#category: other

[revenant-coining]

Soda Flavored

(pt: Soda Flavored /end pt)

(id: a rectangular flag with 7 equally-sized horizontal lines. colors in order from top to bottom are darkish red, orange, light orange, pale yellow, light orange, orange, darkish red. in the center of the flag is a pale yellow half-circle outlined in darkish red. /end id)

Soda Flavored; a term for when is or wants to be soda flavored/taste like soda.

etymology; soda, flavored

for day 1 of @cocajimmycola’s event; for the prompt: “soda”

tagging; @radiomogai, @thecoffeecrew404, @daylightrecords, @donniesbf

[arbitrarygreay]

So I'm an old fart that still uses an mp3 player that transfers files via USB or SD card, and since changing to Linux, updating that thing has been PAINFUL due to the loss of MediaMonkey. Absolutely none of the modern Linux music players do proper playlist-based file syncing. (That is, you select the playlists to update, and sync both the files and the playlist m3u to the target device, even if the target device uses a different file folder structure from your computer.) Rhythmbox pretends to, but in practice you can only do it once and all subsequent tries error out. Having to wipe the entire gigabytes of data every single time I want to update the player? Um, no. The closest I got was using Strawberry to transfer files, but it doesn't sync the playlist itself, which is a huge hassle. And I know, another major old-fart moment, as the younguns these days just use cloud servers and dynamic playlists and service-based playlists and shit. Which is therefore what all of the non-dead Linux music players focus on. But I think I have finally got a working solution, by running 32-bit Foobar2000 through Wine with the OneWaySync component. (Although, I will still have to use a bash script to do auto-edits of the device playlist filepath, since Foobar is exporting Wine-assigned filepaths. Thankfully I already have one basically good to go from my Strawberry setup.)

[arbitrarygreay]

Sea otters and giant river otters are like if someone got two artists to design a giant otter, but ended up with two very different ideas on what they should look like cause one draws hello kitty fanart and the other was a nihilist.

[revenant-coining]

Cam Privawor

(pt: Cam Privawor /end pt)

Cam Privawor: a term for when one uses Cam as a noun, name, and/or pronoun set, but only with close friends/those close to oneself!

for our collective!

tagging @radiomogai & @daylightrecords

[arbitrarygreay]

Audacity for Debian-based Linux

So, some time around 2020/2021, Audacity for Linux from the repositories of Debian-based distros (including Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) no longer had access to high quality stretch (change tempo, change pitch, shifting slider). This appears to be due to a combination of Debian no longer updating Audacity at all past 2.4.2 (as Audacity's new owners from 3.0.0 on have had...issues, to put it lightly), but also the fact that 2.4.2 specifically was requiring a version of the SBSMS library past what Debian had. It's still the case that the apt version of Audacity on Linux Mint still lacks the high quality stretch functions.

The workaround for this is to compile from source. HOWEVER. Be apprised that if you specifically go for version 2.4.2, there is still a bug around SBSMS, which causes Audacity to crash when attempting high quality stretching. Apparently, if you go for versions afterwards (3.0+, new Audacity owners), or the version before (2.3.3), you will not run into this issue.

I am stubborn, so I have verified that I can now open Audacity 2.4.2 and do a high quality pitch change without crashing. Here are the solution options. Know that both are still compiling from source.

Option 1: Do it manually command by command on the terminal

You will, however, notice that the important download link for the patch is broken. You must get it from here.

Note that you should preface all of the commands listed in that post with "sudo", or they will likely throw an error. (Or do whatever you need to for terminal to continuously recognize root access.) In addition, note that the "pre-installation test" section is not optional. Audacity will not run if the "Portable Settings" folder is not created, and furthermore, the "Portable Settings" folder and all containing files need to have write permissions enabled to the relevant non-root group/owner.

Whether you installed manually or used the script, you will need to go to "/usr/local/share/audacity/audacity-minsrc-2.4.2/build/bin/Release" to launch Audacity. In the file explorer window, you can click the button to the left of the magnifying glass to switch to text input where you can copy and paste the above path. Or, from /home, go up one level, and then navigate through manually.

Change the launcher's icon and add it to the start menu/desktop, per your specific distro and desktop environment.

Option 2: Modify and run a bash script

I found a helpful Youtube video stepping through the process, before they link to a bash script automating the whole thing. However, the script does not include the 2.4.2 patch. There are also a few modifications that need to be done to the script.

Modifications to make (right click the .sh file, open with, pick some text editor):

Line 35: change the dl_directory to match your own system. (Specifically, you probably need to replace "piuser" with your own account name.)

This change also needs be done on lines 115, 116, and 120 (or replace the hard coded parts with "${DL_DIRECTORY}").

Line 77 (optional): add "patch" as a dependent package to check. Like Python, it's mostly likely already installed, so you could leave this commented out.

Lines 139-142: Not a modification, but a note that I didn't end up using this (left it commented out), so I did have to download the 2.4.2 source code from fosshub manually and put it in the location specified by dl_directory. I also put the patch there. If you do want to try to automate the download, you'll not only have to add another line to also download the patch file, but both the source code for 2.4.2 and the patch have hyphens in their urls, so you need to either add backslashes to escape them, or enclose the entire url in quotation marks. But I also can't guarantee that either of those things will work, since I ended up doing the downloads manually.

