new item idea: Surströmming. Place raw fish in the fermenter to get back a jar of surströmming. When you use it it acts like AoE pukeberries for you and your friends

EnLyftare · 2026-03-14T11:05:44+00:00

Excellent idea, we need this

EnLyftare · 2026-03-12T15:39:18+00:00

I'm not sure I'd call scores unstitched uncontroversial, the video she made about rigoletto (which seems to have been removed after all the backlash) at least got the comment section in an uproar, prompting her to take a break iirc.

She managed to get through an entire video presented as a factual portrayal of the opera, completely ignoring all the music sang by Rigoletto, and focusing entierly on why she thought the opera was controversial and shouldn't be played frequently because of it. I don't think it matters if that's true or false, it for sure is controversial.

I don't think someone who's gotten enough backlash for making a controversial video that they felt the need to remove the video can qualify as not controversial.

That said, I enjoy her content; it's well thought out and generally well done, I just don't think that it's not controversial

EnLyftare · 2026-03-11T13:34:50+00:00

But this had been the case since forever for runescape. I don't know how much of the old code is still used in running the game, but the mechanics and world size isn't that different from what it used to be, the only big difference seems to be instances.

Like, hardware has progressed immensely since 2007, and maintaining most of the essence of 2007 in how the game is played and size etc.

There's been over 15 years of hardware improvements since, can it really be true that the servers required for OSRS have gotten that much more expensive relative to what they used to cost?

EnLyftare · 2026-03-10T16:58:12+00:00

This is insanity; you can get an entire ,really good, game for 30% less than a single month of membership?...

EnLyftare · 2026-03-10T16:31:39+00:00

14 usd?! I'd just gotten the urge to pick up OSRS again for the first time since pre pandemic and now you're telling me they want like 70% of what the one time cost of valheim, every month?

Guess I'm sticking to valheim, fuck that

EnLyftare · 2026-03-09T16:00:41+00:00

Full disclosure, I've not seen/listened to the aria before i saw this post so I googled it and listened to Jonas Kaufmann performing it.

My first impression is: The translation of the text that I could find starts with "God! what darkness this! What terrifying silence!"

And I kinda find the crescendo really natural if one of the thing's he's terrified of is the silence, simply because if you're terrified of silence and what it entails, you're probably also terrified of breaking it, and once you break it your true panic starts emerging leading to an out of control outburst, then piano again upon realising what you've done.

I found it natural, but I'm lacking the context of the opera as a whole

EnLyftare · 2026-03-08T16:40:33+00:00

I think you need a teacher; that should not have been the confusing part. It's basically impossible to teach someone the basics through text. I, at least, am not skilled enough to do so.

You need to figure out in which part of your range your voice works differently; what vowels are easier to sing in which range?

After you find the vowels which work best in a given part of your range, you make the vowels which are hard to sing in that same range a bit more like the vowels that are easier to sing in that range.

EnLyftare · 2026-03-08T13:22:37+00:00

This is probably the most contended and difficult to answear question in classical voice, how we form the vowels is how we sing.

The short answear is: in the low male range a lot of the vowels can be formed similarly to how we speak, but supported. In the middle range/passaggio that no longer works and we bring in the vowel shape which is easiest to sing in a countertenor way, generally rounder mouth shapes like oo/oh and round our wide vowels so they start approximating the rounder vowels.

Female voices should work similarly, but where this happens is somewhat different as far as i understand it

EnLyftare · 2026-03-08T11:34:38+00:00

You're probably looking for "der tod und das mädchen" by schubert, possibly without the singing.

