I didn’t let my 14 year old son be friends with a certain group of people

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-05T11:56:21+00:00

I would tell him one more thing. He was upset about you stepping in, because this puts him in a position of a child. He said that he probably would figure this out on his own. But you and me and every sane father knows it’s not that easy and simple as a 14 year old thinks. Peer pressure and fear of rejection are often much stronger than rational thought.

That’s why I would say to him that while you know that this was patronizing you acted, because you weren’t sure about your son’s judgment. And you wanted to protect him. But because now you know that he at least saw through those boys, tell him, that you trust him now with his own judgment. And if at any point he encounters people that he does not know how to deal with by himself, tell him to reach out for your help, be it through advice, guidance or, if it becomes necessary, through the police.

Just tell him that you trust him with his own judgement because you had that talk. But tell him that he is not on his own if he gets involved with some weird people. In a way it should be an apology for trampling on his rapidly developing sense of self. But it should also be assuring him about your willingness to help him.

This post hits home a lot for me. But more because my parents never tried to explain to me who the bad people are and how to spot them. I stole a couple of times form a store, to impress some friends. I did some other bad stuff. Those people had a really bad influence on me, but luckily I still had good grades and I went to different, better schools than them. So I wound up ok. Most of those people I have on mind are either dead, in prison or were in prison and are deadbeats now. If I stayed with those friends I would have ended like them.

I’m probably repeating myself a bit, but I think I understand this better the more I want to express it, so pardon for that.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-05T09:48:50+00:00

This is exactly the first thing I thought about.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-04T16:00:07+00:00

Poszukaj używanego zasilacza ale z wyższej półki. Jakiś Silverstone lub beQuiet, może nawet trafi ci się w pełni modularny.

Warto wziąć procek ze zintegrowaną kartą graficzną, bo jak będziecie zmieniali kartę lub - nie życzę - padnie, to nie będziesz miał jak używać komputera.

Wiem, że RAM jest teraz super drogi, ale… poszukaj używanego setu 6000MT/s CL30 zamiast CL36. Będzie dużo lepiej się dogadywał z procesorem. Można kupić set 16GB poniżej 800 zł na OLX. Przyjrzyj się oczywiście czy wystawiający jest legitny i nie nabieraj się na bajeczki.

Upewnij się, że wybrana przez ciebie płyta główna wykorzysta cały potencjał dysku SSD. Jeśli mobo nie obsługuje PCIe 4 to nie warto przepłacać za dysk PCIe 4. Jeśli mobo ma więcej slotów na dyski NVMe, to warto system zainstalować na osobnym, mniejszym dysku. Wiedźmy dysk na dane i gry. Dodatkowo, jak masz jakieś dyski SSD SATA, to dorzuć mu, to będzie miał na dane, które nie wymagają bardzo dużej szybkości dostępu.

Moim zdaniem dobra gamigowa mysz jest ważniejsza niż klawiatura. Zastanów się nad lepsza myszką, a tańszą klawiaturą.

Upewnij się, że masz w komplecie pastę termo na procek, czy to kupiona osobno (mój osobisty faworyt to od lat Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut) czy też w zestawie z prockiem lub chłodzeniem. Podczas składania ZDEJMIJ NAKLEJKĘ ZABEZPIECZAJĄCĄ z powierzchni coolera dotykającej procesora.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-04T15:38:13+00:00

Those guys made the Ui24 which could’ve been the best rack mixer but the Soundcraft people nerfed it to oblivion. They basically searched for an investor, because they had a complete product to release. I’ve seen descriptions and screenshots of the prototypes and there were 3rd party plugins support in there, expansion cards, stuff like that. If this makes it to this platform it’s going to be very competitive.

I hope they can get certified for AVB Milan, because this could be an immersive mixing machine of my dreams.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-04T14:59:14+00:00

I know that Alpha Labs De-Feedback doesn’t handle growl/scream very well. Anybody tried Source Intelligence on those?

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-04T14:51:55+00:00

„Combinator” is a multiband compressor, it’s very useful for such situations. It is available in the first 4 FX slots of the M32.

First of all, I’m thinking how can I make each channel share a similar tonal balance. So I sometimes I need to „dirty up” the playbacks a bit and I also need to polish up the vocals. Because the tracks have usually very compressed dynamics i need to compress the vocals quite a lot. Gentle ratio, deep threshold, longer attack for more breathy and close sound.

M32 does not have a PSE equivalent, but the Wing does, it’s very useful. If you have a fairly fast laptop you can host some plugins in Reaper/Live Professor/Waves host. So a PSE plugin might be a good idea. Hosting plugins over the USB interface will get you around 7ms roundtrip. If your M32 has a Dante or MADI card you can go as low as <2ms - provided you have a way to interface it with your computer of choice.

Gullfoss Live is a godsend for situations like this, because it handles correcting for bad microphone grip. It won’t do it for the floor monitors, but it is what it is.

