Thanks, yea I have seen some of its workflow as a youtuber I have watched uses it as their DAW and it does seem really neat. Which license did you go for?

I know Surge and Helm but haven’t heard of Helio, thanks!

You are my hero, this is EXACTLY what I was hoping for. Thank you so, so much!

You truly only need one synth as long as it is a flexible, general purpose modern synth

It’s an ungodly amount of trouble to make an additive synth work like an FM synth and neither of those can accomplish what a wavetable synth does without even more work so I really have to disagree. Vital is great, but it would take way too long to make it do what Arturias Vocoder V does for example, or even at that, as easy to use for that specific purpose.

Technically you are correct, but I would rather spend my time making music instead of spending hundreds or thousands of hours setting up automations and almost unnoticeable tweaks to make each effect and each instrument work in a way I want them to (like if I want a specific sound of known instruments).

Like, I could make a full song with several “instruments” using one sample of a spoon falling off of a table too, and that’s neat, but it’s also not what I want to be doing. If I wanted this involved of a workflow, I would probably be making my music in a tracker or on a physical, fully modular synthesizer.

Inspirations come a lot easier when you have many synths with many presets in my experience, and tweaking a lot of their parameters for the sounds they make are usually simple if you are using the actual thing you want instead of something else.

Furthermore, most of Arturias V collection are emulations of the real physical hardware, and this is why I like them. I could use vital to try to emulate a Juno-106 with degraded voice chips, but the Arturia Juno emulation lets you do this with 2 clicks.

Anyway, I know what you are trying to say, but it is not what I am looking for most of the time. For stuff like that I play around with my Roland P-6 and Korg Monotrons.

Thanks.

So the V collection is similar to analog lab in that it can be downloaded from the same software center and may use their licensing from that, but the gripe is whether or not I need Arturia’s software center installed somehow in the first place. Is your version of analog lab licensed? If so, do you recall how you got it installed/working/Licensed under linux (using their software center or some other way?). I am not sure if you can just grab a VST/LV2 from them - I was under the impression you needed to install your licensed products via that software center.

Thanks

I had to click 4 times over 90 seconds on “sleep” on my work laptop windows 11 machine today before it actually did anything.

A meme can’t be more right.

I don’t agree with the sentiment that a word used by one guy next to a slur they also used imparts a derogatory meaning to the word as well. If this were the case, we would have a problem with a lot more words.

If someone said “F-slurs shine like a rainbow”, that doesn’t make the words shine or rainbow derogatory.

Furthermore with the contextual usage of glowie considered - if it is derogatory, then its usage shows that its derogatory to members of the CIA rather than people of color.

However if people continue to cite glowie as a slur for people of color, then people might start to use it in that context, and then it becomes a slur for people of color.

Therefore I would recommend not citing the use of the word in this way because all it can do is eventually add a derogatory connotation that doesn’t currently exist outside of being next to a slur during one usage or the creation of it.

Depends on whose definition it is.

Some define alcoholism as a dependence on the substance alone, others define it as a continued use of the substance despite it causing problems for the individual, other definitions require that the user display signs of physical dependency/withdrawal syndrome when no longer using the substance.

Anecdotally, in my experience usually people only begin referring to someone as an alcoholic when they become physically dependent and experience withdrawals when stopping use.

For me I feel like the real move with one of these is to have it rapidly increase the volume instead of turning off the TV because it will probably make the person who is playing it loud feel like people think it is them who is turning it up that much intentionally.

In most cases I think this would mortify them, leading them to turn it back down further than it was originally, or even turn it off themselves since they don’t want to be seen as an asshole and don’t want the attention on them.

Subconsciously I would also think this would prevent them from turning it up again in the future.

Depends on the person though.

I’ve stopped paying attention to what any regular news source says about anything themselves since it is all basically profit driven and therefore unreliable. Rather I just pay attention to sources where I can see what is said or done from the horses mouth directly, and then pay attention to people’s reactions to such things.

These are usually few and far between, but I’m talking about what was written or said by specific persons with the clear source of it coming from their personally verified outlets.

I also wait on this information before thinking too much about it as well because god knows if someone catches something out for being AI generated or a deepfake or what have you in this day and age. After a few days it gains some actual credibility as coming from that person and being the genuine article.

It is also important to still not trust what any one person says about something else as well, or even multiple persons. I can never really trust what is said by anyone as facts anymore - rather this only gives insight into that specific persons opinions on the other thing.

In the face of mountains of clear evidence and individually verified sources from many multiple persons - then and only then can I begin to trust something as fact.

There isn’t a straightforward way to do it as far as I can see - most likely because instances usually don’t want tonnes of requests for tonnes of data.

If you have knowledge in programming it would be feasible to write a script that either uses the Lemmy API to get this, or otherwise web scrape it.

Missed that update, that’s great to know. Thanks!

However, If I recall correctly, I think that when creating a post if you upload an image then it is immediately put into the database whether or not the post is actually made. As a result I don’t think there is a way to overwrite these, so some trace would still remain in such an instance if I am not mistaken.

Furthermore none of this prevents or rectifies snapshots or backups of data being created by pretty much any entity - I know that’s probably not in the scope of the question, but just something tangentially related to keep in mind.

