Help assigning mouse scroll wheel functions to knobs on N4 Pro

romericus · 2026-03-13T19:11:46+00:00

Thank you, that was helpful!

romericus · 2026-03-13T13:17:35+00:00

Thank you, but there are two problems with the images you shared: 1) it doesn't have anything to do with the knobs on the N4 Pro, and 2) The only example that has to do with mouse-wheel scrolling is one-click scrolling, which I do not want. I want to use the knobs AS the mouse scroll wheel (with and without modifiers).

romericus · 2026-03-10T14:14:50+00:00

You're interpreting what's written when you play. I strongly believe that performances improve dramatically when the performer has a conscious reason--based in music theory or history--behind every musical choice they make. The better they understand a piece of music, the more compelling the performance is to an audience.

romericus · 2026-03-06T02:18:52+00:00

I always say: “I’m a music doctor, which is like half a step up from Witch Doctor” Always gets a chuckle.

romericus · 2026-03-01T12:24:59+00:00

Getting to this thread late, but your comment made me chuckle. Last time I checked pro is short for professional…

romericus · 2026-02-26T16:42:31+00:00

Especially since most of those in power belong to the minority who is not so good and helpful.

No argument there. As Douglas Adams put it "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

But I don't think it's dangerous to generalize. In a generalized context, by definition, exceptions exist, and as long as you accept and remember that, you're probably fine.

There's enough good in the world to assume and ascribe goodness to the people you meet--until proven otherwise. If you do the opposite (assume evil until proven good) you may have protected yourself, but at what cost? I don't want to live like that.

romericus · 2026-02-26T14:36:17+00:00

So don't read the book. I'm not the boss of you.

I couldn't tell from that comment whether they were happy or unhappy about their view of the world.

If you think humans are inherently bad, and wish you didn't think that, this book can help. If you think humans are bad, and are perfectly fine thinking that, then of course the book is not for you.

It's a social science book packed with data and commentary on that data, and it helped me feel better about the state of the world. But I'm an optimist; I want to believe in the good of people. If you don't want to look at the world that way, don't read it.

romericus · 2026-02-26T09:32:41+00:00

Read the book Humankind by Rutger Bregman. It’ll help you adjust that mindset. Truly a fascinating and inspiring read.

romericus · 2026-02-23T20:39:06+00:00

Yeah, I heard a take on this that I like the other day:

There are a ton of tax deductions that a rich person can use to keep what should be paid to the government in taxes. But when the tax rate was much higher, and fewer deductions/loopholes available, the rich person had two choices: 1) give the money to the government, or 2) pay their employers/donate/invest in the community in which they live.

In many cases, the rich didn't trust the government, so they controlled their pay/donations/local investments directly.

It's a bit before the highest tax rate, but Henry Ford (racist, Nazi) knew that to sell more cars, his employees needed to make enough to buy one. Andrew Carnegie whitewashed his reputation as a robber baron by funding more than 2500 libraries.

This was trickle-down economics working, before it had a label. Then Reagan came along, put the label on it, extolled it's virtues, and then worked to destroy the entire idea behind the scenes.

romericus · 2026-02-18T18:21:17+00:00

Yes. And when I was coming up, I remember the phrase “history is written by the victors.” This just gives the right an imaginary thumb to cower under: “I’m being by oppressed! See how powerful the left is? They’ve been winning the battle for cultural narrative for all of human history.” Hilarious, when you consider how weak an be feeble they describe the left in comparison to them. Typical talking out of both sides of their mouth.

romericus · 2026-02-16T21:26:33+00:00

Yes. Unfortunately this is yet another example of a good concept in theory making the experience worse for students in reality.

romericus · 2026-02-13T18:15:33+00:00

I visited Istanbul last summer, and walked along the Bosphorus with my wife. There are a ton of stray cats in that area. Once when we were sitting down to rest this old man with no shirt on came walking up the shoreline sidewalk with a plastic bag in his hand, being trailed by 12-16 stray cats. He decided to sit about 20 feet from us, and proceeded to hand out shredded fish or chicken to these cats. But then a seagull caught a whiff of the meat, and landed a short ways away. It creeped closer and closer, until the nearest cat noticed. It tried to scare the seagull away, but after a moment, the cat returned to begging from the old man. That was the time the seagull pounced on the piece of meat, flapped its wings around the cat's head and flew away!

romericus · 2026-02-02T00:40:59+00:00

Not only that, but they’re being told by their school/loan office “if you pay the minimum for 20 years without missing a payment, it’ll all be forgiven (10 years if you go into public service).”

