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[stealingpotatoes]

after 6 years and ~4400 arts my ipad is royally shitting itself so. bye bye ipad and procreate it's been a good run

[stellewriites]

the thing about designing my work’s website is that i did fine art for 3 years so i have biased opinions and my boss has some very….. “graphic design is my passion” kind of ideas and no matter what i say she doesn’t change her mind and i have to like reluctantly just go along with it even when it inevitably looks like shit

[pseudophan]

What happened to your laptop ?

i left it somewhere after my internship on friday and i don't know where!! i genuinely did not realise until i was about to walk out the door like an hour and a half ago. has not crossed my mind at all whatsoever. but now that i think about it i'm like... i don't think i had it with me off the bus... but did i even bring it ON the bus? is it at the shopping centre where i stopped to eat? i have no idea. i've contacted all the lost and founds imaginable though and they're all like nah nothing here, so..

but also it hasn't pinged since i turned it on at 10am on friday, i turned it off before leaving around 1 and it doesn't look like it's been turned on since. i guess i just have to wait and see if anyone contacts me but otherwise im fucked lol

[fleshadept]

you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this

[davepaste]

Installing tidal-dl-ng + finding some "freely available" premium accounts got me a nice mostly trustworthy source of lossless music with synced lyric files

[foxball]

adobe caused me to turn to piracy again after like 15 years... the process is so much smoother today than i remember. it might be because i am no longer 14

[tealfruit]

I think I just really like movies. I'm gonna turn into a film bro but like the fun kind who also enjoys bad movies. if I ever go back to school I'll take a film class of some sort

[dj-of-the-coven]

How to Burn Your Own CDs - a guide for Windows users

Are you--yes, you!--tired of paying money to stupid shit like spotify for your music? Do you hate the way that the music industry takes almost all the profit that bands make through streaming and leaves them with pennies? Have you ever wanted to fire up that old CD-Radio in the corner of your bedroom, only to be stopped because all you have on CD is Weezer's blue album and a copy of Kidz Bop 16 that you don't remember buying? Well this guide just might be for you!

Materials you'll need:

A computer. Can't do it without this one.

A CD drive. It can be internal or external, but you'll need one either way. You can find them at Office Depot for fairly cheap and I've heard that some Walmarts carry them.

A pack of CD-Rs. CD-Rs, or CD Recordables, come in packs of 20, 50, or 100. A proper 100-pack should cost you no more than $30, so unless there's some special shortage in your area, don't buy from anywhere selling them at a markup. CD blanks are literally 50c a piece.

CD cases. Sold wherever CD-Rs are, but you can also find these at thrift stores pretty easily.

A sharpie or some kind of permanent marker

Software you'll need:

Jdownloader. You can acquire mp3s through Bandcamp if you're dedicated to righteousness, but for everyone else, install jdownloader or some other kind of open-source download program. I will be proceeding as if you have jdownloader available.

Windows media player. This should open automatically when you insert a CD-R into your CD drive.

Fre:ac audio converter. This is only for the occasion that you encounter OPUS or mp4a files that cannot be interpreted by your CD player.

Note: If you're very determined not to download software onto your computer, you can use free youtube downloaders and audio converters, but these are subject to viruses and other issues such as download speed. I will be proceeding as if you have the programs I listed.

The process:

Decide what you want to burn--anything goes, but keep in mind the time limit on your CD-Rs. Most will record 90 minutes or less.

Open jdownloader, switch to the linkgrabber tab, then paste youtube links in any order until you have all the music you want. I'd personally recommend doing it song-by-song instead of a full album stream, because a massive file will require a lot of work to separate back into searchable tracks.

De-select all files except audio on the right-hand side options menu.

Make a folder inside the music folder of your laptop and label it with the name of your mix CD.

In the properties tab of each song on jdownloader, change the destination folder to the folder you've just created.

Hit "start all downloads".

Once finished, open each folder. If everything is an .mp3 or a .wav, skip the next 2 steps.

