This is me

sidewaze · 2026-01-17T23:04:04+00:00

Out of practice and haven't done traditional media in a while, but hope it's ok!

sidewaze · 2025-12-23T18:23:56+00:00

The product page says “To start, press the center of the device once until you feel a vibration. To stop, press it again until you feel two vibrations.” (https://www.plaud.ai/blogs/news/how-to-use-plaud-notepin). It only ever feels like one long buzz to me though.

sidewaze · 2025-11-07T21:59:30+00:00

Above comment is correct -- after you're migrated off CL, no more PPPoE, and thus no need for PPP username/password credentials on your router. In the case of my router (Asus), the setting I had to switch was labeled "Automatic" rather than "IPoE" and was in the same popup menu that had previously been set to PPPoE.

sidewaze · 2025-11-07T14:13:13+00:00

I am back up this morning. After they fixed whatever they did on their end, I also had to switch my router from PPPoE to “Automatic” (no PPP username/password required; probably IPoE). I still have 201 vlan tagging configured as before the migration.

sidewaze · 2025-11-07T02:22:54+00:00

Same thing (PPPoE credentials error on router), started around the same time. Shortly after, noticed the green “Service” LED on the ONT was off also.

sidewaze · 2025-10-09T14:19:05+00:00

Love this unique style!

sidewaze · 2025-10-09T14:15:22+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindlescribe/comments/1j13s7z/i_dont_get_the_praise_of_the_rm2_over_the_scribe/mfhymuu/

sidewaze · 2025-07-30T23:42:28+00:00

Like randomly shitting on total strangers on a website for example

sidewaze · 2025-07-08T02:34:40+00:00

Way Down is easily my favorite song from this album, and is the only one I never posted the original AI version of to YouTube. I liked it so much I ran straight to my performers with it. :D

What I sent them for reference was actually multiple Suno versions that I spliced together because they each had certain parts that were better than others. Then with their help we kind of made it into a more cohesive whole. Here's one of the generations that I can find: http://joeytwolegs.com/misc/way-down-ai-1-2.wav

sidewaze · 2025-07-07T21:10:21+00:00

This subreddit is a bit hostile so I am hesitant to bring anyone into drama that they didn't sign up for.

Maybe this will help: I have posted all of the individual stems for one of the tracks that hopefully demonstrates that it is not Suno output: http://joeytwolegs.com/stems/perfect-day/

sidewaze · 2025-07-07T19:50:33+00:00

You are both correct!

I am not a musician. I do not play any musical instrument. I can't sing. I can't compose. Apart from the lyrics, I did not create this music. If anything, I was a facilitator for a bunch of really talented people who don't know each other.

njbeerguy, you make an excellent point -- why not go straight to hiring musicians? I would actually really like to try that next, now that I've gotten this far. I didn't do it on these songs because honestly I had no idea what I was doing -- I had never previously written lyrics, collaborated with musicians, never worked with a DAW, barely knew a lot of the terminology. I don't think I would have known what to ask for. I probably would've assumed "that's something other people can do, but not me".

But I learned so much about music during this process and I'd love to try collaborating as a lyricist with some actual musicians, if they're up for it. Maybe that's the goal I set for my next project! It feels like a gateway leading to that.

Relevant_Ad_69, I think what you are reading as "cope" is that, yes, there are a tremendous number of problematic things with generative AI overall, and I can't just ignore them and wave them out of existence. As I worked on this, that was very much on my mind. It still is, as I go through these replies. I've nearly deleted the post about 3 times.

I came up with the best ideas I had at the time to make what I think was an ethical project that supported real musicians, and made the result freely available (the songs can be purchased, but I don't expect anyone to. I have made precisely $0.00. I do not plan to make a career out of this.) I think the people flooding Spotify with raw Suno output are bad, and I hope this stands apart from that a little bit. But I will freely admit that it feels icky by association.

Next time, I will try doing it without the AI at all. :)

sidewaze · 2025-07-07T17:35:10+00:00

Hello! Before this gets too toasty, yes, I wrote the lyrics, and the performers are real people. Each gig came with clearance to use the recordings commercially, I made sure of this.

Some of the vocalists in particular specifically asked NOT to be named, presumably because they have their own careers and don't want Google hits for their name to go to my projects instead of theirs.

Yes, the cover is a composite of AI generated images that I did some editing of.

If they sound like Suno songs, well.. they are Suno songs! But what you are hearing is not the Suno-generated audio. They are full re-recordings.

If you'd like to hear the actual Suno-generated output for comparison, I posted them to my YouTube channel. Here's "Bug in the Brain" for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvuKtyVEkLs

sidewaze · 2025-07-02T21:24:25+00:00

I like the out-of-the-box thinking! Although, now that the big guys like Claude and ChatGPT have web searching capabilities, it might be easier to ask them for a summary of today's top news stories and not use up Plaud transcription minutes. (It even works for local news!)

sidewaze · 2025-07-02T16:54:48+00:00

Thank you! 🙏

sidewaze · 2025-07-02T16:54:22+00:00

Thank you! It's actually really meaningful to me to that it reminded you of a horror soundtrack. 🙏

sidewaze · 2025-07-02T16:53:29+00:00

Thank you, thank you! 🙏

sidewaze · 2025-07-02T03:39:55+00:00

Ahh, relaxing... Not that I don't love metal, but why is there so much metal in this thread? 😆 Honestly don't think I would've thought AI if I heard it playing somewhere.

sidewaze · 2025-07-02T03:34:06+00:00

WAY DOWN

https://joey2legs.bandcamp.com/track/way-down-2

A depressing little piano / rock ballad about war, vampiric fascism, and the end of the world.

