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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I love my electric drum set. Playing acoustic drums are LOUD. Like so loud that if anyone is in the house, they can’t watch TV or even have a conversation. And if you live in an apartment, forget about it. Electric drums get really expensive, but just being able to plug headphones in is invaluable.

    How I learned to play drums was actually by playing Rock Band and Guitar hero (the later ones had drums, too). It sounds silly, but it teaches you to move your limbs independently and some basic patterns that lots of drummers use. I haven’t tried this, but you might be able to connect a Rock Band drum set to your computer, and get a program to make it act like an electric drum set. It might be a decent starter kit. I think the Guitar Hero drums might be a little better for this, as they have dedicated cymbals and 6 total pads, compared to Rock Band’s 5 pads (including the bass pedal in both). Neither one has a hi-hat pedal, which is a shame. But it might be good enough for a beginner.






  • Not sure exactly what metric you are referring to for poor performance or in what conditions the mesh would achieve the poor performance you are referring to. As a former lead engineer on a mesh router system, I can assure you that mesh systems are capable of very high performance if done correctly and set up properly. Just about everyone uses them as far as I am aware. You wouldn’t have one wireless access point for a whole massive building.


  • This happened to me. It actually started with, “I accidentally told this wifi router salesman guy at a trade show that I would listen to his sales pitch. Now he’s coming to our office in an hour to give it. Can you sit in on the meeting with me so I’m not alone? You know a lot about wifi, right?”

    I didn’t even know what the meeting was about. I assumed he was trying to sell our office a wifi mesh system, which we already had. It wasn’t until about halfway through that I realized that he was trying to sell us these routers+source code so we could integrate them into our product line and resell them. And then I realized how many of our problems that would solve, so I started asking questions. Next thing I knew, I was the lead engineer on a wifi mesh system.

    It was a super fun project, though. And I got lots of raises and a title increase for taking it on.




  • The slider was probably the feature that I liked least about my OnePlus phones, and it was actually a factor in me deciding to not get a OnePlus phone again. Unlike the iPhone switch, which had an action that was perpendicular to the direction that my phone was moving when putting it into my pocket, the OnePlus phone’s slider was parallel to that movement. So the slider would change positions every time my phone would go into my pocket. I like my phone on vibrate 99.9% of the time, so I always needed it in the middle position, which was the hardest one to get it into. I always found myself wishing I could disable that feature, but I never found a way to.


  • I never liked the physical switch because I would switch it on accident. I want my phone on vibrate 99.9% of the time, so the switch is kind of wasted space, which is why I like the idea of the programmable button better than the switch.

    Android actually improved their silent/vibrate/ring switching a couple of years ago. You no longer need to go into the settings or even the quick settings. You just press one of the volume buttons, and a little pop-up comes up showing your volume level. On that pop-up, there’s a button to toggle the silent/vibrate/ring state. I think it’s easy enough, but you do need to have your screen on, which I could see defeating the purpose for people who use that feature a lot.



  • My wife had a mental health crisis last year where she could pretty much only scream and cry. For about 6 months, her life was only screaming and crying. She couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t eat. I mean, she ate, but it often involved gagging and forcing food down. At her worst, she went three whole days without sleep. We took her to the ER, and they basically just gave her Xanax and anti nausea medication to help her eat, then sent her home. Xanax helped in the moment but made everything 10x worse in the long run.

    After several months, we finally got an appointment with a psychiatrist and started trying different medications. It was a long and painful process to find the right one, and we had to change psychiatrists once because of laws in our area preventing online psychiatrists from prescribing certain medications. But we eventually found a psychiatrist and combination of medications that works for her. It took a few months of being on it for it to really start helping. But she’s doing very well. She started working again recently. She can run errands on her own. She can be left at home by herself.

    My answer is: see a psychiatrist.


  • I only pirate when the company makes it extremely hard for me to pay for the product or I would be paying for a worse product than if I pirated.

    For example, I watch a lot of hockey. The NHL has an idiotic system where I would need to pay for like 4 different services - including cable TV - to watch every game of my favorite team. They would all be in different places, so I would need to figure out where each game is being broadcast, then go to that service. Depending on the broadcaster, the quality may be finished (lower resolution or framerate). If I pirate the games, every game is on the same web page. Every game is 1080p at 60fps. I just click my bookmark and hit play when the game starts.

    I’m in a good place financially, and I want to financially support things that I like so I can get more things that I like. But if a company isn’t going to make a game available for me to buy, then it’s getting pirated (Nintendo, I’m looking at you).


  • I kinda got lucky. I wanted to install a new, bigger SSD. At the same time, I had been wanting to start doing backups, but was too lazy to set it up. Two birds, one stone. Set up backups, tested it by copying everything to the new SSD. Everything worked first try!

    I used rsnapshot for backups. I made a little container that spins up, pulls my data, then shuts down. And then I made a script that does that and made cron jobs for it.



  • which aspects you get smooth scrolling?

    All of it? It doesn’t stutter while scrolling. It just scrolls. Every other app, especially Jerboa stutters bad for me, and will randomly change where I am scrolled. The reddit app is the worst in this regard, but that’s a different site, obviously.

    I sometimes scroll in the main feed and it refreshes it completely

    I have never once seen that in Voyager, but I see it other apps.

    I did have an issue a while back where if a post was half on the screen and half not, when I would tap it, it would change my scroll position. But since I switched to compact view, that doesn’t happen anymore.

    I’m using the native app.

    Same