Open Fre:ac audio converter to convert all audio files that aren't .mp3 or .wav into .mp3 or .wav.

Drop the converted files next to the unconverted files in your folder. If you wish, you can delete the originals to make the folder easier to browse.

Put your blank CD-R into the CD drive. If external, plug in your CD drive first or the tray will refuse to open.

Windows media player will open automatically. On the right-hand side, you will see the tracklist of your CD-R (which should be blank). On the left, you will see the audio that your computer is able to find in the music folder. Put your selected tracks IN ORDER onto the tracklist.

Listen to the beginning and ending of each track to make sure there isn't a significant time gap. This also prevents accidentally burning a youtuber's stupid outro if you missed it before.

When satisfied, hit "start burn".

On an external drive, the CD tray will open upon completion. You can reinsert it to ensure that the burning went smoothly.

Once satisfied, remove the CD from your drive. With your sharpie or permanent marker, write the name of the album on the front, then store safely inside a CD case.

you did it👍

Ask me if you run into any issues.

Legal disclaimer: this guide is purely for educational purposes and I do not admit to or take responsibility for any piracy committed using the instructions given.

Illegal disclaimer: cops suck my dick

[what-even-is-thiss]

Free or Cheap German Learning Resources for all your Hochdeutsch Needs

I will update this list as I learn of any more useful ones. If you want general language learning resources check out this other post. This list is German specific. Find lists for other specific languages here.

For the purposes of this list "free" means something that is either totally free or has a useful free tier. "Cheap" is a subscription under $10USD a month, a software license or lifetime membership purchase under $100USD, or a book under $30USD. If you want to suggest something to add to this list, include things in this price range that are of good quality and not AI generated.

WEBSITES

DW - A public broadcasting service from Germany that also has a German learning section. They have videos, tv series, and lessons from beginner to advanced. The website is free to use with an account.

Gothe Institut - An organization affiliated with the German government that administers language level tests and promotes German culture abroad. They have a lot of free exercises and test questions. If you're willing to pay they may also have classes available in your region.

thegermanproject.com - A free website with explanations of beginner German concepts and stories to read for people at the beginner level.

germancorrector.com - A free website that will correct your spelling and grammar. You can also set the dialect to Switzerland or Austria.

Your Daily German - A blog in English by a native German speaker named Emanuel who makes posts about grammar, vocabulary, tips, and suggestions for reading.

YOUTUBE CHANNELS

Comprehensible Germani - A comprehensible input channel with German lessons in German using visual aids. Has content from beginner through upper intermediate.

Learn German - A channel that explains certain concepts and provides listening practice. The channel uses a mix of German and English.

Chill German - A channel that makes vlogs in slow German. They have videos from beginner to lower advanced levels.

Natürlich German - A comprehensible input channel that talks about different aspects of German culture and other topics as well. Has videos for complete beginner to lower advanced. This channel hasn't updated in a while but there's a large archive to watch through.

Easy German - A channel that has a combination of videos about basic German phrases for beginners and videos with interviews on the street in German speaking regions. The channel has dual language German/English subtitles on screen. The hosts of this channel also have a podcast for intermediate to advanced learners.

Expertly German - A channel about learning German with discussion of grammar, vocab, and business German. The channel is entirely in German.

Deutsch Mit Lari - A channel with a mix of German Lessons and vlogs in slow German. Content ranges from beginner to intermediate. All content and explanations are in German.

Learn German With Anja - A channel with a mix of lessons and videos on culture and living in Germany. Videos are in a mix of both English and German and often have dual language subtitles on screen.

READING PRACTICE

German graded readers by Olly Richards Short Stories in German, Intermediate Short Stories in German, Conversations in Simple German, Western Philosophy in Simple German, World War 2 in Simple German. Books tend to range from $4-$20 depending if you buy the digital or print versions. The books can also generally be found easily at used book stores or used on Amazon for cheaper.

