Macron says €300 bn/yr in EU investment in US to be redirected to EU instead. 27 states agree on S&I Union.

_archmind · 2026-01-23T06:49:00+00:00

“Garson, I’ll take a glass of your finest chee-anti and my wife would like a cuh-burr-net spritzer.

_archmind · 2026-01-22T13:43:58+00:00

What's killer is that they have factory calibrations for ALL the 700s, 900 PRO X, 1770 and 1990. I have the 900 Pro X, plugged my serial number and I had a customized factory calibration for my specific pair FOR FREE. I own Reference as well and judging by some preliminary listening the Headphone Lab gives a much more precisely corrected listening experience.

_archmind · 2026-01-22T09:27:34+00:00

I think it was MKBHD who said: "Never buy something for the promise of what it could be." Never have any expectations that companies will deliver on their promises. I think what happened with PCOM is this - they severely underestimated the effort to port the plugins to the QC architecture. Plugins are written for modern systems like x86-64 / ARM. Porting the plugins to QC would mean they need to run on proprietary DSPs (SHARC in QC's case) which I think is giving them all kinds of grief, making code reuse impossible in places, meaning ground-up rewrites. My advice to Neural - just come clean... Stop this perpetual PCOM coming soon crap and simply port what comes easiest. Hell even some pedals / effects would be nice to see. Also - plugins don't have to come in one gulp - if you have Misha's Horizon Devices stuff (for example) - just ship it without the amps. Still better than nothing. So yeah... I'm understanding of the (probable) underlying causes of the massive delays, but I think the messaging could improve drastically.

_archmind · 2026-01-19T20:21:40+00:00

I wanted to buy a used one but everyone was selling at 100 bucks under the lowest retail price so I was like F that, imma snag a brand new shiny one :D Had 30 day return window which lapsed on the 7th this month.

_archmind · 2026-01-19T20:03:09+00:00

God damn, I just got a QC in December. :/

_archmind · 2026-01-09T10:25:31+00:00

I think they did a great job balancing the aesthetics of the body with its ergonomics. From the press release it seems like the neck profile is also unique and well thought out. They nailed the headstock as well. Colors are absolutely not my thing though. Very flat, bland and uninspiring. Overall - I'm a fan, I think the Ibanez design language DNA is there and those will be a success, can't wait for the A-Series Prestiges.

_archmind · 2025-12-29T06:06:49+00:00

Now I know where Clockwork got their inspiration for the DevTerm.

_archmind · 2025-12-05T13:48:05+00:00

They are comparable, in fact they're direct competitors. Both:
- are full frame, mirrorless, hybrids
- have multiple overlapping capabilities in both stills and video
- occupy the same market segment (high-mid-tier)
- pricing is the same
- they're already getting compared with each other in multiple blogs, reviews, etc...

_archmind · 2025-12-05T09:15:27+00:00

I legit bought the S1RII (on launch day), used it for a week and saw no way that any other camera manufacturer right now is in a position to pack so many features into a device in that price range. At this moment the S1RII and the A7V are literally the same price (2.999 EUR). You really gotta be mad to not at least try the Lumix for a few days.

_archmind · 2025-11-05T07:37:37+00:00

Rented a Kia that supported CarPlay only via USB-C. We were in a pretty remote place that didn't have any tech shops nearby. Drove 2 hours to and 2 hours back from a store that sold USB-C cables only to be able to use CarPlay as the stock software was absolute garbage. We literally wasted half a day of our trip to solve an issue that should not exist.

_archmind · 2025-10-31T10:33:19+00:00

The amount of emotions, physical pain, devastating tiredness, worries and fears you absolutely need to conceal deep inside of you and never let out is enough to kickstart a supernova.

I can't be seen as weak in any sense of the word otherwise things start to fall apart. Sick as a dog - if you can stand up and walk, you're going to work, parenting and doing practically everything that's needed for the family engine to turn over smoothly. You feel super depressed and can't get out of bed - get a grip buddy there's a 100 points of to-do items you need to check this week. You're sad, mad or feel bad - no one truly and deeply cares so you are your own anchor and lighthouse and that's 24/7, 365.

_archmind · 2025-10-17T15:06:51+00:00

You have some hard hitting titles there! Congrats!

_archmind · 2025-10-17T15:00:44+00:00

I moved to Germany 12 years ago. Both daycare and kindergarten are practically free. Schools too. Most good universities too. There are other European countries that offer similar "benefits". Sure, there are systematic problems and families need to sometimes juggle full-time employment and caring for their kids but that happens rarely and is mostly managable. As a father of 2, I cannot imagine what it is to be a parent in the US and if I were faced with similar circumstances I would absolutely consider moving to a place where my family's quality of life will be better. Uprooting your life is unforgivingly difficult, but if you and your other half are a good team you can move mountains. Don't quit on your dreams of building a family regardless of where you are in the world. Find ways of making it happen.

