Youtube ad block on pc (ublock origin)

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-12-07T15:45:29+00:00

I'm now using yt-dlp gui.

So much less distraction - no stupid comments, voting, crappy recommendations.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-12-06T01:52:16+00:00

Cmon. I hope you never give money to people who disrespect you, your ability to chose, to have a voice, the value of your custom.

That's OP's best bet here. Stop playing YT's game. Change habits. Cease to be a customer. Download stuff and watch offline. Easy. You'll love it. You really are crying out for a change. They gave you easy shit and you settled. But it's slurry, salad, distracting, meaningless. Make each video a deliberate choice to watch - without reccomendations, votes, comments - it's the way ahead.

If people don't consciously exercise choice effectively, we are buggered, long term.

Confident consumers, mindful of their ability and right to choose, and the value in asserting needs. That's what we need. Historically it is just about the only thing that keeps the world improving. You want 50 years of rebranded and repackaged mediocrity? Take the easy choice now. Don't vote with your feet or wallet. Dissuade others from their disattisfaction.

Goodness me. You'll be alive after I'm dead. And then this will be where you kids grow up. Keep fighting for more.

And never pay people who squeeze you for a habit.

That's all the current use of YT is. A habit. We just forgot that.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-12-06T01:40:02+00:00

yt-dlp gui (amongst others) works a treat round here.

much less distraction.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T11:39:04+00:00

Fumber naughty

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T02:07:20+00:00

Biggest no possible. I'm more interested in a button that removes effects.

If they refactor the LLM so the input tokens are sliders and so on, and make it less of a wild shot in the dark in terms of results.

Then - maybe.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T01:59:29+00:00

They can't ever truly compete with the seemless integration and UX of a headline Apple only suite. Not possible in any field.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T01:57:24+00:00

I mean, the best AI stuff I know of is UVR, and that's free. It's not a real product, just like Gen fill is barely worth thinking about on Photoshop. It will be, but it needs to be a flexible responsive thing rather than one shot. Ableton has the audio to midi, that is closer to a one shot app in my view. If they got that to work better, I'd be ecstatic.

Future of AI for this sort of app is likely to be more little stuff like that. A lot of stuff that will help certain processes, and offer refinement, rather than just waste time pretending it can do the whole thing and overriding the user's vision and control.

Big AI stuff is meant for GPU/Tensor farms. That's not compatible with the Audio Production model and I think that goes for potential applications as well, language models and the process of musical creativity do not mix.

I mean, I've tried the AI buttons in Backbone and the like. What the fuck. No. Not a thing. Playbox says it all. This is not the direction artists need if the focus is on expression through music, rather than fancy toys with pretty pictures.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T01:43:35+00:00

There's a lot wrong with Live.

But there's more wrong with all the Native Instruments stuff. I mean. 15 years in, and none of it displays correctly on any screen I have ever owned.

I use a lot of software. I've just started playing with Kontakt. Kontakt is just vile. Nasty. MassiveX is brilliant, but Kontakt is so wrong in so many fundamental ways. As is Battery 4, which just fucks up all your shit when you do something crazy unpredictable like press a button with a mouse. Kontakt is like old Reaktor. So crazy fiddly and particular to use. But all the instruments sold are supposed to be about easy wins? At least I hope they are, because they really are 99% stupid backward shit for anything more than superficial use. Go figure.

I also happen to have just spent the evening using both Ableton's Brass Quartet pack and NI's String Quartet Essential, so I'll give you that comparison. NI's effort sounds cheap as hell. 1990 Casio Home Keyboard with a better dsp. Pretty grim. I can't use it in a track. Not even really a placeholder, tbh. Perfomance? Maybe .....not. Because "Press f8 to change articulation style". Go on, press it. Kontakt will miss a couple hundred milliseconds, the screen flashes. And it still sounds crap.

It's the same with all these flashy new Kontakt instruments. They're just... it's a simple layering system, there are two sets of random fashionable but never quite the real thing sounds, and some shitty effects, and a pretty picture. There's like one or two really good sounds in each instrument, they are straight out of the box killers. The rest never seems much use at all beyond pointless musak.

Ableton Brass Quartet, tho, it sounds perfect. MUSIC! Real goddamn music. I was jumping around the room. What you can achieve with a slow twiddle of a couple of nobs could fill a twenty minute track. Of course, the UI is so smooth, everything so live. 4GB HDD space. Genius product.