Dino Lernt Deutsch - A series of short stories for beginners about a man named Dino lost in various German speaking countries. The full series new in print costs about $25 but it can be bought used or as a digital edition. Each individual story can also be bought separately

Nachrichtenleight - A website with news articles in simple German. The website is entirely in German.

AlumniPortal - Website with articles about business, academics, and other related topics organized by difficulty level. Has articles from upper beginner to upper intermediate. The website is entirely in German.

Grimm Stories - A website with an archive of the original Grimm's fairy tales. Language may be a bit archaic. The website is available in multiple languages.

PODCASTS

Slow German Podcast - Advertises itself as being for beginner to lower intermediate. The host talks about everyday topics such as seasonal weather and describing your apartment.

Easy German Podcast - The hosts from the Easy German Youtube channel talk about different topics, news, and answer questions from listeners in clear and understandable German.

News in Slow German - It is a podcast with news in slow German, including international news and culture news. Only a small section of the program is available for free.

Top-Thema Mit Vokalbeln - A podcast from DW for lower intermediate learners that discusses news topics in simple German and provides vocabulary lists related to the episode topic.

German Stories - A podcast for beginners in a mix of English and German that gives lessons through dialogues and short stories.

Speaking of Berlin - A podcast by Babbel of Berliners telling personal stories in slow German.

SELF STUDY TEXTBOOKS AND DICTIONARIES

Complete German All-in-One from McGraw Hill - a textbook that also doubles as a workbook. It’s more expensive at about $30. It’s difficult to find intact used copies of this book because it’s also a workbook and people tend to write all over it and tear it up. However the sentence builder and grammar sections are sold separately for much cheaper if you just want one or the other.

German Made Easy - Individual books in this series tend to be about $10-$20. From what I’ve read it’s just fine but it’s cheap and has all the beginner concepts you need and used copies are fairly easy to find online.

Easy German Step By Step - This is McGraw Hill’s budget option at $12-$16 new. Though as this one isn’t a workbook, it’s easier to find used copies. It focuses hard on only the most frequently used vocabulary and grammar concepts to get someone started as quickly as possible. It’s also available in audiobook form.

German Grammar Complete - This book is a full comprehensive guide to all levels of grammar from absolute beginner to college level. However it’s on the more expensive side at $30 and the workbook is sold separately.

DK German to English illustrated dictionary - This dictionary is sorted by topic and includes pictures and English translations. This is a new edition and is slightly harder to find used as I’m writing this. The base price is about $20 but there are older editions of this dictionary that might be easier to find used.

Merriam-Webster’s German to English Dictionary - The OG. The legend. The menace. The classic bilingual dictionary. Simple. Many words. Decent explainations. Only $8 new. Easy to find used older editions.

SERIES FOR LEARNERS AND KIDS TV

Hallo Aus Berlin - A series infamous among German students everywhere. Made in the early 2000s for use in classrooms, it has ten episodes of kids talking about certain topics like numbers and going out to a restaurant. It also has a number of songs. It’s cringey but in a fun way in my opinion.

Löwenzahn - a kids tv series aimed at very young audiences that’s been on for several decades. Every episode discusses one topic like bridges or factories so you’ll hear certain words repeated a lot. Theres only been a couple of different hosts so the presentation style remains consistent and unlike some other shows for kindergarteners it’s not obnoxiously loud and can be enjoyable for adults.

Sesamstraße - Sesame Street in German and localized for the German market with different themes and characters. In their YouTube channel you can find clips from as far back as the 1970s.

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[the-one-that-weeps]

Can we please talk about how awfully rich the project sekai cast is.

- More more jump is composed of three reformed idols. If that's not enough, they also do shows fairly often and I bet those tickets sell well.

- Shizuku is also a model.

- And if that's not enough, Papa Hinomori is a well known artist.

- the Tenmas are pretty rich (just take a look at their house).

- Also Ichika afforded to buy a Miku software so she's not poor either.

- Shinodad is also a well known artist, the Shinonomes live fairly comfortably if I remember correctly.

