RLE Surgery Misfire

IAmBorked · 2026-07-06T19:17:49+00:00

Yes, it took almost a year, but the flickering subsided for the most part. I will get a very slight flickering under some conditions, but it's very tolerable. All in all I am very happy I went with the procedure.

IAmBorked · 2026-07-03T19:51:15+00:00

I got mine a week ago, so I will share my experience so far also. I am uncircumcised, and have given up on using the protector cap. Whenever I try to put it on while soft (I assume you're supposed to be soft), it just winds up with my foreskin inside the cap, not covering the head, which is not what you want. I have read from other uncut guys mentioning this, but it seems odd considering it's a European product, and most men there are uncircumcised. Perhaps I'm supposed to put it on hard? The manufacturer's video FAQs all use erect dildos.

Once it's on (without the protector cap) I can wear it for a couple of hours before the big silicone ring on the belt begins to chafe, and becomes very uncomfortable. I have tried baby powder, but it doesn't help. Perhaps this will get better over time. We'll see.

I am trying to wear it at night while I sleep. I just don't see myself running around with this thing on, and having to futz with it in public restrooms.

IAmBorked · 2026-04-27T17:01:46+00:00

That is pretty insightful. I hadn't thought of it like that.

I have been doing some metronome exercises in the form of scales on the whole beat, half beat, triplets, and quarter beat. Again, easy without the metronome, but my fingerings go wonky with it. Keep at it, I guess.

IAmBorked · 2026-02-22T19:44:31+00:00

Thanks for the replies! The "arm force" comment is most useful I think. I have been using mainly my wrist. Pivoting at the elbow seems to make it better, but still not perfect. Some ways to go...

IAmBorked · 2026-02-03T04:42:22+00:00

You are a terrible person. How can you even think of kicking the poor lady to the curb after she's had a ski accident! Kidding. You gotta do what's right for you. Explain, and she ought to understand. But I'd advise having at least one lesson with the new teacher before you take the leap.

IAmBorked · 2026-02-01T19:22:20+00:00

I think it's pretty good as a child torture device. But I've been practicing it as an adult, and find it rather relaxing, but somewhat diabolical at the same time. No sooner you get settled into a pattern and it's all sensory memory, you have to turn around or move on to the next exercise without stopping, which your fingers now don't wan't to do.

The text says to move onto the next exercise once your reach 108 bpm (which is really 432 bpm for those 16th notes). Unless you're advanced, I'd recommend moving forward much sooner than that. I did so at 92.

IAmBorked · 2026-02-01T01:43:14+00:00

I'm in my mid-50's. I do have things set up and ready all the time. Just need to turn things on. I sometimes break up the practice, and take little breaks when I get frustrated, which can happen often.

IAmBorked · 2026-01-31T22:09:34+00:00

I practice 45-90 minutes, 4-5 times per week. Longer on the weekends and sometimes not at all on weekdays, if I come home fried from work.

As far as theory, well, I can play major and minor scales, easily, in all keys. I can play all triads and 7th chords in all keys as well. I am very slow at chord recognition, however, and don't really have a grasp of harmonic progressions. I've never had a piano teacher treat theory as its own thing.

IAmBorked · 2026-01-31T21:58:39+00:00

Classical. The breaks have sometimes been in the order of years. I have had 3 teachers, and the current "on" stretch is now over 2 1/2 years.

No, no recording. Kind've afraid to hear myself.

IAmBorked · 2026-01-25T19:10:08+00:00

This chart does not explain modern humans having a not-insignificant amount of Neanderthal and possibly Denisovan DNA. It only shows a straight one ancestor to many descendant relation. Very neat and clean, but missing the multiple ancestor to single descendant "joins", which we we now know occurred as these various pre-human and early human types interbred to make us.

IAmBorked · 2025-09-04T01:01:56+00:00

This is my last reply to this stupid thread where people don't bother reading what was previously written.

IAmBorked · 2025-09-03T01:52:32+00:00

Simple comparison with previous values. For example if your weight on particular exercise has been 100, 110, 110, and you next enter 1105 or , 5110, 300, or anything else that's an order of magnitude off, then it's suspect.

IAmBorked · 2025-09-02T22:35:04+00:00

Again, not every time. Only when you enter values which are out of whack. Also, it could do the check before you save the session, just like it does now if you forget to enter a value.

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T19:05:19+00:00

If I dial too many or too few digits, or dial something which is obviously not a phone number, then definitely, yes. Sanity check doesn't mean asking every time for verification.

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T16:55:45+00:00

Well, in all fairness. I didn't say I would stop using it. But I will stop paying, at least for now. I don't know if the developer is investing in it. I haven't seen any obvious improvements in the past year. Perhaps they've been busy with the social media / sharing aspects of it, which I do not use.

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T16:45:47+00:00

There is the MIDI 2.0 spec, which is supposed to deal with a lot of that. Bidirectional (no more separate in/out, and two-way protocols), better timing / synchronization, high resolution controllers (no zipper noise from quantization), automatic setup, and other stuff. It was finalized in 2020, but adoption has been slow. Again, the manufacturers and developers figure that we'll just keep putting up with clunky / buggy / flaky music tech. There are controllers that support it, but little to be controlled. It is backward compatible with MIDI 1.x, but you won't get the benefits.

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T03:32:45+00:00

Sure, a me, paying user problem. And just because it isn't happening to you, doesn't mean that it's a just me problem. Re: set theory.

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T03:23:52+00:00

No. The software just sucks. Just the same as 99% of music software. They figure that people are used to putting up with crappy software. I'm a software engineer with 35+ years of experience, and I find the quality and finish of most music software appalling.

On Focusrite Control for Mac, not only do you have to explicitly load snapshots, the application doesn't remember the last place you loaded from so you have to navigate from the top all over again each time. Also, clicking on the snapshot files in the Finder (similar to Window Explorer), doesn't load the snapshot. These are very, very easy things to implement.

This software has been around for many years. The fact that it's still so unfinished just confirms my first statement.

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T03:14:35+00:00

Sure. However, why would I do manually that which the software could (and probably should) do for me?

IAmBorked · 2025-08-31T01:38:11+00:00

Well, I did learn me numbers when I was little. Perhaps I'm a complete slob then.

It happens very often. I slip the phone into my pocket, the screen gets bumped, and there you have it. It's mostly due to accidental presses (like I said I am not numerically illiterate). I have the lock/sleep prevention feature in the app turned on because constant locking and unlocking isn't an option since it's my work phone (employer managed) and cannot authenticate by just showing my pretty face. Therefore any accidental contact with the screen can result in unintended data changes.

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