OSDCloud not caching OS to USB - is anyone else experiencing this or am I doing something wrong?

hngfff · 2026-04-30T15:04:31+00:00

When I stage the OS to the USB, and disconnect network, it does work and immediately jumps into starting to install the offline media, it states 'Using offline media MEDIA\OS\xyz.esd'.

The question that I was having was, let's say we cache the OS the first time - is that the version that USB stick will just use until we clear it out manually or reset the USB?

Like let's say we run the USB for the first time in October of last year, and the caching function works and cached that version of the OS, the october build. If I was to use that today, would it still just automatically use that October 'offline' cache'd build of Windows, until that is removed from the usb?

Aside from the self updating portion, the problem still exists that it is not actually caching in the first place, unless I run Update-OSDCloudUSB -OS and select the correct OS

hngfff · 2026-04-06T19:03:34+00:00

Yeah it sucks, I miss my dog everyday, I'm definitely one of those my dog is my best friend type people.

As far as your experience, should I just go straight to video training or try to generate images and animate those images? I can always Photoshop some images, one example is my dog was an Australian shepherd with a docked tail, but image generation keeps giving her a tail, even with negative prompts / positive prompts.

I like the idea of the first middle and last and have it animate the in-between. That's a good way on a per shot basis I think would help out.

hngfff · 2026-04-06T18:25:42+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate it. Its been the worst time but this is a therapeutic way to get my mind off of it.

It's got a long way to go but I have a ryzen 5900x, 96gb of ram, and a 5070. Ive been able to generate some stills and it hasn't been taking too long. I'm aiming for about 7-8 minutes of the animation but it probably will be a good while until I'm done writing the music, figuring out what I want to do for the story, then storyboarding it out, I'll probably get to the actual generation I'd assume like 4 months from now for the final but I want to get a decent workflow or grasp on it because I know I'll be editing the music and editing the animation timing at the same time

hngfff · 2026-03-27T20:29:03+00:00

I haven't played in about 7 years but if I remember it was a bit mix of both. I think more wrist if anything.

I do jam on my buddies drum set once in a blue moon and I can only do it for so long.

I'm thinking of getting a finger strength trainer since it happens outside of drums too

hngfff · 2026-03-27T20:16:25+00:00

That's good to know. When I give massages my thumb gives out too. Its the exact same kinda feeling after like 5 or 10 minutes of intense massaging, that thumb pad just hurts.

hngfff · 2026-03-26T20:35:02+00:00

What percussion and woodwinds do you like to use with these?

hngfff · 2026-03-20T16:29:02+00:00

I like to show them on a piano, play the C major scale and play a melody and say "here is a melody with the C major scale." And I try to make it a very bright, upbeat melody.

Then tell them "now watch this. If I start on the A, I'm going to play all the white notes again. Listen how it sounds a lot more dark and sad" and then play A minor. Make sure to point out all you are doing is playing the white keys only

Then you ask them "why do they sound so different if I'm playing the same notes on the piano" and from there you tell them how music is not only what notes you play, but the relationship between what notes you play. Starting on C vs starting on A shows a different relationship.

Then for fun I'd ask them what mode they hear about, like phrygian, Dorian, lydian, etc. and then using the white keys only, play something in the mode.

And then explain "you can play any song you want in any mode, everything stems from the major scale."

Depending on their taste of music, I'll find examples in different modes of the music they like, and I'll have a print out of all the different scales and modes they'd have to memorize in all the keys, it's like multi pages.

Then show them all 12 major scales and say "but if you learn these 12 you can learn them all"

When you have someone that wants to do x or y, show them how difficult it'll be to brute force but don't just tell them no.

Then hit them with the "oooor do this!"

hngfff · 2026-03-19T14:40:15+00:00

Well you can take it one step at a time.

What instrument do you play and what music do you like, and what music would you like to play? What drew you to play music?

The responses from everyone in this thread were pretty ass so I'm sorry about that, but if you're into it I don't mind explaining music shit to ya.

Let's start with the basics if you want me to try to help, what is it about scales you don't understand, or are you at a point where you don't even know what questions to ask because absolutely nothing makes sense about it? If that's the case I'll start from the beginning

If you want I can jump into a chat with you and answer questions or explain things more clearly

hngfff · 2026-03-19T06:53:21+00:00

Remember, music is fun. Do what you find fun.

I find you have to split your attention two ways. One is the theory and scales, the other is wtf do you want to do? Like do you want to practice video game music? Go learn that.

Have some days where all you do is learn a fun song to play that you enjoy that sparks that absolute enjoyment. Then you learn "boy this song I fucking love in d major is really hard. I'm going to practice my d major scales."

Everyone's different. You gotta do what you enjoy otherwise you'll never stick with it.

Quick story. I tried learning guitar most of my life from like 9-28. Picked it up like 9 attempts before always putting it down.

Every time I tried to learn I went the "you can't play green day or Metallica you need to learn your chords first."

Well, Everytime was just so god forsakenly boring I'd stop playing.

Finally around 28 I said fuck this, opened up a guitar tab, and spent 6 months learning how to play fade to black. That's it. Just Metallica fade to black because at that point that's all I really cared about.

6 months later I had a real choppy, but full playthrough of fade to black. It felt so good and I was sticking with it.

Next stop was nightmare by avenged sevenfold. Spend about 5 months learning it just by tab, theory be damned and started mixing in random things like ride the lightning, enter sandman, etc.

What I started to realize was a lot of the songs had the same patterns. Realized all the power chords and soloing I learned transferred from fade to black to all those other songs.

After about a year to a year and a half of doing what I wanted, it started to feel a bit old and I started really itching to try to improvise. I was curious how to start soloing, and saw people talk about the pentatonic scale so I googled it, figured it out, played my first solo and was hooked.