- Toya is like the second richest character in the game.

- Ken doesn't act rich but that doesn't mean he's not a well known artist and if you've read any of the vbs area convos you know the RADder copies still sell after all these years

- Emu is the richest character in the game. I don't think I even have to specify why. The Otoris literally own an airline.

- Wxs also do shows all the time. Ticket money part 2

- Kanadad probably struggled financially after his failure as an artist, but Kanade doesn't only make enough profit to survive but also pays Honami every week or so. Also, she has really neat equipment in her room, so Kanadad used to have a fair amount of cash.

- Everyone who goes at Miya girl is automatically rich. It's a PREP SCHOOL

- Also Mafumom pays Mafuyu for grad school and I don't think that's a cheap miracle.

- Not only that but Niigo are probably the most popular group out of the cast, their channel has a lot of followers and their videos get thousands of views. This actually makes me question if they like. Split the money somehow. Or do they just give it to Kanade because no way she's living off of her grandma's pension.

- imagine Niigo getting the youtube golden play button because I need this to actually happen now

[coraniaid]

In addition to the fact that Buffy having to get a job is a pretty core part of Season 6's wider themes of growing up and having to live in the world and realize life isn't always as romantic and heroic and simple as you'd imagined as a child, I think the show is actually pretty consistent when it comes to Joyce not being all that well off financially.

Sometimes people talk about Tara and Willow staying in Buffy's house over the summer she was dead as if Joyce had left Buffy some vast inheritance which they'd selfishly blown through without thinking, but I don't think that's supported by the text at all.

We know that Joyce started her own business when she moved to Sunnydale (I've seen some people suggest Joyce might be working for an existing gallery that was already present in Sunnydale, but in Welcome To The Hellmouth she tells Buffy "we may have found a space" for it and in Witch the gallery has its "first major show", which all seems to suggest that it didn't exist until Joyce arrived). We know Joyce spends a lot of time and effort trying to make the business work (Buffy says she must be tired when her mom gets home late one evening in Season 1's Angel and Joyce agrees that she is: "we're a little gallery, you have no idea how much..."). We know she doesn't have much of a staff: maybe just one assistant (the never-seen Carol; who might be the person Joyce is thinking of when she tells Buffy she can try to find somebody to cover for her at the gallery for her birthday when he dad cancels). We know that Joyce is bringing inventory home as early as Witch and that she soon starts using Buffy's room for storage after she leaves for college, which suggests that she doesn't have much free space at the gallery or many people to help her. We know the gallery is open on weekends (as per Prophecy Girl), that Joyce has to travel out of town to look for new art to purchase (which is why she's absent in What's My Line?). We know Joyce doesn't have much of a social life outside of work (she met Ted because was selling software she bought for the gallery, and she met I Was Made To Love You's Brian on her first day back at work there).

Obviously there are other, less mundane reasons why Buffy never gets to go on that trip to Disneyland she daydreams about in What's My Line?, but it feels noticeable that -- while her shadow self Cordelia talks about trips to Tuscany and St Croix and Aspen -- the closest thing Buffy ever gets to a holiday is ... visiting her dad in LA over the summer once? The nearest thing to a holiday Joyce ever seems to get is the one year she visits her sister for Thanksgiving. And, honestly, maybe this is part of the reason Joyce makes such a big deal of Christmas despite not seeming to be all that religious otherwise: this is the closest thing to the sort of holiday Buffy used to enjoy that she's capable of offering her now after the divorce.

