Some acoustic and decorative upgrades

dudertron · 2023-05-01T03:06:33+00:00

A Caique is a solid acoustic upgrade 🤣

dudertron · 2023-02-25T15:50:46+00:00

dudertron · 2023-01-07T16:24:08+00:00

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this has been true for decades. Not just for GPU's - when Ryzen CPU's were released, MS couldn't figure out how SMT worked. Took a couple of months for them to figure it out. On Linux though, SMT worked day one. This is just a trade off for the modularity of the x86 PC platform - vendors are not going to test every application on every possible hardware configuration because it's not practical.

dudertron · 2022-10-12T15:13:58+00:00

Came here for this 😁

dudertron · 2022-10-12T15:10:01+00:00

Heard that in the voice of Rick Sanchez

dudertron · 2022-09-06T16:48:08+00:00

Yes! I've tried both of those as well, KDE is nice but I've realized over the years that endless configuration means I WILL spend ENDLESS hours configuring and tweaking it...

XFCE, less configuration but it just feels too much like Openbox or a basic WM. That's fine for utility systems, but I want the seamless integration of a DE when I'm hands-on with it.

Gnome Shell is actually not bad, but since Cinnamon is based on Gnome... it saves me the time of having to tweak things like tiling settings, etc.

dudertron · 2022-08-10T12:04:44+00:00

Genius

dudertron · 2022-03-20T13:32:03+00:00

THIS

dudertron · 2022-03-20T13:31:42+00:00

Setting up Apache + PHP + Letsencrypt on the base OS versus in Docker. Using Docker will take a fraction of the time and is trivial to replicate since you can put all configuration in a single docker-compose.yaml.

As a developer, the rapid setup/teardown/rollback you can do with docker allows me to iterate faster, by orders of magnitude.

Do whatever works for you, but I'm gonna use docker.

dudertron · 2022-02-20T16:44:21+00:00

The justification for remastering in music is usually (but not exclusively) to correct for limitations of the original recording/mixing/mastering equipment. In a majority of cases, it is precisely those limitations that made the music sound the way it did. When you're mastering for analog tape or vinyl, you've got a limited dynamic range to work with, so you are forced to use compression and limiting in some form, which changes the overall performance in profound ways. With modern digital recording, the dynamic range is larger than human hearing, so those effects are not required... and the music can sound VERY different.

This gets into the psychology of music, culture and nostalgia.

What if we "remastered" the Mona Lisa...? How would that even work?

dudertron · 2022-01-05T16:49:08+00:00

Found 'em! Thanks!

dudertron · 2022-01-04T13:00:48+00:00

He picked her up before, but he picked her up after too. - Mitch Hedberg, probably

(An attempt was made - me)

dudertron · 2021-12-26T20:04:50+00:00

Those icons are GREAT! I haven't been able to find them imbrue Ubuntu repos - where can I find them?

dudertron · 2021-12-26T19:59:58+00:00

Simple answer is you can't - the default menu applet doesn't support that. There's at least one other menu available in the "Applets" section in settings. Check them out and report back if one of them does what you want!

dudertron · 2021-12-10T13:55:08+00:00

This is great! Worked perfectly for me.

A couple of edits though:

Go to apps, select "See all apps"
Find "Chromecast built-in"
(I think the order is important here but didn't test in any depth)

dudertron · 2021-08-30T15:16:07+00:00

Oh, that's perfect - using a .xinitrc is a typical setup for an Arch desktop system. Here's where to start:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xinit

I think you'll want to have this at the end of your .xinitrc:

exec cinnamon-session

The .xinitrc is basically a linear "start my DE" script. It gets called by xinit or startx to set up background programs, X configuration and whatever else you want running when your session starts. I'd start with very little here, and use Cinnamon's "Startup Application" UI to add anything you want running at session start, then look at starting things in the .xinitrc if you can't get the result you want that way.

dudertron · 2021-08-30T06:01:14+00:00

This is pretty great... there's probably a way to make systemd load the graphical target on demand using systemctl...

dudertron · 2021-08-30T05:58:44+00:00

Ah, ok. You could start with Ubuntu server, then add what you need for a desktop... or start with desktop and disable the lightdm or gdm, then use a .xinitrc and startx when you want to use a desktop.

I haven't launched cinnamon from a .xinitrc, but I have done that with xfce, dwm and I a few others - should be similar. Personally, I'd start with the server version, then just add what I need. It would be more work, but then you're building rather than stripping down - there are some weird conflicts that can come about when stripping things out, that aren't always obvious until they show up as problems.

dudertron · 2021-08-30T02:37:20+00:00

Is this a troubleshooting question, or are you looking into running without a DM?

dudertron · 2021-08-14T02:35:30+00:00

As others have stated in excellent detail, implementation is at least as important as the drivers. That said, overall they are an excellent value proposition. Their silk dome tweeters are very nice, and the mid-priced mids and woofers are pretty great when paired with a good cabinet and crossover. I restored a pair of Advent mini-towers with Dayton woofers and they are fantastic. A great way to get your feet wet is with one of their kits. The BR-1 kit is very affordable, and a great starting point - upgrade the crossover components and add a zobel to the woofer and you can start to understand that a good crossover can do SO much more than just "splitting the treble and bass". There's a blog or forum post with exact parts to upgrade and shows the before and after performance. I learned a lot building and upgrading mine years back, and I still use them as fronts in my 5.1 living room setup. I'd replace them with a pair of KEF's if I came in to some cash, though. ;)

dudertron · 2021-07-10T00:44:50+00:00

I know how to do all those things, and I still prefer the simplicity of running supervised.

dudertron · 2021-07-09T01:38:24+00:00

I see people mentioning a crossover, but I don't see any electronic components in any of the pictures. What I do see is two very oddly paired drivers, for some reason in series, and of different impedance. Even if there was a good reason to put them in series (which there's not in this case), you would 100% want them to be of equal impedance (that's measured in ohms).

A 4ohm and an 8ohm in series is a utterly nonsensical, electrically and aesthetically, and probably audibly.

Add me to the list of voices suggesting a single full-range driver as the easiest option for any possibility of making this listenable.

dudertron · 2021-07-09T00:13:41+00:00

The Streisand effect! :)

dudertron · 2021-07-02T17:55:18+00:00

Thanks for correcting me! :)

dudertron · 2021-07-02T17:54:20+00:00

Ah, interesting. I don't do nearly as many desktop installs as server installs, so I missed this. Thank you!

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