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What music do you use for concentration? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For years I was adamant that I didn't like ambient, I think because I'd only been exposed to very boring drone stuff. Then I discovered Solar Fields / Carbon Based Lifeforms and it changed my musical world.

I'm quite horrible at self-promo so sadly it's just gathering digital dust, but after 20+ years of writing dance music for myself and others, I decided to get heavily into writing ambient / chill. Made a load of trippy animation videos and setup a youtube... if you love Solar Fields, without meaning to sound bigheaded I think you'd enjoy them.

Ambient / Chill by Ain

What music do you use for concentration? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love anything by Solar Fields for tasks requiring concentrating, it's especially good for reading scifi.

Whenever he releases a new album though I have to listen to it a few times, before I can have it on in the background... It's very beautiful and intricate.

What music do you use for concentration? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yep has to have no lyrics or I get pulled into the song!

What is your motto? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"Don't say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn't be prepared to say it to their face"

What did you have to learn the hard way? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

I learned not to say things about people behind their back, that you'd not be prepared to say to their face, aged 14.

Cost me a black eye & split lip, also some pride. Valuable lesson though that stuck with me to this day over 2 decades later.

Knoble, sorry for calling you Knobless.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'm the same. I've got DDG set as my default search, if the results aren't useful then I go to google as backup.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

Is it just me, or has autocorrect on phones also gotten way, way worse? When would I ever want to type 'thbnks'?

Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Spotify iirc pays $0.003 per stream, so for 80m streams he's got $24,000.

If he's got less than that then he should be directing ire at his label or publisher.

An army of 100 million bots and deepfakes—buckle up for AI’s crash landing in the 2024 election in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

We are as unready for this shit as we were for social media.

Genuinely concerned this will tip the balance enough for trump to win.

Edit: (What do you call this dish?) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bregg

Another reason for piracy. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I see what you did there ;)

Another reason for piracy. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess, I just don't see many people getting something for free then deciding to go buy it out of the goodness of their heart... maybe I'm too pessimistic.

I try not to pirate music production software because I make some small money from my music, and I've personally seen companies go bust and get snapped up by Apple because everyone (me included) justified pirating their small plugins as "they're making lots of money anyway". But I justify pirating shit like Adobe to myself I hate paying a subscription to use software. I dunno maybe more people have this mindset than I realise and are happy to pay after 'trying before buying'.

I'm interested to hear responses from anyone who genuinely buys the music they enjoy after pirating it. Why would they not just buy it in the first place?

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1st time house buyer, potentially serious structural issues found... anyone have advice re negotiating price reduction / if I should pull out? (lemmy.world)
 

Hey all.

Finally in my 40s I'm fortunate enough (with a lot of family help & a mortgage) to be buying a home. It's end-of-terrace; just spoke to the surveyor today after he's done most of the inspection and he's found a lot of structural problems.

Feeling a bit defeated, it's taken so long to get to this stage of having an offer accepted, and being close to exchanging contracts. It's an old house so while I wasn't expecting it to be fault-free, I'm quite disappointed and I guess looking for some advice / reassurance.

Not got the report in text yet but he mentioned potential subsidence; rising damp; cracked walls; problem with the chimney stack; window frames; and others. Said it's all stuff that can be fixed, but potentially expensive. My plan is to wait for the text report next week, then contact the estate agent and attempt to negotiate a price reduction in line with the cost of the repairs, which imo will run into at least £15k. Considering it's on the market for £85k, and the owner wouldn't even put the electric on for viewing because she didn't want to pay £1 a day standing charge, I'm anticipating some pushback.

But, should I even bother? Is this 'sunk cost fallacy' at play? I certainly feel like if they're not prepared to negotiate re repairs then I have to walk away as I could buy a well-maintained property round here for the total cost of around £100k!

Any advice much appreciated.

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Aphantasia... apparently 3% of the world has it. Any aphantasists in here, who've had success improving their condition? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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10 years ago, I'd have put my ability to visualise at 0 out of 10. Practice and occasional halucinogen use has got me to 2 out of 10. It causes no end of problems in day to day life, so I'm interested to hear if anyone has tips or just experiences to share so it doesn't feel such a lonely frustrating issue.

edit informative comment from @[email protected] about image streaming, I did a bit of digging on the broken links, the Dr isn't giving the info away for free anymore without buying their (expensive) book, but I found some further info on additional techniques here, pages 2/3: https://nlpcourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Image-Streaming-Mode-of-Thinking.pdf

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Dark mode themes for qbittorrent (lemmy.world)
 

Heya all. As per title, I'm looking for a good dark theme for qbittorrent. So far I've tried three (MumbleDark, Dracula, DarkStyleSheet), and they all have black text on dark grey background for unselected torrents.

This, imo, is about as clever as going 4000m underwater in a rinkydink submersible that's barely rated for 2000m. Surely someone wouldn't go to the trouble of creating a dark mode, with black text on dark grey. Wondering if it's something to do with my windows 10 setup, or just how it's designed... can anyone direct me to one that doesn't have this 'feature' or solve why this happens? Help much appreciated!

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