We know that Joyce is "dreaming of bills" when Buffy wakes her up in Season 1's The Puppet Show, and when she buys Buffy a new dress in Prophecy Girl Buffy protests that "we can't afford this". (Obviously on the actual show Buffy wears an impossibly huge range of different outfits every single day which isn't particularly consistent with this reading, but I think we have to treat that the same way we treat the fact she apparently regularly goes to sleep wearing a full face of makeup: the actual teenage Buffy, as opposed to the version played by SMG we see on screen, probably does not own nearly so many clothes). When Joyce is encouraging Buffy to go to Northwestern in Season 3's Choices she admits it's "not cheap" but says they can make it work "if your father pitches in". When Buffy buys textbooks for college in The Freshman she jokingly worries the cost might give her mother an aneurysm. In School Hard Buffy talks about having a lot of pressure on her and Joyce tells her to "wait til you have job", and while obviously the reason for that line is primarily so that Buffy can look at her Slayer supplies and tell her reflection quietly that she already has a job, it's still a fact that Joyce has a job and implicitly considers it to be a source of a lot of pressure (despite Witch, for example, making it clear that Joyce remembers being a teenager was itself pretty stressful).

So I think it's actually pretty unsurprising that Buffy doesn't have much money after coming back to life. Even ignoring the fact that Flooded tells us Joyce's hospital bills ate up most her life insurance, I just don't think Joyce would have much to give her. I doubt Joyce owned the building the gallery was in, so she's probably renting that for a start (on top of the mortgage on the house), plus whatever she was paying Carol, the cost of acquiring and returning exhibits, the cost of any shows they had to cancel after Joyce's death when the gallery presumably shut down for good... Joyce was a self-employed middle-aged woman who probably hadn't really thought about her health much because she started getting headaches. She probably didn't have much in the way of untapped savings to fallback on: why else would she be so quick to rush back to work after she seemed to recover from her tumour? (She admits to Buffy when talking about Brian that she hadn't had time to get back up to speed on what her assistant had been doing while she was away.)

The Summers family were always certainly middle-class coded (unlike, say, Xander or Faith) and they had a comfortable lifestyle and a surprisingly large house (although, again, as with Buffy's many outfits, I think we can perhaps imagine that the "real" house isn't quite so spacious), but the idea that things were actually somewhat precarious was always there, bubbling under the surface. It just wasn't Buffy's problem when her mom was around.

[arch-official]

once cybernetics and androids and shit become cheap enough for the average person to buy/make the amount of debates over which software is best for your robot gf or robot arm or whatever is going to increase exponentially.

we're still having debates over whether or not systemd or runit is better or how whether or not btrfs is better than ext4, imagine what it's going to be like when have debates over whether armProtocall3 or movArm is the better system for controlling what your hands are doing

[cloudy-caspirations]

Tuesday • February 4, 2025

Pictured here we have a responsible electrical engineering student double-checking her circuit’s functionality before her digital logic lab using simulation software rather than going in blind and praying that it works correctly. Not pictured however is that same circuit approximately 4-5 hours later in said lab, smoke visibly coming from the breadboard and a pile of burnt components laying abandoned on the workbench as my lab partner frantically apologizes for turning the input voltage up to 7V.

Yeah, Friday’s lab got a little hectic to say the least. It was fun though! I spent a long time prepping for the lab and even pre-built the circuit (XOR function made of 4 NAND gates) because I’m not as confident with digital logic as I was with circuit analysis, and I had no clue how to wire up logic gates. I’m glad I did all of that prep though because when disaster struck, I was ready. There wasn’t even anything wrong with the circuit itself, my design worked fine and both the XOR and NAND-equivalent portions were functional, but my breadboard was too stiff for my cheap jumper wires and my lab partner turned up the voltage when the LED’s flickered instead of adjusting the wires. Meanwhile, I left the bench to grab the lab professor to re-check my circuit, and I came back to $45+ worth of my own equipment completely burnt 🥲.

I was a little ticked off at my lab partner, especially because every EE student has to buy their own materials for labs short of power supplies and oscilloscopes and everything is expensive when you’re a broke college student, but it was an honest mistake (partially due to my own faulty wires at that) and I can just use his supplies for now while I’m working on replacing my own. I just hope we don’t have a repeat this Friday and break his equipment too, then we would just be screwed 😭.

