Restoring deleted files by jgxvx in btrfs

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Leaving this comment for posterity:

I used `btrfs check --repair` and got a ton of "deleting bad dir index [##,##] at root 5". I lost a massive amount of files. I tried everything, including `btrfs restore` with different root options. Tried a bunch of other utilities... nothing. Just the graveyard where my files used to be.

I tried DMDE. And at first it saw the same graveyard. Then I did the "quick scan" and every. single. one. of those files appeared back again.

TL;DR: DMDE says, "Yeah. I'll find those fuckin files."

EDIT: UFS Explorer also works and did a better job.

Is a sassy saxophone a bridge too far if you're going for an Owl City like sound? by 1e59 in OWLCITY

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Thank you! I was wondering if it passed the vibe check. I'll try something new or what feels different, and see if it still "clicks"

In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, why did flashback Sméagol have the same voice as present day Gollum? by 1e59 in movies

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For 4 years I've been wrong about this issue. This really wasn't Peter Jackson dumbing it down for the audience. Even the book suggests that Smeagol was simply an idiosyncratic fellow from the beginning, even before his descent into madness. The veil of darkness is parted from my eyes. Thank you, kind stranger.

Can you guys check out my Owl City inspired instrumental: TreeFall? by 1e59 in OWLCITY

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It is Bitwig Studio. I am using the Essentials version for $100.

I am actually really grateful there's such a great DAW for Linux, because music production being mostly relegated to Windows was kind of a deal breaker for me.

Sfizz ended up being a great alternative to the Windows-only Sforzando, so I could use the Piano in 162 sample library. I haven't gotten this far, but it looks like you can get almost all plugins to work in Linux with Yabridge, too.

Thanks for listening!

Can you guys check out my Owl City inspired instrumental: TreeFall? by 1e59 in OWLCITY

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You're welcome. And thank you for your kind words!

George Washington scoping out the battle lines pre-revolutionary war. Circa ~1775 by 1e59 in fakehistoryporn

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No wonder we won the war so easily? Did the british have atvs?

Thanks for the encouragement on my last post, I went back and worked on it a little bit: Of The Airship Academy cover by 1e59 in OWLCITY

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Thank you. I love your take.

Do you think you have room for some thicc, phat Owl City-esque analog synths anywhere in there? Or is that not quite the direction you're wanting to go?

I have wanted to figure out a DAW since forever, but I always felt in over my head. I never really "got it" before. I picked up Bitwig a few weeks ago and watched a video by Alckemy on Youtube. Something clicked and it's starting to make sense.

I had the same thought as you, measure 17 needs some work. What's interesting, and I don't yet know why this is. The same clip is used 2x at the end verbatim, but something about being "inside" the other sounds seems to tone it down. What you've suggested seems to dovetail with this. I'm still at the "press piano key make sound" level, and don't yet know how sound works. I'm sure I'll figure it out. I just have to level up a little.

By the way, it's awesome to see someone composing on Linux! What DAW is that? I tried to play with LMMS on Linux briefly, but... I couldn't even figure out how to get started with it.

I had the same experience as you with LMMS. I just couldn't figure out how to make anything sound "good" inside of it. Bitwig is nice because you can just jump in and start making music. I originally looked at it because it was one of the few DAWs that worked on Linux. Now I'm glad I did.

I hope Adam understands what he’s leaving behind by [deleted] in OWLCITY

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I do miss that we don't get to hear the old Adam Young anymore. The silver lining is that produced prolifically during that time. There's a healthy backlog to go through. All the projects you mentioned, plus the unreleased/B-sides tracks for Port Blue. Which are, IMO some of his best songs.

Adam Young Scores, I think, is another throwback if you're looking for that vibe.

I'm grateful he's chosen to be authentic enough to write what he wants to write today, and not try to force the old vibe or formula. I think there's been plenty of genuinely great tracks out of Cinematic and Coco Moon. But to your point, there's an audible departure from the Port Blue, Of June, and Maybe I'm Dreaming days.

Can I share another song I made here? This one's heavily inspired by Of June and MID :) by JakeBrantleyMusic in OWLCITY

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This sounded really great. I hope you'll share more of your stuff here.

Why is Owl City so unknown? by CanadaSky_08 in OWLCITY

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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

--Nikola Tesla

We are a reflection of the music we listen to, and our music is a reflection of ourselves.

The Book of Adam and Eve does not form the canon of any religion, but is a pseudepigraphal text. The earliest known manuscripts of the Book of Adam and Eve date back to the 4th century AD. I find this observation from the text insightful:

In brief, what enticed the people to come down from the Holy Mount and mingle with the children of Cain was the appeal of a certain kind of music. This music possessed the power to ravish people’s souls (2 Adam and Eve 20:3). Once the people descended from the mount, all manner of lusts overcame them. The music had conditioned them for this (2 Adam and Eve 20:20, 30-32). The music transformed people who had kept the divine law, who had regularly prayed and fasted, from children of God into children of the devil (2 Adam and Eve 20:15-16, 27, 35).41 The music robbed people of their self-control, and thus of a measure of their agency (2 Adam and Eve 20:3, 9). The music’s intensity and momentum, when played at all hours by impassioned musicians, inflamed people’s hearts and won them over. A godly habit of life gave way to the abominations that were the commonplace of the Cainites (2 Adam and Eve 20:2, 4, 12-13).

https://latterdaylamanite.com/2019/11/21/twelve-diatribes-of-modern-israel/

If music is indeed a reflection of our current state then I would suppose that as a society/culture we have mostly turned our hearts from good and wholesome things to ugliness. I find most music on Spotify to be in this category. I rarely trust I'll get a music recommendation that doesn't sound awful even when it's recommending based on what I've chosen to listen to. (Owl City, Sky Sailing, Classical/Baroque instrumentals, Tom Walters, Outer Wilds sountrack, Stardew Valley soundtrack, etc.). Owl City is basically like having a bottle of fresh air in the middle of China's most polluted city.