats for low income families, and being a dependent means your parents income is what counts so i dont qualify

Americorps NCCC, well that seems seasonal and the next thing doesnt start till like months later (not sure if I'm even reading the website correctly)

Ngl I lowkey just thought of enlisting so once I finish that, next time we meet, I could stand in front of my toxic brother just staring at him menacingly, like whatcha gonna do, fight with an ex-soldier? Not to mention the prestiege of veteran status. And btw its only 1% thats acrually ever gonna face real combat so its not like WW1&2 trench warfare, its mostly just logistics, and like a civillian job, you'd be contributing to shareholder value anyways so there isnt really much of a "moral highground" either way, except working a retail job or some shit is very demoralizing but military has the reverance. And also

But anyways I'm not eligible anytime soon anyways. I doubt I'm even "manly" enough for it.

Bruh idk what to do really, you know that one movie, Parasite where like they work in a rich person's mansion and that shit. I'm not a fan of rich people but like I lowkey wanna like just "housesitter" and chill in some nice mansion with great views, and maybe even find secrets and become a movie plot. (edit: okay this part I'm half joking, its more like a fantasy daydream of "I get to be in a movie plot" probably unrealistic for someone that never been in proximity of high wealth)

I'm in Philly, PA btw.

(Also should I pack light with just a backpack and just one or two change of clothes and laundry often or just carry every clothing I could fit in a suitcase?)