[vintage-tech]

useful information: How to get a USB Blu-Ray player to work on your computer

Not a post about vintage technology, just an explanation of what you think might be simple to do but isn't: There are Blu-Ray players that plug into your computer by USB, and you discover that just plugging it in doesn't make it work* in the same manner that CD-RWs or DVD-RWs are automatically recognised and function. You will see "BR Drive" in My Computer and the name of whatever movie you have inserted, but that's as far as you're able to go.

*There is software you can buy to make a Blu-Ray (internal or external) function, sure, and if an internal came with your computer it's likely already installed -- but if you're like me you don't have that software, you're cheap and won't pay for software, and you want to use what you have installed already or find free solutions.

Looking in the Blu-Ray drive's package, there's not a lot of info about what you're supposed to do. The above no-name Blu-Ray player cost $40 from a popular website; name-brand ones can set you back $120 or so. Looking around online for those instructions, I never saw the whole set of directions in one place, I had to cobble them together from 2 or 3 sites. And so here I share that list. To keep out of trouble, I'm not linking any files -- Google will help you.

Get VLC, the free video player available for pretty much any operating system. Thing is, it doesn't come with the internals to make it work with Blu-Ray even if when you go to the Play Media menu there is a radio button for selecting Blu-Ray.

Get MakeMKV, a decoder for reading Blu-Ray disks. This had been totally free during the beta testing period but it's come out and has a month or two trial period you can work in.

Get Java if you don't already have it. Reason for this is, the menu systems on Blu-Ray disks uses this... technically it's not required, however it does mean you don't have options such as special features, language and sound changes, or scene selection if you don't have Java installed; insert a disk, it can only play the movie.

Get the file libaacs.dll online so you have AACS decoding. I am told it hasn't been updated in awhile so there may be disks produced after 2013 that won't work right, but you won't know until you try.

There's a set of keys you will also want to have so that the player knows how to work with specific disks, and so do a search online for the "FindVUK Online Database". There will be a regularly-updated keydb.cfg archive file on that page to pick up.

Got those three programs installed and the other two files obtained? Okay, here are your instructions for assembly...

In VLC: go to Tools, Prefs, click "show all"… under the Input/Codecs heading is Access Modules then Blu-Ray: Select your region, A through C. You can change this if you need to for foreign disks. Next related action: go to My Computer and C:, click into Program Files and VLC, and this is where you copy the libaacs.dll file to.

In MakeMKV: click View, then Preferences, and under Integration - add VLC.

Confirm that Java is set up to work with VLC by going to the computer's Control Panel, going to System Properties, and into Environment Variables. Click System Variables, and click New to create this key if it doesn't already exist: … Name: Java … Value: [the location of the Java 'jre#.##' folder... use Browse to find it in C:\Program Files\Java]

Let's go back into My Computer and C:, this time go to Program Data, and then do a right-click in the window and select New and Folder. Rename this folder "aacs" (without the quotes), and then you click into it and copy the keydb.cfg file here.

REBOOT.

And now you should be able to recognise Blu-Ray disks in your player and play them. Three troubleshooting notes to offer in VLC:

"Disk corrupt" -- this means MakeMKV has not decoded and parsed the disk yet, or that you don't have the libaacs.dll in place so that it can decode the disk. ...After checking the VLC folder for the DLL to make sure, launch MakeMKV, then go to File, Play Disk, and select the Blu-Ray drive. Now it will grind a bit and figure out the disk's contents.

A note appears when a movie starts saying there will be no menus, but the movie plays fine -- Java isn't running. ...Invoke Java by going to the Java Settings in Start: Programs. You don't have to change anything here, so Exit, then eject the disk and put it back in to see if the movie's menu now appears.

Buffering between chapters, making the movie pause for a few seconds? There is a setting for this but I need to find that info page again for where that is. (If you find it, tell me where it is!)

I don't claim to know a lot but if you have any questions I might have some answers or suggestions. So far I've watched "Office Space" and Disney's "Coco" without any issues beside occasional buffering.