I’m not looking for anything, I was describing an experience I can’t explain per the thread which was probably mechanical or electrical in nature. Unsure how you got that impression.

One time on a summer day as a teenager I went to the grocery store with my Mom.

We parallel parked the car a ways away from other cars. We secured the car as normal and went on a short shopping trip.

When we came back out after maybe 15 minutes, all of the cars windows were rolled down completely.

We both know for a fact all the windows were rolled up when we left, and even if we had them down, there would have been no reason to have the back windows down.

Nothing was stolen, no one was around, everything appeared untouched.

This was a Nissan Murano if I recall correctly - it did have power windows, but at the time there was no fancy stuff to remote control car features outside of having a remote starter installed, which we did not have.

There was only one set of keys.

We still have absolutely no explanation for this to this day.

It’s to verify if either a configuration in Bazzite is the cause(such as your drivers), or if it is hardware related. The other comment asking if you installed the Nvidia version of Bazzite suspects driver issues as well, so a live USB would be able to rule it out or confirm it.

Alternatively, and probably the better option is to just take backups of your files and such and then reinstall Bazzite to the system, making sure you are using a version that is compatible with your graphics card. You don’t seem as though you know a tonne about Linux, so I would probably recommend that over trying to rebase the OS, as it will generally be easier for you to do I think, and more completely insure system stability.

Hey all, I discovered two issues with the QK101 on Linux, figured out the fixes, and I thought I would come back to explain the fixes for any other Linux users such as myself who might be looking for a solution to the same problem if they purchase this board in the future.

As a reference point, please note that I am on the stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64.

I encountered two issues. The first was that when going to VIA to configure the board (the QK101 SPECIFICALLY uses the version of VIA found at https://cfg.qwertykeys.com/ at the time of writing), even after pairing the HID, VIA would not do anything and would not detect the board. To fix this I made two changes. First I swapped to the cable that came with the board. Second, instead of using a Chromium based browser, I found I had to use Chromium ITSELF.

I had done some other stuff I can’t fully recall regarding permissions of the hidraw devices under /dev/ as well, but I think you only have to touch these if the device doesn’t show up as a choice when choosing a device when authorizing it in VIA. If one thinks they need to change permissions on these, note that the keyboard has multiple hidraw devices mounted, and they can be determined by opening via and chrome://device-log/ in different tabs and then trying to authenticate. Using the device log you should be able to see which hidraw devices you should be working with.

The second issue was that even though I could remap keys, change some colors etc, I could not perform firmware updates, or make custom animations for the screen/LED matrix - trying to save would just state “Save failed” on VIA.

The problem here is related to the permissions of the serial device as it is represented in the OS.

To determine which interface it is on one’s system, they can run the command sudo watch -n 2 "ls /dev/ | grep tty | column" and unplug/replug the keyboard as needed to determine which tty represents the keyboard. In my case I found it to be ttyACM0. Once this is determined, you can quit out of the watch command with ctrl + C.

If the user runs cat /dev/ttyACM0 and receives a permission denied error, it will verify that the user account does not have access to the serial interface of the device, and this is why VIA is unable to write certain data back to the board.

The best fix here is to simply add your user to the dialout group, which will have the effect of giving the user account access to the serial ports. This is achievable with the command sudo usermod -aG dialout USERNAME where USERNAME is your username.

Some information on the internet states that you only have to log out and back in after this to have the group addition take effect, but in my case I discovered that I had to restart the system entirely. To verify if you are in the group, you can just run the groups command by itself.

Once this is done, you can go back into via to test adding an LED Matrix animation or some sort - for me it worked at this point.

Thanks!

Lol, yea I had a similar thought when writing it.

My Mom who plans these games takes it seriously because she wants people to have a good time, but has a really difficult time finding something which she considers accessible enough for everyone while still imparting some kind of challenge. She usually defaults to trivia, but then thinks that it should be Christmas trivia. The problem therein is that after 30 or more years of doing this, it has become wildly stale as there is only so much Christmas trivia, and it is not very engaging at all.

Last year I came to her with about 5 different new game ideas, all but one was shot down for some reason or another. The one that did get through went really well, but I am still thinking of others things I could bring to her well in advance, as she needs to mull over the logistics of whether they would meet her criteria for an acceptable party game.

The couple I have built are mostly built by myself with some outside suggestions from a friend. Usually you are safe to browse anything so long as you can find some legitimate user reviews (Video reviews preferably) - pre-orders, and especially group buys can be risky. This goes for parts as well as full boards. It’s also good to look into whether the seller has good documentation/a build guide if the keyboard does nifty things that are not very standard. I just got a QwertyKeys QK101 which I finished building last night - I can verify that they as a seller were really quite fast as far as delivery goes, and the board is working quite nicely, has some really neat magnetic connections inside that connects the battery to the PCB and the PCB to the screen which made that really easy. Also hot swappable for the switches, so I didnt have solder anything. Have also heard pretty good things about their other boards. For switches I use a seller called RNDKBD, and for caps I usually look at DeskHero or CanonKeys.

I made a post with a picture and part list you can see on my profile.

Nice! I just finished building mine last night - it has Gateron root beer floats.