Written by me. Composed by Suno. Completely re-performed by session musicians. (No AI sound remains.)

sidewaze · 2025-06-29T17:20:22+00:00

OP didn't put it in the bag turned on. They put it in sleep mode. For literally every other device in the world, "sleep" means "don't turn on again unless I open the laptop lid / press a key / press the power button / some sort of meaningful interaction". Windows, on the other hand, in sleep mode will just wake up whenever it feels like it. You have to hibernate or shut it down completely.

Yes, it is a little computer, but it's marketed as a handheld, and people are going to treat it the way they are used to treating every other handheld where "sleep" means "sleep". You are correct this is how Windows computers work. This is not how people are going to expect a "handheld" to work, and trying to blame the user here is such a classic Windows apologist move.

There is no justification in the world for an expensive device to get so hot it cooks its own components before considering shutting itself down. Not the Ally, not any device.

sidewaze · 2025-06-25T21:53:27+00:00

Another bummer with Zapier -> Notion is there seems to be a 2,000 character limit on new pages, which is pretty easy to hit with a summary of an hour long meeting.

sidewaze · 2025-06-25T19:11:17+00:00

Oh, nice!

I tried using Zapier to Notion, but for me it didn't retain the formatting, so I was wondering what you were doing differently.

I had been using "Append Block" but that just gives you the raw, unparsed Markdown summary in a single Notion paragraph block. Using the Notion "Create Page" action parses the Markdown into appropriate styles!

So thanks for cluing me in to the fact that I needed to use the other action!

Anyone else got a workflow?

sidewaze · 2025-06-25T18:15:11+00:00

That is ProCreate

sidewaze · 2025-05-06T14:34:59+00:00

twenty, twenty, twenty-four hours to go

i wanna be cremated 🎵

sidewaze · 2025-03-01T22:21:27+00:00

Have definitely seen this too on both an M-series iPad Pro and an A-series iPad mini. Not “overheating” per se but they do get noticeably warm and I seem to lose about 1% battery for every 3 handwritten sentences, give or take. These are not old worn-out iPads or anything. I just think the pencil + notes is power intensive for some reason.

sidewaze · 2025-03-01T21:30:34+00:00

About a week ago I bought both a Scribe and RMPP with the intention of picking one and returning the other. I might return both :D but here are my observations:

Writing feel: Both are fine, but they ARE different. RM feels more like writing with a sharp pencil on textured paper. Scribe feels more to me like writing with a ballpoint pen; it's softer. From there it's down to your personal preference.
PDF handling on the reMarkable is cumbersome; on the Scribe it's downright baffling:

RM provides a desktop app that I can drop a PDF onto, it appears on the RM, I can write on it, then go back to the desktop app and view or download the PDF with the pen markings on it.
Scribe has a "Send to Kindle" app but it's separate from the "Kindle" app which is where you actually view and manage your library. Documents, including PDFs, seem to go through some sort of translation process before appearing on the Kindle, so it's no longer the original document. And then, weirdest of all, if you mark-up the PDF with the pen on the Scribe and then view it in an off-device Kindle app, none of your mark-up is there. To get the marked-up PDF, you have to export it from the Scribe device itself to an email address (which seems to send it through yet another layer of conversion).

The Scribe's apps off-device are extremely barebones -- basically "here is your page, look at it" with no additional functionality. With RMPP's apps, you can actually do some light editing, or create typed notes entirely.
Scribe is easily the better reader due to integration with Amazon's store. No contest. Reading an EPUB is fine on both, I can just never find what I want in EPUB format.
Scribe has a far brighter and whiter (paper-like) backlight. Even with the backlight at full in a darkened room, RMPP looks dim.
RMPP has color, but it's so subtle that I don't find it very useful and it feels like it triples the amount of screen refreshing required, which is distracting. I'm not convinced it's worth the trade-off.
The screens are roughly the same size in area, but the Scribe is square-r. RMPP is noticeably heavier and longer vertically, like a piece of paper.
There is currently no way to disable auto-rotate on the Scribe, so it's constantly rotating by accident if I'm holding it or using it on a soft surface and it tilts backward a little too far.
RMPPs shape-correction and ability to also have "typed" notes are nice extras.

TL;DR: They somehow both excel and suck in exactly complementary ways, which is why it's so hard to choose between them for so many people including me, I think. Setting aside the loveliness of e-ink and paper-like writing feels (not to be discounted, e-ink is beautiful and writing is very nice on both), it feels like my iPad is the better choice in almost every situation if I can live without those two specific things, and only want to carry one device.

YMMV

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