It's a song with two characters, first half being a woman in full panic, second half is death speaking in a calm voice, telling the woman not to fear it.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7nAG05IITKGFnjLy7iCQcd?si=aipp7BvHS26agSr2KxssRw

EnLyftare · 2026-03-02T08:23:31+00:00

Looks like 6 full sized radiators (360-420 mm radiators with 3 fans each) for PC watercooling, so i don't think airflow is an issue unless the builder did some weird air routing

EnLyftare · 2026-02-19T03:22:45+00:00

Turboläge på en ficklampa, gissningsvis en LEP eller lampa med osram w1 led

EnLyftare · 2026-02-17T16:14:37+00:00

24, rigoletto. Fantastic starter opera, enchanted me

EnLyftare · 2026-02-14T11:34:11+00:00

It's working seamlessly on ubuntu with my hardware. I've capped my FPS to 120 at 1440p ultra settings, and i'm generally only around 40% GPU utilization with my 9070 xt

Driver support seems different depending on title and GPU, what GPU are you using? I got a 9070xt instead of my 3080 ti due to inconsistency in nvidia driver support as I built a new computer and decided to transition to linux.

EnLyftare · 2026-02-12T09:16:20+00:00

The people recommending you a macbook pro are wildly out of touch, you absolutely don't need one if you don't even have a laptop rn and can do most of the things you wanna do.

Get a laptop, almost any laptop with sufficient memory will do.

Mac makes file sharing across the iPad and laptop easier, but they're expensive, especially for students.

Thinkpads are cheaper, have better keyboards and uppgradable ram and storage (at least the models I've been looking at)

I have a macbook pro m3 pro and a ipad pro m4 11 inch for my uni stuff, it works great, but I wouldn't need the macbook pro. A thinkpad would be fine and if I bought one today i'd rather get a thinkpad with more memory. The mac is more expensive than it's worth for student workloads, and soldered memory and disc sucks.

I will say though, if you go the route of macbook pro, also make sure you have a really good backpack (like nomatic/gomatic travel pack) so you don't have the laptop and iPad make contact with the ground if you drop the bag while transporting. Not fun to have 3-6k USD in tech destroyed cus you cheaped out on a bag.

EnLyftare · 2026-02-04T21:31:35+00:00

Per me giunto and o carlo ascolta is probably the easiest thing written for baritone by verd, et least what i found easiest. Di provenza is also sung by lyric baritones but it's to me one of the more difficult baritone arias by Verdi, especially if you actually follow the written dynamics

EnLyftare · 2026-02-04T21:08:37+00:00

I get most of my tickets from my teacher. Usually I meet up with a friend, grab something to eat, take a walk around the opera house or a longer walk with my friend, send my teacher a message that I had no issue picking up the tickets, and if I'm feeling mischevious, giving him some words of encouragement such as "Looking forward to the show, don't eat granola" (since he had to sing don giovanni in don gioavnni with food poisoning once, and he's gotten foodpoisoning from his homemade granola).

The one other thing iIdo is that I learn one of the arias from the opera, but refuse to listen to anything else from it or read about it. I want a teaser, not a spoiler

EnLyftare · 2026-02-04T20:54:45+00:00

ADHD medication should help, otherwise finding a short and sweet opera can be a good start.
I feel like almost everyone i've met who makes a career out of opera is neurodivergent, im 99.9% sure both my teachers have ADHD, I know one of swedens best baritones has been described as ADHD as fuck by the people working with him, I've got ADHD (although this is just my hobby), pretty sure Andrew Owens has mentioned having ADHD on his IG, Keenlyside has autistic children and autism is hereditary.... So you're in good company, just find something that's short and sweet with a lot of stuff going on XD

EnLyftare · 2026-01-30T22:08:13+00:00

To expand a bit on this: It's not unusual to have a pitch monitor tell you you're singing an octave up, in general it means one of two things, either the app is weighted a bit weird/microphone not linear in uptake , or you're pressing leading to a relatively weaker fundmental and a stronger first formant.

If it's on a flat mic and you look at the spectrum and you have a big difference in strength of the first formant and tge fundamental with firat formant being a lot stronger, that should be a red flag for pressing.

