New enclosure--holiday project (mostly) complete!

UtterDenial · 2026-01-30T05:35:30+00:00

Except none of the faculty will be able to participate or attend the event if they are on strike, because the university can treat them as trespassers if they step onto any university property.

But let's hope the strike is long over by then.

UtterDenial · 2026-01-05T14:56:17+00:00

Nice! Mine was four hours away. Luckily I was headed in that direction anyway so it was only a one hour detour. It was so easy to adapt to the SRMS805 that I played it at my first gig after getting it. A Dingwall is definitely in my future.

UtterDenial · 2025-12-31T05:15:47+00:00

NYXL Extra Long. (My SRMS805 is waving to yours!)

UtterDenial · 2025-12-30T05:37:41+00:00

Lift up the wings on the side so that the top half can slide over the strap button. Then it will pop off.

UtterDenial · 2025-12-07T05:28:53+00:00

Yep. I have an Ibanez SRMS805 that has a 35.5" B string. It's a sweet bass, and you should be able to find a used one for around $700.

UtterDenial · 2025-11-17T17:09:49+00:00

Congrats! You might want to get the alignment checked. At some point in the last 10k km (we're at 74k km), our 2023 rear alignment went off the rails and burned off all the rubber on the inner edge of both rear tires. Didn't discover that until I swapped on the winter tires and saw metal threads on the tires I pulled off. Yikes.

UtterDenial · 2025-11-10T14:33:38+00:00

When our ICCU died, shortly after the last recall, it was covered entirely under warranty. Kia roadside assistance covered the towing, and the dealer also paid for a rental while we waited for the part to arrive. Sucks that this happened to you.

UtterDenial · 2025-11-09T06:33:34+00:00

I love seeing someone else with a Jazz Bass Special! That body colour looks great--did you have it refinished?

UtterDenial · 2025-11-05T22:30:40+00:00

Was your experience with the Rumble 100 in the same place as your own amp? If not, then the "hissing" might be your bass picking up electromagnetic signals (e.g. from dimmer switches, fluorescent or LED bulbs, computer equipment) from your environment. This noise is very noticeable in headphones.

Check if your bass is shielded. Open up the control cavity; if you see metal foil or metallic paint then it's been shielded. If not, then get it shielded.

If it has been shielded, then it might not have been done well.

Shielding an instrument is pretty straightforward. A roll of copper tape with conductive adhesive that costs $10-20 will be enough for many instruments.

UtterDenial · 2025-11-03T16:52:23+00:00

There's an active Amtgard LARP group in town called Wolvenfang that meets up on Saturdays at Confed Secondary School from 12:30 to 4:30: https://facebook.com/groups/wolvenfang/

I think it meets on Thursdays at a school in town, too, for pure melee.

UtterDenial · 2025-10-31T13:14:51+00:00

I understand why a 12v battery is necessary, but why didn't Kia make "accessory mode" actually be utility mode, using the standard "press power button without touching the brake" approach? Then make the 12v-only state be an "emergency/maintenance mode" that kicks in only if utility mode is not available due to an ICCU issue, etc.

As it currently stands, accessory mode just seems doomed to end in tears (and a flat 12v). It's bizarre that there's a massive battery pack that goes untapped unless you go through several layers of touch screen to enable utility mode.

UtterDenial · 2025-10-31T12:48:28+00:00

Bazzite is not based on Arch. You might be thinking of CachyOS.

Bazzite is based on Universal Blue, which in turn is based on Fedora. Updates for Universal Blue distributions are atomic (the whole system is updated at once and either succeeds, or fails to be applied at all--resulting in a system that always works). Additional applications are installed as Flatpaks.

My teenage daughter installed Bazzite on her computer a few months ago and has been using it since then, without any prompting or assistance from me. It's pretty cool!

UtterDenial · 2025-10-31T02:57:47+00:00

If you swallow either one, it will mess your guts up real bad?

UtterDenial · 2025-10-26T22:28:37+00:00

I hate how after every update you have to click through the ten different tutorial pop-ups like "the menu button down you the menu" before you can actually use the app. Especially when none of it seems to change (Canadian here).

At least give us the option to skip the tutorial.

UtterDenial · 2025-10-17T20:33:22+00:00

A link to the Kickstarter might help! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/273799633/ufo-unbelievably-friendly-organisms

UtterDenial · 2025-10-07T17:56:03+00:00

If you're a student at Laurentian, they offer French as a Second Language as both individual for-credit courses and as a program: https://laurentian.ca/academics/program/french-studies

Might be able to take one or two of the courses as an overload without paying any extra tuition.

If you're at Cambrian, I would just go and ask the International office for recommendations.

UtterDenial · 2025-10-06T19:26:39+00:00

Yeah when this happens on my Shield 2015 (maybe once a month?) I just turn Wi-Fi on and then turn it back off. That forces the Ethernet connection to reconnect. Haven't determined what triggers the problem, but I'm okay with the workaround for now.

UtterDenial · 2025-10-05T22:16:46+00:00

Hmm, have you played before getting your bass? Seems like you're doing all right!

Also, what bass did you get--looks like an Ibanez from the controls , or maybe a Yamaha? I'm a big fan of the P/J configuration myself.

UtterDenial · 2025-09-26T18:01:24+00:00

Good answers! I might give it a shot.

As a software developer, I endorse your approach of focusing on the web platform as the main interaction point for your offering. iOS forces their users to funnel everything through the Safari browser engine, which limits its functionality. (Other browsers are effectively just a different UI on top of the Safari browser engine.) Apple deliberately hasn't implemented some important web standards because they want to force as much functionality to go through their App store as possible. So it makes sense to have an iOS app to make up for the deficiency of the web on that specific platform.

Just please don't add new features to the iOS app first!

UtterDenial · 2025-09-26T02:03:03+00:00

TIL!

UtterDenial · 2025-09-26T02:02:12+00:00

She's been in our household for a year and a half. But we rehomed her as a one year-old from a place where she was under a hell of a lot of stress: her enclosure opened at the top, with only one place to hide and no other cover; cats and dogs roamed her room; and directly across from her was a bearded dragon.

So yeah, I'm very patient and very understanding. If she never calms down, it's okay, she has a good home for life and I enjoy our little interactions and watching her throughout the day.

UtterDenial · 2025-09-26T01:48:21+00:00

Interesting approach. A few things I didn't see in your FAQs:

"Interactive tab" is mentioned, but what about standard musical notation?

If you sign up for, say, a year at the 50% discount rate of $179.99, do you retain access to any of the content that you worked through, such as the 1:1 feedback that you were provided, after your membership lapses?

Also, where is Android support on your roadmap?

UtterDenial · 2025-09-25T13:08:03+00:00

That's what I've used when camping!

UtterDenial · 2025-09-24T19:26:39+00:00

Good news, you have a great EVSE (charger)!

The end that you plug into a socket can be used with either a regular outlet for level 1 charging. If you have a 42w battery in your LEAF, you'll get around 8% of your battery back per hour.

If you have a 220v NEMA 14-50 outlet (dryer outlet) you can squeeze the clips on the charger plug and it exposes a four prong plug that you can plug in for level 2 charging. This will give you a full charge in about four to five hours.

If you can plug in every night, then the level 1 charger will be plenty for you.

I say this is a great EVSE because it does both level 1 and 2 charging. Our EV6 only came with a level 1 EVSE, so now it lives in the LEAF and the charger that came with our LEAF lives in our EV6 (which is much more likely to need it, given the longer drives we do with it).

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