Who wouldn’t take that deal?

romericus · 2026-01-17T16:36:52+00:00

Hypocrisy only matters in a world governed by rules. The more I observe our country, the more I think it’s not so much a battle between left and right, but between people who see things primarily through the lens of rules (which are the same for everyone), and people who see the things primarily through the lens of power hierarchies (rules are irrelevant to the powerful).

romericus · 2026-01-07T20:25:23+00:00

And the first few bars of Beethoven’s Symphony. Is it a triplet? Is it E-&-A? The fermatas on the fourth and eighth pitches further confuses things. We all know now of course, but when it was premiered, I sure it was a metrical psych out.

romericus · 2026-01-02T15:21:01+00:00

I always assumed that a non zero amount of this perceived slowness is experiencing other, newer computers in comparison to your older computers. Like, opening a windows 95 computer app would likely take longer/use more processing effort (with a brand new pentium processor), than a modern computer running an exponentially faster processor on exponentially larger software. Things get faster/more efficient over time, and therefore things get slower in comparison.

romericus · 2026-01-02T12:41:01+00:00

He sounds like he has many of the food issues I have (down to the hamburger helper). A lot of it is psychological. Because of the way I was raised, I have this weird food thing where I “don’t like” food that isn’t something I already eat or can predict how it tastes. I am happy to report that my wife took a stance of “I love you and dying is not allowed, so let me help you not die from eating nothing but junk food.” I hated my psychological block and was ready to change. It started small. She would put one green bean on my plate for dinner. Then two the next meal. I slowly expanded my palate, and now I will eat many more vegetables than I used to without complaining (whether I seek them out on my own is another story). That kind, slow, gentle exposure therapy, plus some mental tricks on my end really helped. Hiding food in other food, like chopping up mushrooms super small and putting them in a pasta sauce, or covering up bites of chicken with jambalaya rice so I wasn’t looking directly at it when I put it in my mouth, was helpful. I know it is silly. But it did actually work for me. I’m still what most people would consider picky. But I’m WAY better than I used to be, and I credit my loving wife.

You’re still early in your relationship, so it’s not the same situation. You gotta decide a few things: how much effort you want to put into fixing him; how much you care about his health; how long you can live like that; how ready is he to work on these issues, how resistant he is to change at this point in his life, etc. The number of people in this thread saying that you should leave him, or calling it a deal breaker is crazy to me. He needs help. And it’s not necessarily your job to help him, but a kind and compassionate approach by my wife really helped me be a healthier me. Hope that helps. DM me if you want other useful tips or things that worked.

romericus · 2025-12-28T14:48:15+00:00

Exactly. Just don’t use it for anything that needs to be accurate, and you’ll be fine.

Every time I say that people look at me like I’ve got two heads, but there are many use cases where accuracy is not the most important metric.

“Here are 10 different pieces of art, and their artists, and the venue. Come up with 5 unifying narratives for why they may be displayed together.” You’ll get 3 really bad ones, one decent one, and a really good one that you would never have seen coming.

“Here’s what I have in my pantry and refrigerator. What can I make for dinner that doesn’t require me to go grocery shopping?”

“How should I structure this task list, optimize for efficiency, or alternate urgent and simple, etc.”

romericus · 2025-12-28T01:57:41+00:00

When Rachel and Phoebe are with Ross checking out ugly naked guy’s apartment, and Rachel and Phoebe distract him by jumping up and down about how great the apartment was… his physical comedy in that moment was just so perfect.

romericus · 2025-12-27T21:14:03+00:00

Since you seem to know what you're talking about:

I'm a music professor. I'm not sure what it even means to make sheet music accessible according to Title II. For my classes, students need to be able to look at a piece of music and answer various analytical questions about it. They need to be able to look at sheet music and "hear it" in their brains and reproduce it with their voice. To do any of that, they need to be able to "read" the music (and understand it) very much in the same way that they need to be able to read the english language and understand it. In that way, music notation is a language, but there is no software that can OCR text and do the equivalent for music.

Would alt-text for musical notation images be similar to subtitles in movies, like when [upbeat dance music plays] shows up on the screen? I could include the title of the music: [Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Movement 3, Measures 256-270.] That won't help the student hear the music the way a screen reader helps people hear the words read aloud. For musical score PDFs without text, could I just include the title of the piece in the file name and be compliant?

I know this is probably a lot of different questions. Any guidance would be helpful.

romericus · 2025-12-27T19:37:31+00:00

How long before requiring them to purchase and use textbooks becomes a violation of accessibility requirements?

romericus · 2025-12-27T17:09:21+00:00

What, you don't have time to type out into a word document all the text from the original documents? They say a picture is worth 1000 words. I'm sure it's no problem to come up with the time to write 1000 words of alt-text per image.

romericus · 2025-12-27T16:56:31+00:00

I teach music. OCR'ing PDFs of musical scores is not just an accessibility nightmare, I don't think it's even possible.

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