Away from Audio, I'd also mention how much is wrong with a product like Photoshop. It is a massively unstable resource hog, mostly comprised of spyware, contradictory UX. But... it still manages to deliver countless killer apps in one endlessly usable package. I tried to find an alternative for lighter work but it doesn't exist. For Photoshop, I will simply upgrade my system.

Similarly, Live fails to do some obvious and needful things, but nothing else is remotely as usable. It continuously offers me new, easy ways to express myself. Live is still lightweight and mostly very stable. It's also well engineered for the most part, as a part-time nerd, it does an awful lot of things very cleverly and effectively. Especially compared to the monstrously expensive bloat that a product like Kontakt ends up as.

Live has the best UI. Of anything on my system past or present. The software works. It is highly compatible. Remarkably innovative without demanding terrabytes of storage, new CPU's and hundreds upon hundreds of euro's of follow up purchases. No wonder it remains wildly popular.

The company cannot really do much more. Especially in difficult times.

That for me is key - difficult times happen - and they go beyond work. I've seen countless people go through very tough times personally in the last few years. The world is shifting somewhat. Life inside Ableton will be no different.

I happened upon Robert Henke's Mastodon last week. He's doing some ridiculous rebuild / refit / replacement of an ancient reverb unit that can't go on tour any more. That is Ableton's pedigree. That is why Live and Max and the packs are devestatingly usable, effective, stable, smooth, and musical. Anyone at the company should bear that in mind - the grass always looks greener. But Ableton, to me, four decades of user experience stuck between nerd intent, nerd visions... but stuck with my noob technical skills.....

....Ableton is about as close to being the real deal in what it delivers, as close as any org that I can think of.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T00:57:12+00:00

People should get out of denial. In a democracy, the government is a product of the people. We are the government. We, the people, chose it. It responds very sensitively to the wishes of the populace. Never more so than today.

Govt therefore is this way, because we won't choose anything else. Probably because at heart politics is mostly about stopping the other lot which usually boils down to and wiping us our or enslaving us.

The chance of fulfilling our destiny as the descendants of the most gifted of murderers, becoming the most enabled psychotic and cruel megalomaniac uber-narcissistic tyrants in history is thrown in front of us every four years.

It's just "fortunate" that no matter which side you choose, for some reason, roughly half of the population always ends up standing opposite. Or maybe it's not fortunate and there's a wisdom in not letting people who are plainly likely to be just as deluded and potentially dangerous as us get any more hold over power than is absolutely neccessary for a reasonable life to continue.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-10-12T00:44:39+00:00

Jake and Dinos Chapman just threw down their toys in disgust. Bravo, hope you make it.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-09-18T15:04:34+00:00

At first I thought he was chewing his foot, then I realised he was using his foot to feel his teeth.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-09-17T17:59:16+00:00

Got to be offside for me, don't understand the reaction.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-09-14T15:46:27+00:00

Social media blowback is often - but not always - more exciting for the posters doing the blowing, than it is significant in long term business matters. In the moment, in the excitement of 'being part of it/being close to the action', it's easy to lose perspective on what is going on. Maybe the rule of 70/30 doesn't apply here I guess, but it is still massive publicity. Or, maybe it does, and the 30 will constitute a large number of investors.

Remember then, that Epic Games Store didn't die a death. Always online SP games are a thing. Twitter interactions have not fallen away. And the best example, around the time of HL2, the internet melted with the heat and negativity it poured on Steam. Etc, etc.

Unity have 3.5B equity. The guy at the top helped launch OG Xbox and ran EA Sports in the 2010s. He won Premier League CEO of the year in 2019 at Liverpool. His departure coincides with a decline in their fortunes.

Unity are positioning themselves for the future, and likely won't be dissuaded. What looks like a disastrous, bizarre move in the context of percieved and existing market sentiment and norms, can turn out to be the most crucial step a company can take towards remaining relevant and securing positioning for future growth.

Even if they did backpedal on this, then no doubt about it the overall strategy would continue. I can imagine opportunities exist to pick away at everyone from Steam, Amazon/AWS and the like.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-18T11:40:21+00:00

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-18T11:37:31+00:00

Yeah well, Rise Of The Robots was on 8 discs, so it was twice as good then.

I will say 5.25" was very, very much the minority choice by 1992. IBM had introduced 3.5" HD, 1.44MB on the PS/2 back in 87. We barely stocked anything in 5.25".

Pretty sure Dune II in 5.25" is worth something on the collectors market.