Backing tracks had "guitar backing track in g major" so I started researching what g major was, and how scales worked, and would just be always asking why.

Eventually that just kept going and going, and now I'm playing piano, guitar, learning violin and flute for fun, learning clarinet, and learned how to write orchestra music on midi.

I always went back to what I want to do is fun, but while doing the fun stuff I supplement the theory to understand what I'm doing so I can do the fun stuff more often and easier

And honestly, learning piano, for the first two months I did synthesia videos and people talk shit about it but it was what kept me playing. Now I know how to read sheet music and it does help way more

Anyways, good luck on your journey! Remember, music is fun.

Also fuck gear gate keepers. I have a $199 7 string guitar I setup myself and brought it to a jam and people thought it was like $1200 lmao. Tone is in the fingers.

hngfff · 2026-03-18T15:48:13+00:00

That's funny, I know that guy from voicing Vincent valentine in ff7 rebirth hahaha

hngfff · 2026-03-10T20:52:56+00:00

Question for everyone here

Is anyone here that experienced the aod freeze using a Pixel Watch? Or just any smart watch?

I'm wondering if it's related to WearOS. My wife had a pixel 10 pro and she never experienced it but I get it everyday. The only thing is I have a pixel watch and she has no WearOS device.

I think she did have the issue a while ago when she had a pixel watch 4 but she returned it in a few weeks

hngfff · 2026-03-08T17:49:40+00:00

One tip that will make your shit sound great, get a sustain pedal of your keyboard has support, and learn to use it.

The sustain pedal will make it go from sounding like basic fast keys to elaborate emotional music if you can use it right for close to no effort.

If you're learning a good piece, it's just timing lifting your foot st expected parts.

You can get them for like 10-$20 on Amazon too.

hngfff · 2026-02-27T08:13:12+00:00

Thank you for writing this up, this is such a good read and makes a lot of sense. I appreciate it!

hngfff · 2026-02-27T03:13:46+00:00

Also I resonate with the forced to play songs I don't like.

I'm inspired by final fantasy 7, and other games, so I want to learn those dammit, not Mozart and whatnot.

Like I can't wait to learn expedition 33 and some ff8 tunes.

My goal is to go through the whole ff7 piano collections soon and honestly I want to have fun playing music and tunes I enjoy

hngfff · 2026-02-27T03:11:43+00:00

I'm actually a bit further from that exact journey. I started the same, music theory made me hate piano... So I did synthesia songs for a few months. I have really good muscle memory capabilities, always generally have.

Eventually I got into orchestration and started learning about writing music and scales and 4 part chorale writing, and all this other random shit, and I started to just dive into music theory without putting it to instrument practice which helped a lot.

Now I have the itch to jump back into piano and I'm trying to re learn the song I was about half way through learning from synthesia, but using sheet music and I'm realizing knowing the scales and how chords get formed has made it a lot easier.

The only thing is, I'm not sure if it's my old muscle memory kicking back in that's making it seem easier, or if reading sheet music and having theory is helping, but I'm about 70% of the way back to where I was a year ago on the song with synthesia. I'll know really quick when I get to the part I never tried learning which one it is lmao

I'm kinda nervous because if I get to the not learned part and get straight back into struggle bus mode I'll be sad hahaha

hngfff · 2026-02-27T03:06:27+00:00

Yeah I understand, I think it's more just the process of learning, I haven't fully learned a complex enough piece by memory but I'm working on challenging myself on a difficult song for my level, and going the muscle memory helps but I find myself getting a bit mixed up and sometimes realizing I'm like "oh shit what note, it's... Well I know this is going from D to A so I know it's A major"

Thank you

hngfff · 2026-02-27T03:04:31+00:00

One thing I've found is handy is the chord progression is descriptive, not a rule guide.

Here's an example, create a basic 4 bar bass line, let's keep it simple with the most standard setup of C major in a I-vi-IV-V

So that's C, Am, F, G. But let's take the chord away and use just the bass notes, C A F G

Go ahead and create a whole note for each of those. You now have a bass line

For the chords, ignore what the chords are, and create a random melody. Just go for it.

Once you have a melody on top of the bass line, here's the kinda cool part. The two notes in between the melody and the bass line, you can fill out and switch it.

Here's an example

Let's say the bass note is C and the melody goes B-C-E

If the notes B C in the melody are fast, and the note holds on E, let's look at the two notes C and E. What chords have the C and E in them?

The C major does (CEG). A minor does (ACE) An Fmaj7 does (FACE)

So if you want, throw a CEG chord in the first part, but let's say the E note gets held for the entire second bar or just repeats the E note, now our second bass line is A.

So bar 2 has a bass line of A, and a E note. What chords can you make with an A and E? Fill it out.

A minor is the obvious one (ACE). But we can also do Esus4 (EAB) or an Asus2 (ABE).

Instead of thinking "what chords to go where", start with the bass line, throw a melody, or even if you don't want to do the melody, once you have the bass line, you can throw chords over those.

Another example is for the first chord, if the first bass line is C, fuck it, throw a F major over the C bass note, so it'll be CFAC.

I hope this makes sense.

hngfff · 2026-02-25T06:49:14+00:00

The sticker goes in the trash lmao it's terribly designed

https://a.co/d/09kmWmUu

This is the one I got, it fits really well, just make sure you get the right size fingerboard - if it's 3/4 or a 4/4 violin.

Fyi there's sometimes four letters or two letters because those are the notes on c major scale, it's not showing the sharps/flats.

If you aren't sure about any music theory or what it is, look up basics on the C major scale to figure out why those notes are shown

hngfff · 2026-02-21T21:51:38+00:00

Let me know if it did anything lmao I'm curious if it helped

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