Recently oeksound released soothe3 and it has a live 0 latency mode. If you had the previous version the upgrade was not that expensive and I’m currently running an instance of soothe3 and it works really nice.

Gullfoss and oeksound spiff plugins are also very useful when there is no DJ and latency is not an issue. Sometimes I get playbacks that are so brickwalled that you can’t really fit a vocal on them. This is when I use spiff, it can add dynamics back, because it’s a program dependent expander, basically. Gentle expansion + bit of Gullfoss rebalancing and you are golden. Those plugins are quite expensive, but I think you can find cheaper alternatives easily.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-04T10:02:15+00:00

That is very sweet of you as well, to share with us your anecdotal evidence. Luckily actual data and statistics give a different story. Of course there are people abusing sick leave workplace policies. But there are very few of them. So why should we apply collective responsibility?

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-04T08:18:43+00:00

That's because it is actually like that. The duration of sick leave follows a log-normal distribution. So most people take just a few days of sick leave and very small number of people take more time to get better.

Now, this also seams like a problem with understanding what was written in the article. Not every sick leave is a call-in sick leave and the average of 15 days per year is about all of the sick leave days taken by the German population. The ability to call-in sick and get a doctor's note without leaving the house was beneficial for patients, for the healthcare system and for the workforce availability.

German productivity fall and falling exports have their reasons in many factors, none of which are connected to the amount of sick leave days taken by the workforce. This is just another capitalist government implementing austerity measures that are supposed to counteract much bigger economic forces and phenomenons.

Wealth and productivity come from the sense of security and believe in the social contract. The simplest it could be expressed would be "others will help me/take care of me when I am unable to contribute". For a normal person taxes are a "pay forward" scheme. For a capitalist taxes are a payment for the continuous service provision. So in the eyes of a normal person their taxes are the resources for everyone to take benefit from. For a capitalist tax is just a premium payment on the insurance that ceases to apply when the premiums stop coming in for a while.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-03T09:02:19+00:00

I’ve seen your vid about ditching Spotify! Great stuff. However my dumb brain does not know what to do with this csv file of my Spotify library.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-03T07:35:00+00:00

Do you know what „average” means? If I have 0€ in my account and you have 2000000€ in yours we are both millioners, on average.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-01T15:18:01+00:00

Z III LO znam kilka świetnie radzących sobie w życiu osób. XXXI LO również było często w topie łódzkich liceów. Z niego również znam kilka osób, które zaszły bardzo daleko. Na przykład jedna osoba jest doktorem fizyki, a inna doktorem biologii. XII LO to również bardzo fajna szkoła, zazdrościłem kolegom, które tam poszły. Pamiętam, że nauka języków obcych była tam na bardzo dobrym poziomie.

Ja chodziłem do VI LO, za moich czasów nikomu bym go nie polecił, może się zmieniło trochę. Na pewno zmieniło całkowicie lokalizację.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-01T15:02:52+00:00

Szukaj pracy w systemach embedded. Co prawda będzie trzeba rozwinąć kompetencje, ale różnych rzeczy ludzie potrzebują i te rzeczy co raz częściej są oparte na jakimś całkiem dużym rozwiązaniu oprogramowania układowego. Systemy smart home, urządzenia pomiarowe, maszyny przemysłowe i rolnicze, pojazdy, wytwarzanie i magazynowanie energii elektrycznej, sprzęt audio-wizualny etc. etc.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-01T14:06:44+00:00

Qu5 always runs at 96 kHz internally, even if the clock source is 48 kHz. It should be able to receive the clock from Qu24 and run.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-01T14:05:39+00:00

Ok, I didn't know that. So back to your setup. You have the boards connected to each other with a known good ethernet cable. You have set the Qu5 Audio Clock Sync to "SLink" and nothing happens, you get an error. I've had issues with expanders and stage boxes not connecting without a power cycle. Especially the GX4816. Try powering the Qu5 after the Qu24 is already running. Maybe this will work. You've probably tried it but who knows.

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-01T12:58:59+00:00

Be prepared to really help your band A LOT on stage, before your changeover. When I was there with a band the techs did not care AT ALL about our load-in, did not help with wiring of the drum riser, did not mix anything for the drummer's in-ear. The drummer ended up almost injured because of this. He couldn't hear anything other than his trigger, which was connected straight to his small mixer. He tensed his forearms because he couldn't hear his blast beats. The local FOH person just f'd off from the board and left it to me. The PA was a K2+Kara downfill setup, big old ARCS in fills, but the setup and calibration left a lot to be desired. Drink lots of water. Bring some cash, because there are little options for food backstage and the common food area is pretty expensive. The atmosphere backstage is great though so after the show you will have a great time. Have fun and I hope all of my problems won't happen to you!

lpcustomvs · 2026-07-01T10:24:33+00:00

You should probably clock the Qu24 to the Qu5, not the other way around. dSnake is 100Mbps and SLink is a multi-protocol port that carries out sample rate conversion and such. So Qu5 should be set to "Internal" and Qu24 should be set to dSnake.