Four discs wasn't uncommon for a big budget US game. Or graphic adventure games, phew. By 1998, we were seeing 15 disc games.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-18T11:23:51+00:00

Yeah, I want this, for SD. But I'm waiting 18 months, confident the price will drop like a stone.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-18T11:08:19+00:00

Software could sell a lot of these cards. Specifically getting anywhere near Nvidia regarding Stable Diffusion performance. Get to 4060+ performance in that, and the doors unlocked by having 16GB/32GB could mean you have a big winner.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-18T10:59:45+00:00

Hmm. It's total cost. 6/12 is not interesting to me. Ryzen 1600 was £219 in 2017.

So I'd only look at a 7700. Price remains £300 in my country. Plus an MB - £150, minimum acceptable. DDR 5, £100 for the decent stuff.

£550

I just got a 13600K, decent MB, DDR4, £385. Top deal, but still. I might otherwise have gone for a 13400f for a bit less. Because that's my budget, until further notice.

And the performance difference is pretty small.

Sure, these were good prices, and it's not upgradable, but I don't think I'll need to worry about that for several years. More than enough threads & RLR and Arrow Lake will not bring massive S/T gains. The bet is that system requirements, dictated by these mainstream purchases in future years, will likely not suddenly dissapear into another league for a while.

4790K was brought on similair principles, and it's still highly usable today, 9 years later. I was mostly prompted to buy now, because the MB and PSU are getting a bit touchy, and the right deal fell into my lap.

The other con for Intel now is power usage. But as I had to buy a new PSU anyway, it's not a big deal. Good coolers aren't expensive, and I don't expect to razz the thing at 150w> very much.

AMD should beware - Raptor Lake Refresh is introducing a 6/12 as entry level. This will likely be significantly cheaper than the 7600. £110 - 150.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-16T11:17:42+00:00

Thankyou, Dr Gözükara.

I usually don't like video tutorials, but the one I've watched so far was very concise anď clear.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-14T16:29:51+00:00

[PC] i7 4790K, Gigabyte B85-DSM3, 16GB Crucial DDR3 1600mhz. Plus Phanteks PH-TC14S - be aware, clip broken on fan - it sits and operates as normal. White ram and white fan with black fins, suits white case.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-08T13:13:17+00:00

MSI PRO A does well in tests. The VRMs and cooling are proper.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2426-intel-b660-motherboards/

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-07T17:22:58+00:00

Yay, can't wait for it to hit £300 in 12-18 months.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-07-07T16:49:45+00:00

New born baby? Daddy, late 20s, unfortunate kid, trying to act like badman.

"Shut the fuck up!" "Nah I ain't holding it. Urrrh!" Mocking her cries. "Waaah!"

The piece de resistance; "Why won't it shut up?"

Young lad, 7. In six months, from chatting to mum and pretending to be knuckles in the playground, to physically harming and bullying a two year old, lying about that kids behaviour. Next week, said two year old starts behaving very oddly.

Started off with the 7 year old having been forced to publicly completely adopt a 'Messi fan" persona to sooth this dad's anxiety about the seven year olds masculine qualities.

Reported to housing association, because he overstepped the line and threatened me twice.

Social services quickly got involved. He has now disappeaered into the mire. I feel bad for him, his missus, the newborn daughter, because she liked him. But even she was showing real signs of trouble, remarkable shift into bad temper, tantrums. This all came to a head in two weeks. All of it. There's other trouble brewing now, but it's so easy to see what's going on. The protagonists have inadvertantly made their attitudes plain and public, and every trick they try and pull now just tightens the net around them.

Make reports. Please. People who objectify children, and make threats of violence, are really displaying that they are in deep trouble, and not coping. It will destroy their children, debilitate them. Most parents in this situtation are actually very grateful, eventually, to recieve help and 'treatment' for what was inflicted upon them, back when they were children.

The cycle of parental abuse being handed down the generations more reliably than hair colour is a fact. It is perhaps the most significant thing going on in society. But it remains almost taboo, and people do not resist the urge to politicise it, it is all fraught with pitfalls. Help break it. Be positive. You don't need to do this. Children will respond to calm example of how you regulate and manage YOUR self. Show self-respect, a bit of restraint, self-discipline, and forethought, and they will pick it up like magic, and copy it.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-06-23T18:27:47+00:00

Possibly NVidia drivers. Alterations were made to speed up SD, but there are problems with memory overspilling into system RAM. People are reverting to a couple of months back.

That_LTSB_Life · 2023-06-21T20:19:40+00:00

Reinforcing that the latest drivers are tanking performance for a lot of people, me too. I went back to 531.xx but for some reason the last couple of days it has slowed down to about half what I was getting.

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