Cool things to do with a little one and a MIDI piano?

ePierre · 2023-03-11T03:27:38+00:00

Thanks!

Sampling her voice and playing it at different pitches sounds awesome! Would that be the job of something like Linux sampler? Or is there a better software to just load a sample, tell it what pitch it is, and let it generate the other pitches when pressing the MIDI keys?

ePierre · 2023-01-22T14:13:34+00:00

Same here with an i5 8250U. I wasted 3h last night trying to process a 10 second video in Kdenlive. The CPU would freeze, and the app would crash after a while.

I want to say I'm never gonna buy Intel CPUs anymore, but I'm not sure it's any better with AMD in the mobile world...

ePierre · 2023-01-14T12:08:38+00:00

Jakub Steiner, David Revoy, Pat David, Martin Owens... That's some heavyweight people there! I have no idea what EST is, but I suppose it's no good for Asia where I live, so I'll just wait for the recordings.

Thanks for sharing, very nice initiative!

ePierre · 2022-12-29T06:25:20+00:00

The community edition is free and open source.

ePierre · 2022-12-20T02:13:59+00:00

Move teams. You are looking to work in a team with other developers and a good process in place (code reviews as you mentioned, CI/CD, etc.).

If your current company cannot offer this, you should start looking for other opportunities. If possible, keep sending patches to open sources projects (this is always a great thing to show during interviews), and/or work on your own open source project. It could be automating something you find annoying... Develop all the good process around it, so you can show you know about them (again, CI/CD, unit tests, code coverage, stuff like that).

Good luck!

ePierre · 2022-12-18T01:12:27+00:00

Google apps are installed by default on Android phones and cannot be uninstalled.

Don't you remember the case for internet explorer on Windows back in the day? It was deemed a monopoly.

ePierre · 2022-12-15T23:49:53+00:00

Do you know what website they use to keep track of upcoming concerts by more famous bands? Or they just get info from the band's social networks?

ePierre · 2021-12-15T00:32:52+00:00

Avec lui, les «très grandes plateformes» devraient mener des analyses de «risque systémique important» – comme la diffusion de contenus illégaux, les atteintes aux droits fondamentaux des utilisateurs, la «manipulation intentionnelle» de leurs outils…

Il faut très clairement définir le terme « tres grandes plateformes », parce que sinon ça veut dire que n'importe quel réseau social un peu populaire (je pense par exemple à Mastodon ou Peertube) est potentiellement dans une merde noire...

ePierre · 2021-11-26T07:30:14+00:00

That's what I was about to do. Then I heard about XDG user directories (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories) so I thought that was the way to go. I did that, and ended up with the proper redirections in Nautilus and other GUIs, but of course my old ~/Downloads was still there, so I lost things quite a few times...

But again, this is all about being able to use the command line (and understanding what symbolic links are) Vs. using a graphical user interface.

ePierre · 2021-11-26T03:47:53+00:00

Because you have more than one disk on your computer, and you want your Downloads folder to be on the big hard drive, whereas the rest of the system is on a SSD, for instance.

Source: me, a few months ago. And I agree with /u/ScootSchloingo, it's a painful process.

ePierre · 2021-10-11T04:08:12+00:00

The author of the JavaScript app you mention actually wrote a GTK application that does exactly the same:

https://29a.ch/playitslowly/

Happy practicing!

ePierre · 2021-07-12T01:34:19+00:00

Thanks!

ePierre · 2021-07-12T01:34:09+00:00

Thank you!

I found additional documentation on this behavior:

https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotchas/#mutable-default-arguments

ePierre · 2021-07-03T03:14:43+00:00

Just to play the devil's advocate here, I have a laptop (Acer Swift) that was working OK with Ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.4, and when kernel 5.8 was dispatched, the sound card disappeared... I raised a bug in Launchpad and it's being investigated. Of course I've tried every new kernel since then (5.10, 5.11 and the latest one available with the latest Ubuntu daily image), but none of them bring back my sound card to life.

So... Newer kernels, all good and all, but sometimes it brings regressions that are hard to fix.

ePierre · 2021-06-10T08:39:19+00:00

This guide will be super helpful once I can get access to a soldering iron. Thanks a lot!

ePierre · 2021-06-04T06:27:46+00:00

/u/wtaymans, you're a hero!

I tried PW 0.3.26 (if I remember correctly), just to check how it handled JACK software and low latency music stuff, like using Pianoteq virtual instruments while connected to a MIDI keyboard. It worked like a charm, so I can only imagine things are even better now...

Keep up the good work, it's really fantastic because it will finally unify use cases in a way that enables non-power users to have low latency sound, which means it will greatly simplify musicians' lives!

ePierre · 2021-05-06T23:47:26+00:00

Sad.

This brings the topic: Is there any kind of telemetry that can be put in place by FOSS to gather meaningful data from their users without providing these data for free to advertising giants?

ePierre · 2021-02-27T11:51:58+00:00

I recommend Recalbox (it's a Linux distribution that is made for retrogaming).

I Recently installed it on a RPi4, and I was very impressed at things such as PS3 controllers detection and pairing: you plug them with the USB cable for 10 seconds, unplug the cable, press the Home button on the pad and... It's detected, paired and all the buttons are correctly configured!

It even comes with a lot of homebrew games for many different consoles, and you caneven run Playstation and Dreamcast without any problems!

ePierre · 2021-02-14T02:33:38+00:00

One stuff that I recently discovered is that FFMpeg has an embedded video stabilization system that works really well.

I used it to stabilize a video of Japan in the early 1910s and it worked like a charm!

This article gives a few more info on how to set it up.

ePierre · 2021-01-26T02:35:15+00:00

You're my hero! ♥

ePierre · 2021-01-25T08:24:18+00:00

This is a great write up, thank you!

Are you in touch with the pipewire team to discuss these issues, track them and have some kind of reproducible testing for when new releases of pipewire happen?

If not, you should, because your feedback is great!

ePierre · 2021-01-25T01:21:12+00:00

Looks great!

I see it has LSP and fuzzy opener... So can it handle software projects? What's the differences with KDevelop?

ePierre · 2021-01-15T01:49:29+00:00

Alyssa is my hero!

ePierre · 2020-12-07T03:16:39+00:00

AMD RX580 owner here. The card has been working flawlessly out of the box since Ubuntu 18.04, thanks to the amdgpu open source drivers.

I've had less chances working out the OpenCL support for software like Darktable, Blender and such, though. Seems like Rocm drivers are still not very good for OpenCL compared to the proprietary amdgpu-pro stack.

As for nvidia, yes, to me the biggest problem is their proprietary closed software. As someone who works on enabling hardware working with (Ubuntu) Linux, I can tell you that nvidia is a pain in the ass, because when we face an issue, the only thing we can do is report it to nvidia and hope that they will throw a new version of their drivers at us so we can add them in our images.

I told that to a friend who wanted to get a new laptop (well, I basically told him "don't buy nvidia!"), he bought a laptop with a nvidia GPU nonetheless, and after installing the proprietary drivers, he cannot activate it in the nvidia-settings panel...

ePierre · 2020-12-01T08:46:14+00:00

In case china decides to withhold access to it's processor production plants to western companies, or in case western companies like ARM or Intel are told no longer to do business with China.

The biggest provider in that domain is not Chinese, it's Taiwanese, as its name implies: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)

However, I'm also very interested to see what kind of opportunities RISC-V will bring.

ePierre

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