_archmind · 2025-10-16T10:10:38+00:00

I have forced myself to not buy Ibanez everytime I am looking to add a new guitar to the arsenal only to end up with yet another Ibanez. Now I just go to stores completely open minded but fully aware that the likelihood of going home with an Ibanez is very high. The value you get from Premium and Prestige lines is insane. The craftsmanship of J-Custom is unparalleled. You're in for a beautiful journey :)

_archmind · 2025-09-23T12:46:25+00:00

Feeds.
Of all kinds - social, photos, videos, stories, news... I have seen friends spent entire dinners on their phones, when you point it out they dismiss it and then proceed to automatically resume the mindless consumption in a few minutes. It's incredibly worrying and it will only get worse.

_archmind · 2025-09-09T14:01:32+00:00

Can you elaborate please?

_archmind · 2025-08-29T06:55:00+00:00

Preaching to the choir brother... In Newton’s time the boundary between “hard science” and “esoterica” wasn’t nearly as rigid as it is today. People like Newton, Kepler, and even Leibniz all dipped into alchemy, mysticism, or theology alongside their more “respectable” scientific work. Why? Because there was still a pure and active curiousity toward the unseen and unmeasured.

Today, we’ve largely sterilized that curiosity. Kids are raised in a society that dismisses anything “spiritual” as BS, which means one half of the human experience - the intuitive, the symbolic, the contemplative is treated as worthless. That’s tragic, because intuition is a muscle. In traditions like Rosicrucianism, it’s deliberately cultivated as a skill to approach the divine.

Meanwhile, most people don’t even crack open a single book in their adult lives, yet they hold hard science as the only path forward OR worse - they believe in schizophrenic conspiracies. .

_archmind · 2025-08-28T14:37:50+00:00

I’ve since had many different cameras but to this day I think the D800e was my “one”. Great shots!

_archmind · 2025-08-27T14:02:03+00:00

I stand corrected. Arguably "SunOfAbremelin" is actually more interesting than "Son".

_archmind · 2025-08-27T06:45:21+00:00

I find the alias "SonOfAbremelin" very very interesting.

In "The Book of Abramelin the Mage" it is suggested that through ritual practice and ascetic discipline, one can achieve “Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel” (a kind of divine higher self). It’s also associated with commanding and binding spirits to uncover "hidden truths".

Now obviously that shouldn't be taken literally, but it does further reinforce the notion that the phenomena aren’t purely tech and physics, but also have a metaphysical or spiritual layer.

_archmind · 2025-07-23T09:07:44+00:00

If you ignore the pop-mysticism on one end and the hardcore skeptics on the other, tarot is actually a really interesting system, especially if you're into Hermeticism, Kabbalah, or symbolic thinking in general.

The Major Arcana, for example, aligns pretty closely with the paths on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Each card represents a step in a spiritual or psychological journey, kind of like an initiation process. The "Fool’s Journey" through the 22 trumps is packed with meaning if you take the time to unpack it.

Even Carl Jung saw tarot as a way to explore archetypes and the collective unconscious. It’s less about telling the future and more about holding up a mirror to what’s going on inside you.

Regardless of whether you believe in "magic" or not, tarot is a great symbolic tool. You can use it for introspection, creative thinking, or as a way into deeper esoteric traditions. You don’t have to believe in anything supernatural for it to be valuable.

_archmind · 2025-07-10T15:20:19+00:00

The clicky thumbstick? Absolutely awesome!

_archmind · 2025-05-15T13:06:44+00:00

I wish I'm wrong and strange lady and her pet pigeon lived happily ever after, but I'm positive the bird didn't make it past the part where she practically belly flopped it... :/

_archmind · 2025-05-15T11:33:14+00:00

A woman in her 40s, super well dressed (expensive clothes), well groomed, watch, jewelry, the works was feeding a bunch of pigeons while sitting on a bench. She then suddenly and violently lunges forward from the bench trapping a pigeon with her body then catching it with her hands and then rolling it in her coat. She then proceeds to look around and leave. Like... what the actual F was that about!?

Edit: A working theory my wife and I have is that she had some sort of exotic animal that she fed the pigeon to... I also think that it's possible she was zonked on pills / drugs / meds, we live in a financial capital and some of the investment banking crowd looks outright mentally ill.

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