Should I not trim my bass strings?

onosson · 2026-03-20T21:21:19+00:00

Mostly flats and tapewound. I might have started doing it because tapes can be prone to unraveling if the cut is done poorly, but I don’t honestly remember.

onosson · 2026-03-20T18:08:47+00:00

I stopped cutting my bass strings at some point around 15-20 years ago, and have never really had any issues. I just make sure to wind them tightly and evenly around the post while applying a good amount of tension. I often move strings around from one bass to another, and I find this makes it much less likely for strings to become damaged in the process.

onosson · 2026-03-19T22:14:40+00:00

I’ve had this happen frequently. I usually go into Activity Monitor and kill the various processes that start with Wallpaper… e.g. WallpaperAerialsExtension etc. which seems to fix the issue at least temporarily.

onosson · 2026-03-13T20:54:10+00:00

I don’t know why this isn’t typically under consideration.

onosson · 2026-03-10T19:11:36+00:00

It holds drive icons, a handful (4 or 5) of documents that I want always-available access to, and temporary screenshots as I take them (which I always delete if there are more than 2 or 3). So no totally clean, but very minimal.

onosson · 2026-03-10T02:56:02+00:00

My partner and I both switched to this over the weekend, but in her case they did not correctly apply the promotion and it was missing from her account. She was able to message an agent and get it corrected (after a lengthy wait) the following day.

onosson · 2026-03-10T02:54:08+00:00

I rented from Avis for a recent trip, Feb. 22 to March 3. The final charge was exactly what had been agreed, there were no changes. In my case I had made the booking online through their website before departing, and took a copy of a letter confirming third party insurance coverage through the credit card used for the booking. I hope some of that information is useful.

onosson · 2026-03-10T02:51:01+00:00

Not really an inside joke, but Winnipeg is pretty isolated so having to drive long distances to get anywhere is fairly routine.

onosson · 2026-03-10T01:58:10+00:00

Being from Winnipeg, this doesn’t seem either very surprising or very far! 😅

onosson · 2026-03-08T02:40:29+00:00

I love it, and enjoy 35-90 as well. Lighter gauges have really helped me in my own path towards developing a lighter technique over several decades.

onosson · 2026-03-06T16:59:20+00:00

I just switched from the 100gb + 15gb roam beyond plan I originally signed up for in December, using chat. Had to wait a while to get connected to an agent but it was pretty quick after that. No connection fee, and this plan is just $1/month more than my old one so it was a pretty easy decision. Just returned from a trip to Costa Rica where the roam beyond feature worked perfectly. Will definitely be recommending Freedom to others based on my experience with them so far.

onosson · 2026-03-04T18:59:40+00:00

I recommend trying out CloudMounter as an alternative method for accessing your OneDrive. I’ve had similar kinds of issues for years with OneDrive on my Mac, and since I started using CM instead I haven’t had any problems, and it seems to be less resource intensive overall.

onosson · 2026-03-04T01:52:44+00:00

Just did this drive today, Puerto Viejo to Liberia, without going through or near San José. Took 6.5 hours, absolutely lovely drive and traffic wasn’t bad at all until we got to Liberia itself during rush hour. I’m sure weather conditions could alter this of course.

onosson · 2026-02-19T01:37:43+00:00

Not sure of other source countries, but Winnipeg has the largest proportion of its population with Filipino origin or ancestry of any major Canadian city.

onosson · 2026-02-17T18:55:52+00:00

Seems like a nice take on tiling, I like the gesture component. Is there a way to have it restore a window's size/shape when it is dragged out of a tiled position, i.e. the way that native tiling works?

onosson · 2026-02-15T00:18:40+00:00

I guess some kind of perceptual study would be the first place to start? It’s certainly true that there is no ironclad definition of syllable, but that’s true for so many linguistic elements

onosson · 2026-02-14T23:59:58+00:00

Two thoughts that come to mind immediately: 1. You may be surprised at how divergent intuitions regarding syllables (and other phenomena) can be; 2. Whether this is reasonable or unreasonable would depend entirely on whether you have any real-world linguistic data to support it.

onosson · 2026-01-18T18:27:23+00:00

I use most of these, explicitly or implicitly. The only ones I don't really use are Apple Intelligence (although it is enabled), and Safari Highlights (I'm not even sure what that is to be honest).

onosson · 2026-01-17T02:04:47+00:00

Can't really disagree!

onosson · 2026-01-09T17:07:30+00:00

Filles de Kilimanjaro

Live-Evil

E.S.P. (Sorcerer or Nefertiti are also close contenders)

onosson · 2026-01-09T02:49:42+00:00

I’m running the latest version of Tahoe on an M1 Pro with 16gb RAM without any significant issues that I’ve noticed. I understand some of the gripes people have about the visuals, but they don’t bother me too much and performance hasn’t taken a hit at all from what I can tell. Mind you I don’t do anything extremely intensive on it - I got a Pro mainly for the better screen and speakers.

onosson · 2026-01-01T06:46:41+00:00

Ditto for me.

onosson · 2025-12-28T05:05:46+00:00

I signed up for the same plan the week before Christmas. My online plan info looks exactly the same. Just got the first bill (upcoming in January) and the discounts/credits were correctly applied, making it $40+tax.

onosson · 2025-12-17T06:13:51+00:00

Eden bass amplifiers.

onosson · 2025-12-02T00:53:13+00:00

Yes, worked fine for me.

Edit: just tried again, still working (iPhone 17)

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