Line 150: Per the manual installation above, the patch needs to be applied before the build. Add this code block at line 150 (after the script checks to see if the "Build" folder exists):

#SBSMS patch required for 2.4.2 if [ -f "${DL_DIRECTORY}/changepitch.patch" ]; then sudo cp "${DL_DIRECTORY}/changepitch.patch" "${DIRECTORY}/${VERSION}" fi sudo patch -p 1 < changepitch.patch

That's it for changing the script. Save it, close out of the text editor. (If you decided not to try letting the script do the downloads, then make sure you download the source code and the patch and put them in the dl_directory location at this point.)

Enable the script to be executable. (Right click the .sh file, Properties. On the Permissions tab, check that "Allow executing file as a program" is checked.)

Double click the .sh file. I suggest doing the "Run In Terminal" option so you can see the progress. (And if it's really short, probably something went wrong. The build section takes 20 minutes.)

This script does not include installing the offline manual for Audacity. That is covered in the guide posted in Option 1. Sorry, you'll have to do some terminal typing after all.

Whether you installed manually or used the script, you will need to go to "/usr/local/share/audacity/audacity-minsrc-2.4.2/build/bin/Release" to launch Audacity. In the file explorer window, you can click the button to the left of the magnifying glass to switch to text input where you can copy and paste the above path. Or, from /home, go up one level, and then navigate through manually.

Change the launcher's icon and add it to the start menu/desktop, per your specific distro and desktop environment.

[aphel1on]

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

[arbitrarygreay]

For potential link rot purposes, music source is "Mii Channel but every note is a random pitch" by ploxyzero

Is this what hell looks like

[daughterofsarenrae]

If i missed any please let me know (yes i know sickness isnt on here, i had limited options)

[nutsack90]

she is appallingly underrated

[revenant-coining]

Femfutch

(pt: Femfutch /end pt)

Femfutch/Futchfem; a term for being fem/feminine & futch in some way!

etymology; fem futch/futch fem

for cyu!

tagging @radiomogai

[arbitrarygreay]

Oh lovely, now that readmores are completely Javascript (in fact, going to the HTML editor of a post that has one breaks them) means that they don't exist in the CSS view of a blog. STOP BREAKING WHAT WASN'T BROKEN BEFORE!

[drabbles-of-writing]

"Kai's good with kids!" slightly incorrect. Kai is good with stubborn, troublesome kids. Dudes been shown to be dogshit when solely interacting with pretty much all people younger than him except for Nya, Lloyd, & Wyldfyre

He raised Nya, but we know that girl. We've seen her. I know she was a NIGHTMARE kid. She has strong opinions, holds grudges, and does whatever she wants. I love her for this. I also know teenage Kai was fighting for his LIFE. Lloyd was Little Shit Extraordinaire, and he didn't have the bonus of being blood-related to Kai, so Kai had 0 incentive to like him. Even still, Kai heard a small child in distress and immediately Locked In and decided awesome, I'm protecting you forever now. Wyldfyre similarly annoyed the absolute shit out of him, but Kai had his Growth. He still threw hands with Wyldfyre but the difference here is he knew she could fight back. He clocked pretty immediately she had an impatient temper but had a very strong love for her tiny family of 2 (oh hey s1 Kai when'd you get here) and in NO time began flawlessly mentoring.

Kai is like a guy who went to a camp for troubled youths, grew up, then decided to become a counselor at that same camp. He can wrangle a teenage dirtbag out of an alley like a stray cat but if you put him in the same room as a fairly normal kid he's looking at them like this

[fratercrucis]

if someone is being mean to sam winchester then this is what I do

[duodipersponsh]

i never see people talk about it, so

happy july to autistics who can not listen to the same song more than once or they'll go mad

happy july to autistics who can't be near stimming people. you're not a bad person, you're disabled

happy july to autistics who can't eat the same food more than one or two times in a row. you're not faking it, you have food restrictions

happy july to autistics who panic when there's too much comfort food

happy july to autistics who watch videos on mute

happy july to autistics who have a routine that's good for them but who are lonely, bored or tired. autism sucks sometimes, agrh!

happy july to autistics who are scared to use their comfort items. i hope you can easily repair them/ask for help and replacements aren't hard to find. you deserve using things that bring you joy, that's what they're here for

happy july to autistics who get bouts of energy when they're so active/talkative/excited that they are exhausted and disappointed in the end

happy july to autistics who are so involved in their special interests they don't have the emotional resources to interact with them. i hope there's a way for you to engage with your favorite things slowly and quietly

happy july to every autistic person who has complicated feelings about their autism, who doesn't feel proud and who sometimes wishes they weren't autistic

autistic community on tumblr is great and it helped me see so many of my "quirks" and needs as neutral and common qualities, but autism is still a disorder and it's okay to feel frustrated with it, it's okay to complain and it's okay to ask for help!

[metamatronic]

y’all will never guess what i’m finally finishing up in the year of our lord 2025

[arbitrarygreay]

@azurepancake768 @haruka89

With GNOME, you can right-click-"Insert Emoji", use Ctrl+"." or "Ctrl+";". However, this only covers emoji, it does not include kaomoji.

For kaomoji input, you'll have to install something extra. These are the two that seem the most promising:

The key shortcut of "windows key" and "." held together has changed my life

like

emoji access? supremely powerful 🙂💖

But

Kaomoji ?

The year is 2013 and I am unstoppable ヾ(•ω•`)o o(*￣▽￣*)ブo(*°▽°*)o