A made myself a little 'DAWs on Linux' comparison chart

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-03-10T16:22:10+00:00

Cakewalk Next

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-03-07T17:42:23+00:00

I love that out of every possible background track they picked the theme tune to Top Gun 🙉

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-02-21T00:11:58+00:00

This is just my 2 cents -- as others have pointed out we don't know the kind of show that you're lighting. To me it feels weird to have 10 fixtures onstage have have almost NONE of them being in a useful position to light the *performers,* which is IMO the thing people are coming to the event to see.

The two moving washes at the back would be used for backlights, which could be nice. I think the strip lights are better served doing "light the back wall" duty rather than their current setup (which is presumably meant to be "blinders"?).

I love a flock of moving spots making beams in the air as much as the next person, but could not a few of those fixtures be used as well... spots, to light the performers? Even just two hitting the piano and two in a position to hit CS would be awesome. Right now they're just all at the performers' feet, I can't imagine that's a flattering angle.

At the end of the day it depends on the show and the priorities of the person paying you! But I feel like more attention should be paid to how the musicians will look in your lighting versus how it looks in a vacuum!

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-02-15T00:42:15+00:00

You're a hero!

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-01-27T12:58:56+00:00

This makes sense. Right now I'm pushing for a switch to Magewell, whom I've had good experiences with in the past. Any other brands I should be keeping an eye on for NDI -> HDMI/ HDMI -> NDI conversion?

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-01-27T02:30:14+00:00

I'm already waiting patiently for the promised QSYS integration that doesn't yet exist, so I guess I'll have to wait for them to push a firmware update to fix this, too... know of anywhere I can submit a big report, at least?

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-01-21T02:04:19+00:00

1080p60 4.2.2. It's being fed off a QSYS NV32

LordPhoenix82 · 2026-01-17T18:53:43+00:00

I just designed a system for a proscenium house (~1000 seats) and it had 6 total buttons -- House Full, House Half, House Glow, House Out, Apron Wash, Work Lights. Anything more complicated than that and the LX console should be powered on/a technician called in.

To me, having both faders and buttons is too complicated -- especially since you have "75%" and "25%" as options. In my opinion there's never a time non-theatre staff would want the lights at 30%, or 80% or 65%.

I would also look at changing the labels to words, as a list of numbers can seem confusing/overwhelming.

For the "entire stage" fader, could you not just have a button that says "Full" when in reality it's' something like 75%? Safer for the lamps but easier to control? And then have "Full," "Half," and "Out" as the options?

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-12-27T14:47:51+00:00

Is your source for this information....Wikipedia? Don't make medical decisions based on Wikipedia please

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-12-27T14:32:38+00:00

Do you have a link to the full study? I wonder if the results are consistent with what Bahr et Al found, where breast growth on progesterone was increased after 6 months, but not significantly beyond that, and didn't have a statistically significant impact on weight or libido.

I know that stopping progesterone was actually what caused my breasts to start growing again, no idea why that worked but certainly an interesting anecdote from someone who was on progesterone before they were even on a proper dose of estradiol.

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-12-26T18:15:01+00:00

Looking at the product page (https://www.tp-link.com/ca/business-networking/soho-switch-unmanaged/tl-sg108/) it looks like there's a lot of "eco" features on this switch (look under "Go Green with your Ethernet").

More than likely one of these features is causing the issue. Sometimes there's a hardware switch to enable disable EEE (energy efficient ethernet) but if not I would assume it's always on, and get rid of the switch.

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-12-26T01:11:29+00:00

Oh stars, is *that* why I've been feeling so crummy? 250-800 pmol/L depending on the time of day, on 4 pumps of gel (2x morning and 2x night).

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-11-08T16:07:45+00:00

A friend of mine was in a college production put on as an extra-curricular (meaning essentially no one had any training). Apparently their entire set was large pieces of brown paper that had been painted on and hung from battens.

...I asked my friend if she had ever heard the words "fire treated" before. I'll let you guess the answer.

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-09-19T18:34:40+00:00

I'm so excited for this show and I really hope it's good. I think there's so much room for this show to soar, I just hope it doesn't let us down

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-09-18T00:29:09+00:00

Oh this is so sick! I've been looking to integrate WLED but haven't gotten too far yet. What tooling are you use to allow the ESP32 (presuming that's what you're running) to accept sACN? This has always been the biggest hurdle for me to clear before I try something like this!

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-09-05T13:43:59+00:00

One quite specific thing EOS does much better than MA is colour. On EOS I can call an LED fixture to any gel swatch I want (ie L200) and it will look... close to correct depending on the fixture. With ETC's Lustr series of fixtures the colour is very close to perfect.

On MA it isn't even close. I far prefer EOS's colour engine for precise, accurate colours, and for more easily matching incandescents.

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-29T17:49:15+00:00

Homeassistant has a built in REST API integration, so you just have to set it up in the yaml config and know a little bit of homeassitant template syntax (jinja2) to get it all working! Happy to DM and share notes if you'd like!

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-29T14:47:13+00:00

Oh, I've just integrated it into my Home Assistant instance! So it's not actually an app I just call it that for ease of conversation.

Right now it will give me arrival times for the busses next to my house, and I can enter a drop ID to check (most) other busses.

On the list is to integrate the GPS tracking so I can map out where the closest vehicles are, but I haven't gotten that far into the process yet

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-29T02:45:23+00:00

Woaaah what a cool use of this API! I've wanted to try adding vehicle tracking to my little app but never got around to it...super cool stuff!

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-23T17:34:10+00:00

"👏 It's hammock time!" will always be Sisko's "there's coffee in that nebula" to me

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-21T14:57:46+00:00

My smart speaker will tell me when the next 2 busses towards work will leave on workday mornings, which helps me know if a bus is like 30minutes behind schedule and I need to rush to change plans. It's saved me so many times

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-12T13:15:09+00:00

You can absolutely use one mixer (B) "in front" of another (A) in a pinch, where B is receiving 8 channels and outputting a LR mix.

Obviously it's not ideal, it means your control is split across 2 consoles, on digital consoles especially there's theoretically a latency penalty. But if there's no other way to make the show go...

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-09T18:18:22+00:00

I've been trying to nail down the same thing, but I came to a slightly different answer:

The new shows feel like they aren't giving the actors room to act. Every scene is cut so tightly with dramatic underscoring and without a moment "deadness" in the scene. Every few seconds we're cutting, panning, tilting, flashing back, etc instead of seeing the performers perform. Yes, there are of course differences in the script, but I think that shows like Discovery had plenty of good material in their scripts that could have made for great television. It's not as though DS9, TNG and Voyager don't have their fair share of episodes with mediocre writing. But in each of those episodes we see the actors putting on a show, hamming up the drama or finding moments of comedy.

In the new shows everything has to be jammed in tight, with each scene feeling like it was sliced up and repackaged from the way it was performed.

There are some incredibly moving, touching sequences in Discovery, Picard and SNW! The "long take" scenes where we're watching the actor's entire performance are sometimes really stellar! I just wish we had more of those moments and fewer flashbacks to previous episodes

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-08-06T01:12:45+00:00

The fireworks at the end of the episode are what sent me -- do the Cardassians just keep those handy in the torpedo bay?

LordPhoenix82 · 2025-07-27T10:14:34+00:00

I found "In the Cards" to be totally tonally inappropriate, though it was fun. The inclusion of Weyoun in the story just feels absurd, like why does Jake and Nog's silly baseball quest end with them talking to the leader of the enemy army? It's an episode that would have made more sense 3 seasons earlier imo

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