I used yunohost for a bit and while it was easy setup, it wasn’t easy to troubleshoot weird errors because hardly anyone uses it.

I’d recommend setting up:

• debian with a desktop environment to start with
• figure out how to ssh into it from your main machine and maybe how to use tmux
• docker and how docker works
• self-hosting services using docker

Yeah same, we’re just early adopters.

I don’t think there even were other instances back then.

Ethan Chlebowski has a cool video on how to meal prep if you hate meal prepping, a really flexible way if you don’t want to decide what you’re eating each day for a whole week.

Basically you braise a fuck load of meat on Sunday, which just means stick it in water in the oven for at least 5 hours (I generally do chicken thighs or beef ribs) and then shred it and put it in a container in the fridge. Then you make whatever you feel like on the day but because you’ve already done the meat, it generally takes 10mins or less to cook anything.

On a lazy day I’ll get a packet of instant ramen, some spinach and brocoli and throw it all in a pot with a decent serving of the shredded meat and that’s a meal in less than 10mins.

If I’m feeling like a bit more work, I’ll make the tinga recipe from that video and a fat bastard burrito with all the trimmings.

In between I might make some kind of pasta ragu with a pre-made sauce and then have a punnet of berries afterwards to make it a bit healthier.

Unfortunately no, audio files are actually really dumb in that they’re basically just a file of 44100 (or 48000 or 96000 etc) amplitude numbers per second.

So there’s nothing really to diff because it’s basically just a squiggly line, set of squiggly lines or, when compressed, a mathematical expression that when decompressed, recreates a squiggly line.

You could isolate the dialog if you got ahold of a version with no dialog at all and then inverse the polarity of that and sum it with the original but it’s unlikely you’ll find a version without any vocals.

Machine learning vocal isolation tools are probably going to be the best way to go about it as a DIY approach. Ultimate Vocal Remover 5 with the demucs 4 algo is great FOSS software to extract vocals and you could sum that with the original track and adjust the gain to get louder dialogue… it would be a lot of work though…

I don’t know why they don’t, I work in music rather than TV/Film but it infuriated me too! Give me a voice volume control! It would be technically very easy to do implement as a standard but the powers that be just haven’t come together and done it!

As an audio engineer, this suggestion makes my skin crawl.

Don’t apply any extra compression to your files this, it will ruin them.

Modern audio streaming services and good audio players use loudness normalization to achieve consistent playback loudness. The way they do this is by measuring the integrated loudness of each song and increasing or, in most cases, reducing the playback gain of the song to an arbitrary target (e.g. Spotify has chosen -14LUFS which is pretty quiet when you consider most pop music is mastered to somewhere between -10LUFS and -3LUFS).

OP should just find a better audio player or figure out how to enable loudness normalization.

Yeah at least they’re generally the weight they say they are

Yep and they made it that way on a lot of DVDs!

Thanks for explaining this all! Super interesting thing that I knew existed but had no idea how it worked! Makes a lot of sense!

I third this, had mine for years, magnetic box is great, all the little plastic shimmy things are great. Solid quality.

supraliminal

Thanks for my word of the day!

It’s really weird reading your comment because it reads as if I wrote it.

• I do pro audio work in Logic & Ableton
• Was syncing projects between my desktop, laptop and homelab for a few years
• No longer need to with my M3 Max macbook
• Am a nerd power user and sync my dotfiles between my machines (i’d recommend chez-moi instead of syncthing for that because there’s less risk of messing up a machine and conflicts)

What kind of audio stuff do you do?

Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine. Even if you can figure out who asked the right question and when, you have to trawl through a sea of inane garbled chat to get to the developer/expert response.

Specialised topic forums really need to make a resurgence but I doubt they will.

That’s not how companies are measured against each other though. How are you even quantifying the cultural impact? You could have said many companies are bigger than Apple because they have a bigger physical footprint, bigger customer base, larger number of staff, bigger area of operation, larger mass of product or many other things but the fact is when we compare the “size” of companies, we are referring to their market cap.

All 3 of those are smaller than Apple. The only 2 companies with bigger market caps than Apple are Nvidia and Microsoft.

I just took my first pill and now I’m Superman

I wrote this a while ago for people who are feeling like you. I’ll copy it below so you don’t have to follow the link but it might be worth checking out the discussions in the comments.

—-

Just a word of warning to everyone just starting their meds. This euphoria you’re feeling in your first week or even month isn’t going to last. You’re high right now because of all the new chemicals that haven’t become the norm yet.

This will eventually calm down and that’s completely normal, it doesn’t mean you need to rush to up your dose or switch meds (I’m not saying don’t do these things as recommended by your doc).

Make the most out of this time but don’t kick yourself if you’re not as productive a month from now when the high is gone and your energy levels get closer to normal.

The more profound effect of the meds will still be there to help you focus and function but feeling the pill kick in like a rocket up your arse won’t. The crazy unending motivation to be productive won’t either and that’s on you to keep up when the high dies down. Use this time to change some of your habits and build a routine that will last.

Another thing to remember as this all normalises in your brain is that you will feel more ADHD than you ever have when you don’t take your meds. When you find yourself having forgotten to take your pill or taking a break from it, that isn’t how you were before you started your meds, it’s all super exaggerated. Brain fog will be 110% cumulonimbus, you’ll likely not have the focus to pay attention to a 10 minute youtube video and you may want to eat a planet. Don’t start thinking this was how you were before meds and treat the meds like a crutch because that’s not what they’re there for.

They help with focus and that’s all they should do.

If you catch yourself wanting to take more than you should to get that high back then stop and have a long hard think about it before you do because that’s a slippery slope to substance abuse.

It honestly winds me up that this sub upvotes all the “I just took my first pill and now I’m superman” posts. That’s not how this works and it doesn’t last.

Neurotypical people don’t leap out of bed every morning thinking they’re going to conquer the world in 10 minutes flat. That’s just the initial high and we should warn people about it.

Pretty sure zoxide automatically uses “z” as its alias by default. One less letter for you to type.

Copyparty looks like awesome software that I have absolutely no use for nor the time to set it up but I still want it haha. The video demonstration was really impressive if you haven’t seen it yet.

(btw It’s pique not peak)

I am of the firm belief that most people should not live by themselves. We are social creatures and the notion that we should be immediately independent and solitary as soon as we can afford to is completely crazy.

My advice in the short term would be to try to fill your evenings and weekends with as many visits to friends as possible and in the longer term keep a lookout for possible shared accommodation with some people you get on well with.

Damn tasty username right there