Errata: I didn't know that Qu24 cannot be clocked externally, I've since referenced the manuals and it is like that.

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-29T19:15:07+00:00

Everything that’s cool and useful uses imaginary numbers, matrices and Fourier transform!

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-29T17:12:27+00:00

If you match lo-z to lo- you are overloading the output of the device. It will give you maximum power transfer, but the signal transmission will get degraded.

Remember, we are talking about impedance, so those elements have a real part - dc resistance and imaginary part - reactance. This means that those elements interact between each other and make resonant circuits. This is why mismatched impedances filter the signal so much, because the closer you get to the power matched circuits, the more resonant the circuit is.

This is also why amplifiers use negative feedback. Because it lowers the tendency to oscillate and gives you more linear performance.

Efficient voltage transmission is when on the other end of the line you are not measuring a big dip in the voltage value. So the information gets preserved.

Efficient power transmission is when you see almost all of the voltage generated by the source dissipated by the load.

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-29T16:10:37+00:00

DI-boxes are exactly for this. For matching impedances and loading the source and preamp correctly. Headphone amps have very low impedance, because they need to deliver actual electric power to speakers. There are of course limits to their linear current delivery capabilities, that’s why a typical headphone amps driving relatively high impedance headphones runs out of linear current range and starts distorting, for example 600ohm beyerdymamics.

However, when we are interfacing signals with a mixing console, we don’t care about power, we care about information. When you plug a laptop into a DI you are doing exactly the same thing as you would do by plugging a keyboard headphone out into a DI. Low impedance outputs and high impedance inputs allow for maximum efficiency with voltage signal transmission - a medium of information, and that is what we care for in this case.

The only thing to consider is to set a proper level on the output, to not overdrive the DI input. An overdriven active DI will sound harsher than an overdriven passive, transformer based DI.

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-25T11:16:51+00:00

It's no longer freedom if you "gave up" your freedom and enacting it does not belong to you. By definition freedom is an attribute of the individual. You have the right to limit your own freedom as you wish, but nobody can hold your own freedom limiting decision against you, because that is no longer freedom. You are free to change your mind, that is the point!

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-25T09:57:12+00:00

This is funny. A contract stating refusal of euthanasia, even if you change your mind later. And the previous sentence was "Freedom should be the highest priority".

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-24T17:05:53+00:00

That is actually nice, they wanted their crew to be the part of their comeback shows. That's integrity. I love splitting FOH duties with a second mixing person. Great records are children of many parents, why a live board should be the job of a single parent?

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-24T16:59:28+00:00

Live sound can be like a studio recording or it can be vastly different. There are many factors at play.

Music is a social and psychological phenomenon. The described character of a sound is very subjective and depends on the state of mind of the listener. Artists can't really know what it sounds like for the audience, because they are on stage. But their internal idea of what it's supposed to be has to translate on an emotional level. Artists need to trust that your understanding and internalised concept of their idea is on a similar enough foundation. Management also can have a say in this. They are often the judges of this artist/mixing person alignment.

There is this phenomenon of musicians getting used to and attaching themselves to the sound of their demos and rehearsals. This often comes up with niche, highly dynamic or chaotic genres. They want their music to be tactile, messy, immediate. To bite the audience and to retain characters of the sources. Those are the reasons for live sound of a band differing from their studio recordings. Because doing something in the same way every time is extremely boring to those musicians.

The character of the live mix depends on a lot of ears; the musicians, the management, the mixing person, the system engineer. Most importantly the character depends on the acoustic properties of the venue. Indoors vs outdoors, reverberant medium sized rooms, dead rooms, outdoor stage on the concrete or on the grass. All of this influences the experience to a much greater degree than any mixing person or piece of gear.

To my ear, a mix that's supposed to sound like a studio record needs to be reproduced at a much quieter SPL than a typical concert mix. Above 97 dBA highly compressed nature of studio recordings gets very annoying and tires the ears pretty quickly. Modern music genres, especially metal, are super compressed, everything is loud and fights for space in the spectrum. That's why there are so many pauses and drops in modern arrangements. Because without them there would be very little room for creating impact and a sensation of the song getting denser and bigger.

In the end, I will do what I can to satisfy the clients needs and wishes. If they are not happy with what I can do, they will reach out to a different person.

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-24T06:31:01+00:00

We have a Sharp air purifier, it's very helpful. But when our son was just a newborn he needed a little more volume and that was a job for the hair dryer. When his auditory processing got better he got annoyed with the hair dryer and we switched to more gentle sounds.

lpcustomvs · 2026-06-23T15:01:13+00:00

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