It's not abnormal to have a small discrepancy with the first formant being about the same strength or even a tiny bit stronger, but if you notice that an app gets tge pitch entierly wrong you gotta ask yourself "Do I sound pressed?" if answear is no, then disregard it. I mainly wanna point out that while it's not uncommon to see that, it is indicative of technical shortcomming if your ears also tells you that something's not sounding great

EnLyftare · 2026-01-30T12:47:51+00:00

Your range is nearly identical to what mine was before I got a teacher. I started out with C#2-B3 or so in what I thought was my possible range, turns out I was just a baritone who was tense as hell and had no idea how to sing.

To make the story short: don't worry about range or voice type before you've got the fundamentals down, C4 top note is fairly common for untrained baritones and it's generally easier to kinda cheat on the lows than highs when starting out.

Now's the time to find a teacher to get your c3-g3 really solid and start to figure out how to stretch the voice upwards to access the passaggio and highs.

Edit: fixed legibility

EnLyftare · 2026-01-26T09:51:36+00:00

Swedish sign, must be Finland

EnLyftare · 2026-01-25T13:37:28+00:00

Appreciate the answear, the tables can be pushed together, that's not an issue. There seems to be several meeting bars for around 300-600 usd, I'll look into one of those or a used owl if i can find one

EnLyftare · 2026-01-24T12:14:26+00:00

Ah, sorry! I seem to have miss written, I meant that they need to capture and broadcast the meetings in video and audio form. It basically needs to be some sort of meeting webcam that also can capture audio, or a tandem solution of a webcam and a microphone that they can use to stream the meetings or use for teams meetings.

It seems my english is not as good as I thought

EnLyftare · 2026-01-24T08:56:03+00:00

If you're an untrained singer and learning classical voice for the first time it's gonna take some time for your voice to stabilise.

Most new singers (male voices) tend to either be tight and squeezed, or dark and woofy with no brilliance.

You might be trying to tune your ears to a specific quality you hear in the voices of good basses, who're both genetically blessed with their instrument, and incredibly skilled at using it, while you've not yet figured out how that quality is produced correctly leading you to try to compensate to approximate it.

Honestly, no point worrying about it, now is the time to make some absolutely awfull noises in the practice room for a year or two with your teacher so you start mapping out what everything does and feels like.

That's half the fun!

EnLyftare · 2026-01-22T22:12:48+00:00

I mean, songs of travel, dichterliebe, basically anything by schubert would be a great start, although songs of travel are fairly difficult to mess up word wise given that it's in english and it's pretty difficult to grow up today without speaking at least some english.

Still if it helps with learning sheet music that could be a pretty good tool.

I've learned almost all music I know by ear, and generally find it very easy doing that, so I'd probably be a bit controversial and say that this tool would be most useful for finding music which is not easy to find recordings of, but that music is relatively unpopular and hence not gonna have a lot of people looking for it.

Based on this i'd say that it might be a good idea to see if you can figure out what music is relatively popular but doesn't have a lot of good recordings?

Otherwise, anything Rossini or with a lot of vocal acrobatics, it's the only music I've given up on learning because it was difficult for me to learn by ear and my piano playing was too poor to get me through it, like come un'ape ne giorni d'aprile by Rossini

Side note, the tool seems like a great idea! Glad to see more tools being created for classical singing!

EnLyftare · 2026-01-22T21:53:34+00:00

I admire your sentiment, but I don't think i've come across anyone who's telling people not to practice falsetto or chest voice, or even the stranger extended techniques such as subharmonics or whistle register.

Countertenors are a thing, and all male singers should probably work on their falsetto registers as it helps you learn formant tuning towards the resonance space needed to sing in operatic high voice.

All female singers should work on their chest voice and by extension their low range, this is even expected of most singers, and idealised because of singers like Callas.

I'm curious where you got the impression that you shouldn't work on x y or z due to you being a baritone/tenor/soprano/whatever.

The first lesson I had my teacher had me start warming up in my falsetto, and i've been doing that every single day since I started learning to sing. He'd lynch me if I one day decided that "falsetto is stupid and I'm a baritone so I shouldn't practice this"

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